| 摘要 |
<p>A method and system for generating automatic data collection ('ADC') symbols and controlling the production and printing of the ADC symbols on a symbol production device or a symbol printing device. An ActiveX control may be provided to a computing application so as to enable the application to produce and print bar code labels. A bitmap image containing instructions for printing bar-code labels may be sent from the application to a printer driver via a general purpose graphical display interface provided by an operating system. The general purpose graphical display interface has no requirement for understanding the bitmap image and passes the bitmap image through to the printer driver that understands the bar-code instructions in the bitmap image. The invention is applicable for the production of other ADC symbols utilizing ActiveX technology. The invention is also applicable to any operating systems. The invention may also utilize technologies other than ActiveX, such as Java.</p> |
