Images and interpolation

[mkane]

Hi,

I have a customer who is trying to print a barcode from Word 2000. The
printer required can only print in black and white, so any incoming
color images must be dithered. Usually for barcode printing this is not
an issue, but when the customer inserts the barcode image into the Word
document, some weird scaling or anti-aliasing kicks in and the image
turns into a greyscaled one. This is dithered by the printer driver and
produces an invalid barcode. Is there any way to disable this
anti-aliasing so that Word only prints the exact pixels that come from
the imported image?

-mk

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi MKane,

Word 97 and 2000 handle graphics a bit differently
than newer versions.

What file type is the graphic of the barcode?
What printer type?

I'm assuming the barcode is something being generated by
one of Zebra's barcode products?
Is the use of a barcode font rather than a graphic an
option?

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I have a customer who is trying to print a barcode from Word 2000. The
printer required can only print in black and white, so any incoming
color images must be dithered. Usually for barcode printing this is not
an issue, but when the customer inserts the barcode image into the Word
document, some weird scaling or anti-aliasing kicks in and the image
turns into a greyscaled one. This is dithered by the printer driver and
produces an invalid barcode. Is there any way to disable this
anti-aliasing so that Word only prints the exact pixels that come from
the imported image?

-mk>>

 

[mkane]

This is an ID card printer, and the barcode is an image created by some
software the customer is using. I don't know what that may be. There
might be a way to use a barcode font but all I have right now is the
Word document that was given to me.

I'll try this with a newer version of Word to see what happens.

I have tried importing the image from a TIFF file and a BMP. I have
also tried using "Link to file" and "Insert and link" (or whatever it
is) with the same results each time.

I have also tried editing the picture and setting its format to "Black
and White" which also did not help.

Can you give me more details on how the graphics handling might be
different?