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A Zebra Technologies White Paper

This paper will:

Present options for bar code printing •

from SAP;

Explain the advantages and limitations of •

different output methods for common SAP

usage scenarios including:

Direct Printing from SAP (SAP Smart Forms •

and Interactive Forms)

Upload Method (SAPscript)•

Zebra’s Upload Solution: Zebra • BAR-ONE

for mySAP™ Business Suite

Third-party Bar Code Software for Upload•

Output Management Software•

PC-based Labelling Software (Middleware);•

Describe how to use Unicode™-enabled •

printers to avoid custom forms design to

support international character printing; and

Explain how SAP information can be output •

from mobile and wireless printers.

Zebra has extensive SAP bar code printing experience

and has speciﬁc products to support each method.

Zebra is thus uniquely positioned to recommend

the optimal SAP bar code printing solution for its

customers, regardless of their legacy environment.

Introduction

Without native support, printing bar codes from

SAP requires software to execute several functions.

Static and/or variable data required for the bar code

label must be extracted from the SAP system.

Next, information must be encoded in a bar code

or otherwise formatted to meet the content and

presentation requirements for speciﬁc label ﬁelds.

The label ﬁle, with all bar code, text, and graphics,

also needs to be formatted for the printer control

language of the printer where the output is directed.

Prior to SAP’s breakthrough developments, a variety

of alternatives were developed so SAP customers

could output enterprise information in bar code format

wherever and whenever necessary. All the approaches

for bar code label printing from SAP are based on

either uploading the printer control language to the

SAP application, or downloading SAP conversion

functionality to the print system. The three most

common approaches for bar code printing in the SAP

environment are:

The upload method, in which bar code labels •

are designed using a third-party software

package and uploaded into mySAP™ Business

Suite through SAPscript programming. This is

by far the simplest, least expensive, and most

common method of driving bar code label

printers today. One product for the upload

method is called Zebra BAR-ONE for mySAP™

Business Suite.

Using third-party output management software •

to design forms and labels. This approach is

known as middleware as it requires that the

software convert SAP output into bar codes

and commands that printers can recognise.

Running bar code labelling software networked •

to the SAP system to query directories or print

queues. This is another middleware approach

and normally requires the software to run as

a Windows Server™ converting SAP output to

that of the printer control language.

Printer control language support has been the main

obstacle to efﬁciently integrating bar code label printers

with SAP systems. For years, SAP software only

supported two printer control languages, PostScript

and PCL. These languages are common in laser,

inkjet, and other ofﬁce printers, but are not supported

by thermal bar code printers, which are designed

to produce labels, not documents. So, further data

conversion and command manipulation was always

required so bar code printers could recognise SAP

output.

Finding the best way to make the conversion depends

on several variables. These include the number of label

formats that are used, the frequency that labels change

and that new formats are needed, the number of bar

code printing locations, the legacy base of bar code

label printers, and the amount of SAP programming

and support resources you want to commit.

The following sections present the options for

generating bar code label output from SAP, with

guidance to where each method is appropriate.

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