BAR CODE PRINTING OPTIONS FOR SAP END USERS

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Under Category : Tutorial Programming SAP
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. base of bar code label printers, and the amount of SAP programming and support . it can print bar codes with no additional middleware or programming required. .

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Producing bar code output from the SAP ® environment has traditionally been challenging. The specialized, rugged printers used for printing bar code labels on production lines, warehouses, shipping docks, and other industrialenvironments use different command languages than the office printers supported by SAP software. Middlewareor printer-specific SAPscript was always needed to get the bar code printer to recognize SAP output. In 2004, SAP simplified what formerly had been a complex task for its customers by including native bar codeprinting capability in its software, and including a true bar code printer driver for the first time. The functionalityis available for mySAP™ Business Suite versions 4.6c and higher, included with Smart Forms, and included inthe new Interactive Forms product, which is based on Adobe ® software co-developed with Adobe Systems. Interactive Forms is part of the new SAP NetWeaver™ platform. The bar code printer control language SAPchose to embed in its products is Zebra Printer Language (ZPL ® ) from Zebra Technologies. That means Zebra ® printers can print labels with data from SAP applications right out of the box with no additional software,drivers, print servers or programming required. ZPL joins PostScript ® and PCL ® as the only printer languages native to SAP

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