Small Bar Codes

[Lee]

We have a Zebra TLP3842 printer with 300DPI for bar coding. The requirement is to print small bar code labels to stick on things like motherboards. The data printed in the bar code is 22 characters long, i.e. 99X99X9999XXXX9999X9999. With the Zebra printer we can print at .25 in high and 1.75 in wide and the scanner can read this. We cannot get this precision with the Telerik bar codes. The smallest we can get it is 3in wide. This will not fit in the limited space on a mother board. The Zebra software goes to the dot level where Telerik goes to the pt level. Is there a way to improve the Telerik bar codes when using very small dimensions?

[Peter]

Hello Lee,

Telerik Reporting is a general purpose reporting solution. So to have good general purpose printing results we use GDI image rendering and as you have noticed this imposes some limitations regarding the minimum barcode size.

Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Joel Kraft]

I find that setting the Module property on the barcode control to a smaller value allowed me to get much smaller barcodes!