Zebra Technologies SAP R/3 - Manual (Page 4)

BAR-ONE for SAP R/3
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How It Works
Excluding middle-ware and BAR-ONE for SAP R/3, forms would
traditionally be designed by manually writing SAPscript commands.
SAPscript then requires that you have a proprietary SAP R/3 printer
driver loaded for your target device. This approach does not work for
barcode label printing due to the following:
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SAP R/3 has drivers for mainstream office printers but not
barcode label printers.
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SAP R/3 drivers are designed for forms & report printing, not
barcode labels.
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SAPscript barcode commands are complex, support few
symbologies and have basically been built as fonts. They also
provide poor support for rotation, check-digits, narrow bar width,
ratio, and are not supported by any specialty barcode label printer
(other than via emulation such as PCL etc.).
SAP R/3 also supports printing with Windows drivers via the SAPWin
device type and SAPlpd. This approach does not work for barcode
label printing and specialty barcode label printers due to the following:
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SAPWin device type has no support for barcode label printer
features such as barcodes, cutter, flash memory, print speeds and
darkness etc.
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SAPWin device type and barcode label Windows printer drivers
may send the entire label down as a graphic and need to do this
for every label with variable data (slow printing and lots of
network traffic).
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SAPscript barcodes are not supported with the SAPwin device
type, unless you source a 3 rd party barcode DLL. These barcodes
are downloaded as bitmap objects via Windows drivers. This can
reduce performance and barcode accuracy (it’s also expensive).
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SAPWin does not support printing directly from the server to the
printer (SAPlpd must be used).
BAR-ONE for SAP R/3 is a graphical barcode label design tool that
generates SAPscript for use with Zebra printers. This means the user
does not need to manually program SAPscript to design or print labels.
SAP has built Zebra device types for SAP R/3. These drivers are
optimized for use with BAR-ONE for SAP R/3.
All SAP printer
drivers are built for
forms printing on
mainstream office
printers
BAR-ONE for SAP
R/3 is a graphical
SAPscript generator