OK, Now you made my day. "Cultural Resistance" is an understatement here.
Changing the color of the Shipping Department's desktop, is enough to bring
things to a screeching halt... : ) Les
Changing the color of the Shipping Department's desktop, is enough to bring
things to a screeching halt... : ) Les
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shirley Graver [SMTP:shirleyg@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:42 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Bar Codes
>
> What I've done is looked at everything done in Zebra. I found that 80%
> were
> a standard format, so I created the standard format and will run samples
> for customer approval before we switch over. There's going to have to be
> some discipline added to the shipping department because they aren't going
> to be able to slop the data around like they've been able to do in the
> past.
> This won't be an instant transition and it won't be necessarily easy.
> "Cultural Resistance" is going to rear its ugly head. For those
> customers
> that require "Special" I'll have to do another RB format. I'm going to
> try
> and keep it to 2 buttons, one for the "Standard" and an elegant way for
> each
> customer to get their special.
>
> Shirley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les Tingley [mailto:ltingley@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Bar Codes
>
>
> Hi Shirley,
> Are you recreating all of your Wasp Labels for the Zebra, or have you
> found
> a way to convert them into the correct format?
>
> Les
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shirley Graver [SMTP:shirleyg@...]
> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 9:43 AM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: RE: [Vantage] [OT] Bar Codes
> >
> > We have Zebra's Z4M. We will be generating our barcodes out of
> Vantage.
> > We've commissioned some mild programing to allow a Report Builder
> Report
> > to
> > be run from a button click without any further user interaction. We
> are
> > converting over from Wasp Labeler. So far testing shows that this
> will
> > work
> > quite nicely. For those interested in the programing should contact
> Rick
> > Lane off list. I've already found a bunch of uses for Report builder
> > reports from a VB button. I'll also share my report builder report
> that
> I
> > use for generating the the AIAG lables. My plan is to have a button
> for
> > the
> > generic standard barcode and add buttons for those customers that want
> a
> > particular format. This would be done from the shipping detail VB.
> So
> > far
> > I'm able to pull what ever data I need with special fields for special
> > data
> > with some careful report building.
> >
> > Shirley Graver
> > Systems Administrator
> > Rubber Associates Inc.
> > Cleveland/Akron, OH
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lptingley [mailto:ltingley@...]
> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 9:22 AM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Bar Codes
> >
> >
> > I recently purchased a Zebra 105Se, and now face the prospect of
> > having to recreate all our Customer barcode labels. The labels were
> > all created in software that comes with the Sato Lable printers.
> Most
> > of these labels require user prompts. I'm not an expert at
> barcoding,
> > and was hoping that somebody could tell me if it's possible to
> create
> > labels (with user prompts) that would be compatible with most label
> > printers? I wouldn't want to do this again, if we decide that we
> > didn't like the Zebras.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Les Tingley
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