James R. LaMontagne Posted February 5, 2022 Posted February 5, 2022 This past year I suddenly found my scanner was no longer reading bar codes at all. Even though I knew there was a switch in Comic Base using CODABAR system to Code 2 of 6, I was having issues, which I thought were the scanner. They were not. The scanner works just fine. It never occuurred to me that ComicBase would wipe out all the original CODABAR codes.So now my 20,000 books all labelled under the old system, need new labels for me to process any sales. While I underdstand the need to use the new bar codes, I an surprised they would not just leave access to the old ones as well, much like the UPC bar codes are there.
Doug MedicAR Posted February 5, 2022 Posted February 5, 2022 I believe Pete addressed scanner problems on this past week's ComicBase TV. Honestly, I skipped past because my scanner has been working fine but there was some information in there about the systems that the scanners use.
Dylan Colborne Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 (edited) Wait what? When did this happen? I've been neglecting to update from 22.0.0.1468, and my CODABAR labels are still scanning to the correct database entry. When I generate new labels the barcodes still appear to be coming out in the format of B1234567D... and are CODABAR. Don't tell me they changed this on a minor bugfix update... Anyway, the Manhattan scanner is very versatile and needs some tweaks to make it scan the CODABARs correctly for ComicBase. Dammit, who deleted my attachments? Well, I might as well re-up them here... Turn this on: ...and setting CR instead of CR+LF makes the scanner behave better in other programs (no double line break in Notepad, no opening the Downloads window in Firefox): And if we end up needing it: Edited February 11, 2022 by Dylan Colborne
Dylan Colborne Posted February 11, 2022 Posted February 11, 2022 On 1523 (latest) now, still spitting out CODABARs.
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