Re: barcodes + rogadines
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:06:31 -0400 To: "John T. Longino"From: John Pickering Subject: Re: barcodes + rogadines Cc: msharkey@byron.ca.uky.edu Jack, Thanks for your inquiry about barcodes. Generally good news. I've spent most of my summer developing a new and improved solution. I even visited Intermec to get their help. I'm nearly there on most fronts. If everything continues on tract, I'll have a fantastic solution ready for testing late this fall and plan to wow everybody at ECN. I'm fine tuning a new label that employs data matrix symbols. Go to to get an idea of what it looks like. Follow links under "Labels" and then "Overview." What you see is where I was about a month ago. The symbol is now somewhat smaller. Bottom line, I can print "all-in-one" labels that combine a conventional label and a unique symbol into a single INBIO-sized label. I'm writing a Web interface for a database that will allow authorized users to format globally unique labels via their browser and print them on Web-based printers. My ultimate goal is then to allow any authorized user to use the Web to associate additional data with the labels, such as info on determinations, and for the general public to retrieve what we wish to disseminate. Some hurdles still exist before I have a complete solution that will work for everyone. While I can read the new labels very, very quickly with a 1470 imager on my UNIX box, it will be next year before Mac and Wintell users will be able to do the same -- unless they are willing to write a software interface for the 1470, which unfortunately doesn't come with a keyboard wedge interface. Sometime around March, Intermec plans to have a new USB imager that will solve this problem and make reading the labels possible on machines with USB ports without writing any software. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions. If you like, I could send you some samples. I also have some gummed labels for slides and vials in a formative stage. Ideally, I'd like you to be a beta test site early next year. Mike just wrote to me about getting more ALAS rogadines from your mountain transect. Delighted. I'm planning on it. Thanks. Cheers, Pick >Pick, > >You there? How's life? > >It's time to revisit the barcode scene. Do you have any new >ideas/info? The last activity on the website was over a year ago. > >Jack >****************************************************** >John T. Longino >Lab I, The Evergreen State College >Olympia WA 98505 USA >longinoj@evergreen.edu >Ants of Costa Rica on the Web at http://www.evergreen.edu/ants >Project ALAS at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/ALAS/ALAS.html >******************************************************
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