Scanning Barcode

Scanning Barcode

Ergosoft allows you to use Barcode scanning devices or your smartphone to identify jobs in the PrintQueue or CutQueue through a QR code and bring them up for printing. With the Wait for Barcode feature active in the Print/CutQueue, simply scan the QR code. The Queue will automatically bring up the job that has the matching “Barcode” information in the Job Info and have it ready for Print or Cut respectively.

With this powerful feature, you can easily reduce errors in your production by matching jobs to order sheets via QR codes or matching cut jobs to the printed output through the QR code.

Barcodes can be scanned with:
  1. Commercially available Barcode reading devices that emulate a keyboard
  2. A Smartphone and the Barcode to PC App (Via Clipboard or Text file)

Setting up the Barcode for the Job

  1. To assosciate a Barcode with a job, have the job active in the JobComposer and no image selected so the Properties bar on the right shows the job specific settings.
  2. Go to Job Info. Enter your desired identification into the Barcode field. Alternatively you can enable the checkbox Auto Fill with Job ID to always use the Job ID for the barcode field. 
  3. Click Apply. 
The entered text is now assosciated as the barcode for this job. When this job is in the Queue it can be identified by scanning a barcode with this value. 

Printing the Barcode

Depending on your application there are different ways to get the barcode printed. If you are using order sheets from your order management system you might be able to generate your barcode directly onto the order sheet so operators can scan it to bring up the corresponding job. 
If you are using the barcode to match prints to cut jobs, you might want to generate the barcode directly in Ergosoft to print it along with the images in the job. To do so, right click on an empty area in the Job and select “Add Job Element”.
Select Barcode and then as the type “QR Code”. For the text of the Barcode you can either add the same text as the job barcode manually, or use {JobBarcode} to automatically and dynamically set the same text as the job barcode here. Confirm to create the barcode.
After printing you can then scan this barcode to e.g. select the appropriate job for cutting in the CutQeueue. 

Scanning the Barcode

  1. To scan the barcode and have it load the appropriate job, open your Print- or CutQueue. 
  2. Set the Queue to Offline.
  3. Activate Wait for Barcode either by using the button in the User Interface or through File > Wait for Barcode.

  4. Go to File > Options and select the mode how you want the barcode to be detected.
For Hand Measurement devices Clipboard is a common setting. If you measuring device places the measured code in a text or table file, select the option “Text File” and point it to your file.
If you are using the Barcode to PC app, select Via Text file and select the transfer file you have configured in Barcode to PC.
Confirm with Ok. 
Set the Queue to Start Manually (Yellow).

With this feature active, the Queue will listen to any input from a barcode reader either directly connected or connected through the Barcode to PC App. 

After activating the function, scan the barcode. This will automatically bring up and select the Job that has the same Job Barcode text as the scanned barcode and have it ready to print or cut. 
You can now use the Start Button of the Queue to launch the Job to either print or cut.


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