BarDIMM Pro & BarDIMM Box – Intelligent Barcode Printing System
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1- Introduction
Barcode technology provides an easy, inexpensive and highly accurate means of data entry
and storage for computerized information management systems.
Item identification information (e.g., inventory control, work-in-process tracking,
distribution tracking, and other materiel management) is the most common type of data
stored in bar code systems.
The BarDIMM Pro products are intelligent modules adding sophisticated BARCODE
printing and fonts/macro/logos storage capabilities to a range of printers. BarDIMM Box
can be attached to any network or USB printer with PCL5 language compatibility.
BarDIMM Pro modules can be plugged inside most HP LaserJet and HP Business Ink Jet
printers. With BarDIMM Pro and BarDIMM Box, it never has been so easy and so fast to
print professional barcodes!
The full list of supported printers with minimum printer firmware requirement is
available on
BarDIMM Pro and BarDIMM Box support complex high-density two-dimensional
barcodes like PDF417 and UPS MaxiCode, Data Matrix, QRCode, Aztec and Codablock.
Two dimension means the reading is performed both horizontally and vertically as
information is encoded in both directions. Those barcodes are then designated as “ 2D
Barcodes ”, and non-2D barcodes are called “ 1D Barcodes ”. Some 2D barcodes can
encode up to dozen of kilobytes of data, with features like data compression, macro-
barcodes, encryption and error correction algorithms.
BarDIMM Pro and BarDIMM Box include the standard HP Barcode & More
cartridge/SIMM fonts. As a result, OCR-A and OCR-B characters are available and there
is then backward compatibility with older applications as well as HP Barcode&More
printer drivers.
A complete set of fully scalable symbols is included:
- The EURO symbol
€
(the European currency symbol)
- Safety symbols, electronic and manufacturing symbols to include in labels printing
BarDIMM Pro also features the Freescape system. With Freescape, the Escape code can
have a synonym, a user-defined Escape Code or Alternate Escape Code (AEC). That
character acts exactly like the standard Escape Code when found at the beginning of a
regular PCL sequence, and can be a printable character. This functionality does allow all
systems to use PCL and BarDIMM Pro, even if they cannot send binary data to a printer.
BarDIMM Pro also features 3MB of permanent flash disk storage, to store forms, fonts,
macros and logos in the printer. That storage can be managed using the latest version of hp
Web JetAdmin or special tools like the third party “Forms&Fonts Manager” software.
