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Instant bar code
Bar codes were mounted earlier traditionally than film on the final pressure presentations. By the increasingly digital work routines and workflows there are since some time cash code programmes which provide bar code symbols digitally which can be placed afterwards as graphics in layout or illustration programmes. The film assembly is cancelled with it of course completely what also leads to a higher quality in the production process.
However, how are bar codes checked today? Still from "film times" exist bar code Verifiziergeräte which scan a film pattern or a pressure and give to you by evaluation report the divergences of the beams and gaps in comparison to the rated values of the respective cash code system. This way is very laborious with production processes without film of course and a pressure interrupts the production every time considerably.
Because more and more workflows run off digitally and get by with it without film, the step is obvious that also bar codes must be digital provideable and checkable. Now exactly this is possible for bar code from the house Enfocus with the Instant. Instant bar code is a plug in for Adobe illustrator (Mac or Windows) with which to themselves bar codes generate in most current cash code systems and also check up afterwards.
What is Instant a bar code
Instant bar code is an Adobe illustrator plug in for MacOS or Windows
The plug in allows the production of bar codes in the systems EAN 8, EAN 13 (with 2 or 5 figure Add On to code), code 128, UPC/A, UPC/E, ITF, ITF 14, UCC/EAN 128, code 39, ISBN 10 and ISBN 13 (Bookland), ISSN, Plessey (CRC), MSI, Codabar, Belgian Pharma and Mark & Spencer 7B. Besides, bar codes check up themselves directly in Adobe illustrator and with industrial rated values compare. Divergences of these are indicated immediately.
Why is the check important?
Bar codes carry important information in coding form in themselves which machine readably (cash code readers or scanners) are. They all know bar codes of a huge number of articles of the everyday use, but also from medicament packaging, to security systems etc. you can imagine that a mistake or a mistake can lead with the production of a bar code easily to the fact that this code is not recognised by readers later. The effects can be fatal. Cash code symbols are very sensitive things which must be reproduced within certain tolerance borders and can control themselves by means of built in intelligent test mechanisms (e.g., systems with test figures). Whether the code is readable or not, can be predicted actually, however, only by an exact check of the code in comparison to rated values. And moreover you have with Instant bar code exactly the right tools.
As functioned Instant bar code
To check a bar code, call either in Adobe illustrator the file in what your bar code was used. Move with the cash code tools once completely about the beams and gaps. As a result the code kind (e.g., EAN 13), the coding data, the size (Skalierung) and beam height of the bar code, the beam width reduction (to the balance of the sound appreciation of value divides to you Instant bar code in a dialogue window with the later pressure) as well as the divergence of the rated values for the recognised code in.
Additional functions with the cash code production
Instant bar code can be called within Adobe illustrator and offers you a quick and easy production of bar codes in o.g. To systems. They can store these codes as illustrators EP and import in other layout programmes or form your layout directly in Adobe illustrator. Instant bar code disposes of built in plausibility check and as a result shows you if a code was not given, e.g., correctly or completely. After successful input of the code system and the number to be encoded the cash code graphics are generated and can be processed with all illustrators tools and options (colour, rotation, position, text font etc.).
As additional options the following cash code options are available to you:
Balkenbreiten Reduktion (for compensating for of the sound appreciation of value in the pressure)
Skalierung
beam height (optional proportional Skalierung)
Breit and narrow relation with suitable code systems with variable beam width relation (e.g., code 39)
coprinting the limitation signs (white space)
Pressure of colour carrier beam (with and without final beam)
Centring of visible text
Convert text into sign paths
Skalierung of text
A demo version of Instant a bar code is for MacOSX, as well as under Windows for Adobe illustrator Generate CS and CS2 (and checking of bar codes) available. |
