Printing Barcodes from webapp?

[John J. Lee]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On 04 Dec 2006 12:41:59 +0000, jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) declaimed the
> following in comp.lang.python:
> 
> > digits, through complicated encodings (my colleague Robin tells me US
> > postal bar codes were a particular pain), up to funny-looking 2D "bar"
> 
> 	Really? I seem to recall coding a GW-BASIC/Epson MX-80 compatible
> routine to take a zip-code and produce the bar-code for it, on a TRS-80
> Mod 4. Wasn't for my use -- a co-worker wanted it (and had the "manual"
> of markings allowed on an envelope).

Apparently there's a new US postal barcode, a "four state" barcode.
Presumably you drew the older simpler ones back when you were using
the TRS-80...


John