Replacing Jetform - Open Source Barcode Printing Alternatives?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday September 2, 2003 @08:30AM from the numbes-as-sets-of-human-unreadable-lines dept.

diabolus_in_america asks: "I work for a mid-size manufacturer. Currently we use Jetform running on HP/UX to print the majority of our barcode labels to Zebra thermal printers. However, Jetform is a dead technology, and we are would like to look at open source alternatives. Is there an open source alternative to Jetform? What we need is a system that lets us mark up and design a barcode label which can then be populated from data files at print time. In its day, the Jetform system was an excellent and quick solution to barcode printing. But those days are over, at least for us, and we'd like to move to an open source alternative, if one exists."

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Why is it dead ? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-02 08:36 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's nice to think about a Free Software solution, because if you can get to source code without paying licensing fees it increases your businesses reliability and flexibility.

However, are you sure you have to switch now ? What exactly is it that you can't do that you want to do ? Just because you haven't seen a gushy cutting edge article about jetforms in the trade press lately, is no reason to drop it. Does every portion of your business have to be a current fad ?