FAQ: TBarCode/Direct - Barcode Printing for SAP^®

How can I print Thai or Chinese Characters?
How Can I Correct the Horizontal Margin Position
Wrong Characters in the Print-Out
Tray Selection / Paper Format B6
Blank Lines on Top of the Page with List Printing
Which SAP Bar Code Product is best Suited for my Environment?

Please look at SAP OSS Note # 83502.

In your SAP system there should be a device type

• THSPOST for printing Thai characters
• CNSPOST for printing Chinese characters.

Make a copy of it and adjust the Printer Barcodes (transaction SE73) as shown in our manual. Then assign this device type to your printer (transaction SPAD).

Please check out OSS Note: 538765.

There is an error in the SAP Postscript printer driver POST (device types POST2) when printing PostScript strings in so-called ASCII-85 representation. This occurs when using SAP Basis release 6.10 or higher.

Possible Solutions:

• Install the kernel patch for 6.20 (patch level 1481 - corrected in 6.40 STANDARD),
• or switch off the ASCII85 Representation and use Hexadecimal Encoding as done in previous SAP versions.

Switching from ASCII85 to hexadecimal: Change the option POST_ASCII85 to NO in the TSOPTIONS table afterwards, and then restart.

In most cases, you must specify the assigned format for the correct tray selection in the print job.

For example, if the printer was set to B6 in the manual tray, set the print job found inside the Init-Event of the SAP device type to B6. This would overdrive the original page setup.

<< /PageSize [363 516] /ImagingBBox null >> setpagedevice

List printing (e.g. X_90_120) by default is using the page format ANY (if not configured otherwise). With the page format ANY, the driver prepares the list to make it fit best on the paper format used. Paper tray information must be available. If this is not the case, the list is formatted and printed to fit on a paper size between A4 and LETTER.

TEC-IT offers four different solutions for bar code generation in SAP. Each solution has its special advantages and characteristics.

TBarCode/Direct

If your company mainly uses PostScript^® compatible printers, then TBarCode/Direct is the best solution. No middleware, central installation, all printers (with PostScript).

TBarCode/SAPwin

This Barcode DLL is recommended for Microsoft^® Windows environments in which you can print centrally via a print server with SAPsprint (spooling software of SAP) or on the SAPGUI client directly. Any printer using Windows drivers can be connected.

TBarCode/X

TBarCode/X is an all-round barcode software solution for UNIX^®, Linux^® and Mac OS X^® environments. TBarCode/X can be installed into the spool system of a print server (or on the SAP server itself). Suitable for PCL and PostScript^® printers.

TBarCode/Embedded

If you plan the purchase of a network spool server, the combination of an SEH Print Spool Appliance and TBarCode/Embedded is the appropriate solution. Suitable for PCL and PostScript^® printers.