RoJo,
Thanks for the tip.
We are being quite careful that we 'try before we buy'. So the scanner is in place and we are testing the labels and the company sends them to us. The software that drives the scanner seems able to cope with a mixture of existing formats .. we just have to wrestle with our decision on the standard.
And get the Supplier to 'try before they Produce'!
(get down off my soapbox again)
All we want to do is have the manufacturer's Serial number in the format the manufacturer has decided, for entry into our database.
Ultimately, we will ask the software house who are authors of our Db to write a module that allows us to audit equipment using the bar-code (probably into something portable, like a PDA).
Our aim:
Make a tedious job simpler & eliminate some error generation. Dream on.
C.
