You are looking at an old Manual of pc/MRP, the Complete MRP Inventory/Accounting Package. Please click below for the latest pc/MRP Manual Please click below to reach the pc/MRP Main Page 16.4.1 Overview Bar coding increases efficiency and inventory control accuracy. A retailer from a large grocery chain once remarked, 'We are on such tight margins, with so little room for error; we do not trust clerks to enter $6.95 let alone an 18 character part number'. To print bar coded labels you will need to purchase a True Type Bar Code Font. To read the bar coded labels you will need to purchase a bar code wand.
For instance,BC C39 3 to 1 Medium. The scanner could scan barcode 39 fine. Recently, we want to switch to barcode 128, so I simply changed the font from BC C39 3 to 1 Medium to IDAutomationC128S. After I switch it, the scanner can no longer read the barcode. Note taht the scanner will auto configure to read 128. 51 Professional BC C39 2 To 1 Narrow Fonts to Download Please note: If you want to create professional printout, you should consider a commercial font. Free fonts often have not all characters and signs, and have no kerning pairs (Avenue ↔ A venue, Tea ↔ T ea).
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16.4.2 Wedge Type Bar Code Wands pc/MRP will work out of the box with any wedge type barcode reader. A wedge type bar code reader is defined as a bar code reader that inserts itself in between the computer key board and the CPU unit (i.e. The keyboard plugs into the wedge bar code reader and the wedge is plugged into the computer's keyboard connector). John milne washington dc. The computer will then read any input from either the wand or the keyboard. 16.4.3 Portable Bar Code Wands Portable bar code wands can be used to take a physical inventory and then later download the part numbers and quantities from the portable barcode wand's docking station into pc/MRP's physical inventory program. The portable bar code wand must be programmed that it can download a comma delimited ASCII text file named physical.txt into the pcmrpw directory.
The file must consist of part numbers and quantities separated by commas and line returns as shown below: 000000001,00010,00000,03,100.00 The Percon 2000 can be programmed to provide such an output. However, you or one of your programmers must create the program.
16.4.3.1 UniTech’s PT630 Bar Code Scanner Unitech's PT630 comes with a program for pc/MRP built in. To take an inventory with the PT630 follow the steps listed below: 1. Turn on the PT630 2. Select Option 2 for Terminal from the Menu 3. Select Option 2 again for Form caching 4.