Aside from its speed and accuracy, there are few good reasons why you need to start incorporating barcodes into your existing system. Small or large business organizations are reaping the benefits of being able to control, with minimal efforts, their inventories, resources, transport system or just about anything. Barcode has truly revolutionized the way we interact with data and even extended to identify our very own social security numbers.
With its simplicity and speed, barcodes are the epitome for most of today’s business success. By constantly providing accurate results, businesses can save money on labor cost to process a mammoth of information that will take days or even weeks for a human to complete.
Seeing barcodes in crystal reports is something that most business owners, analysts or data processors are looking forward to. For those who are not familiar with crystal reports, this is yet another intelligent application aims to provide accurate and up to date information in all areas of an organization. A general-purpose reporting tool can be customized to serve the unique needs of different business models.
So How Exactly You Print Barcodes in Crystal Reports
Actually, barcode printing in Crystal Reports is easy as long as you have the right tools with you. First off, you need a barcode font and the User Function Library (UFL). If you are using Crystal Reports 2008, then you are in luck as the barcode User Function Library is already built-in with the software. Do not throw away your old Crystal Report software because the barcode will also work prior to the 2008 version.
The UFL plug in serves as an interface before a barcode is generated. Its basic functions include starting and stopping the barcode, computation of the check digit and formatting the final output using one of the supplied barcode fonts into the report. Needless to say, the UFL orchestrates the whole thing for a meaningful result.
If you are looking for a complete easy to use barcode system, you can try Azalea’s barcode package. You will receive both the User Function Library (UFL) and the fonts needed for its integration to your Crystal Reports Projects.
Again, there are two steps to accomplish this.
1. Passing the data to the UFL
2. UFL processes the data and generates a valid barcode value using the barcode fonts.
If you have not used any barcode system in the past, no need to fret out. The system is extremely user friendly, and all the processing is done in the background, absolutely no human intervention needed. Bring the benefits of the barcode system from the shelf to your reports today.