>Hey Ed,
> Thanks for the tip. Your suggestions make sense. I'm not one to reinvent the wheel. If I used a standard 3 of 9 font bar code NOW and we decide later on down the road which reader to use, it should read the old bar codes right?
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One more thing to consider here; if you go with a font-based barcode output, and you suddenly discover that you need a different one, it's just a matter of a font change, and perhaps a new algorithm for computing checksums, rather than going back to square 1...