Salon Maid Software HOW TO PRINT BARCODES?

The way to print barcodes through our software is not very complicated, but it may require you to install the barcode font "IDAutomationHC39M" on your PC. In our software you need to have the item already inserted in inventory completely, before you can print any barcodes for it. When you are ready to print barcodes through our software, click on "Inventory", then click "Fill, update or delete in inventory". In the Fill inventory screen type in the "item #, simply tab away from that box or hit enter, so the rest of the fields will fill in with the information of this pre-existing item in inventory. After this the button "Print Labels" will show up and will be available for use. Click on this button. In the "Print Labels" menu input the size of the barcode font you want to use, like "26" for example (this will determine the size of the barcode). Select the number of barcodes you need printed, and maybe the vertical spacing left between barcodes (needed only for the "One column of Labels" option). Select if you will to print "One column of labels" or "Full sheet" of labels (Full sheet option does a Mail Merge to MS Word, therefore MS Word must be present on your PC if you want to use this option). With the "Full sheet" of labels option, our software can tell your MS Word what label format to use for these labels. You can choose any of the hundreds of standard label formats that MS Word supports, by entering their Label Number in the field "Label Format" of this "Print Label" menu in our software. The picture below will show you how your barcode will look like before printing. All you have left is to click "Print Labels" and print this label or labels. If your printout didn't work, or you have experienced an error while attempting the above "barcode printing" instructions, this is most likely due to your PC lacking the barcode font "IDAutomationHC39M". Without it , you will not be able to print barcodes.
You see, the barcode font is just like any other font, like the fonts you use in typing on your PC screen every day. You've probably noticed, when you select a different font, the letters look different. Well, that is what a font is in essence, it just tells your PC what shape to type or show on the screen and on the printer or what kind of a symbol to show after you press a button on your keyboard. The barcode font tells your PC to put certain lines with a certain width and spacing between each other depending on the character or number they will represent, and that is how the barcode is generated.
 
Now that this is clear, you understand why you need to have this font installed in your Windows in order for it to be used in any software whatsoever including our software as well. To download and install the barcode font for FREE, if you do not have it and our barcode feature didn't work for you after you've tried it once, just go to the following Web page " http://www.bizfonts.com/free/ " and then click on the provided link for barcode font download. After you download the barcode font, please remember where (in which folder) you have it downloaded because you'll need to specify that later. If you obtain the barcode font from " http://www.bizfonts.com/free/ ", please note that this file that you will download is zipped (compressed with a zip archive) in order for a smaller file size and a faster download. This means you will need to extract the downloaded zip file after its download, by locating it through your "My Computer" menu and right-clicking on it and selecting "Extract-All". This action will extract the file and the fonts from it in this location and they will be ready for installation.
Then simply go to "Start" and then "Control Panel", and then click on "Fonts". In the "Fonts" menu, you need to click on "File" and then "Install New Font... This is where you are going to specify where the font you've downloaded and extracted is located, choose that folder and point to the file of the font, select it from the "List of Fonts" area and click "OK. Now you are done installing the new barcode font and you need to try the above barcode printing instructions again. If your printout didn't work again, or you have experienced an error while attempting the above "barcode printing" instructions again, this is most likely due to your printer not being barcode printing capable and compatible.