You might need to print bar codes when you are designing reports that are used in warehouse management, for example. Printing a barcode is actually very simple, depending on the type of barcode, of course. In its most simple form, a barcode is no more or less than a type of font. A barcode can be used to visualize numeric or alpha-numeric characters using vertical stripes of different widths. This information can then be scanned with barcode scanners.

This method of processing information can improve performance. For example, when you are a warehouse employee and you need to pick items from different bins in the warehouse to prepare shipments, then you also need to enter this information in your ERP system, in our case Dynamics NAV. An item number can be made up of many characters, and a lot of time is lost typing those numbers. You can simply scan the number with a barcode scanner and it will be recognized by the system.