Well I guess it's like most applications. Every print job has it's own special requirements.
For example the lab analysis report. When the manufacturing process starts on a liquid process, they request certain samples. Samples consist of lab analysis they should take and how often they should take a sample. Most samples consist of about 10 to 12 analysis and are usually taken every 20 minutes to 1/2 hr. A process may last a couple days. So if they take a sample every 1/2 hour for 2 days that's 96 samples at 10 analysis each or around 1000 lab analysis. So the system will print 96 labels with 10 bar coded analysis on it. The labels are sent to the operations area. As they take a sample they affix a label to the bottle and send it to the lab. The lab does the analysis, enters the result and wands the proper analysis bar code on the bottle. The bottle then goes to the next lab analysis area. Most lab work is automated and a dry lab such as gas chromatography and automatic absorption units. The bottle enters a conveyor, the analysis is done and the bar code scanned as it passes the scan area. The data is then sent automatically with the bar code information to the system. Since the bar code scanner can't know exactly what bar code to read a bar code to the bar code is also on the sample. This report is not as complicated as most, but it may help give you some idea of what is needed. Some reports need fairly exact font and line control and others are just text files. Thanks again for all the help.. Dan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
