Font Quality & Customer References
Companies are discovering that implementing in-house automation solutions with IDAutomation fonts provides the highest level of scalability and component reuse with operating systems, applications, and printer independence.
- Customer References
- Customer Comments
- The Quality of IDAutomation Fonts
- Output Device & Printer Independence
- Operating System Independence
- Application Independence
- Component Re-Use
- Advantages of Using Fonts
- When Fonts Are Not the Best Choice
IDAutomation Font Customer References
Some of the most notable and successful companies and government agencies in the world use IDAutomation fonts for their high quality, font and license flexibility, and technical support. The following are just a few.
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*IDAutomation's privacy policy restricts the giving out of actual names and email addresses of companies that order IDAutomation products.
Customer Comments About IDAutomation Fonts
"The IDAutomation Code 128 Font enabled us to integrate barcoding into 4D and Excel applications that work cross-platform between Classic Macintosh, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems."
- Charles Daneri, Objective Systems, LLC (computer consulting firm), Baltimore, MD.
“For the first time, I was able to download a package that provided me with all the requirements for my project, contained in one package. This font package enables us to efficiently track the high throughput of our vaccine production.”
- Burke Squires, Eliance Biotechnology, Dallas, TX
About the Quality of IDAutomation Fonts
IDAutomation business fonts are created directly from national and international standards. Many of IDAutomation's fonts include new patent-pending technology, which allows extremely high-quality barcode printing. A few of the benefits experienced when using IDAutomation fonts are outlined below. Due to the unique creation of IDAutomation fonts, the statements made here are about IDAutomation fonts only and are not necessarily true for barcode fonts created by others.
Font Application Scalability
Unlike bitmap images and many graphic generation programs, fonts give a consistent and accurate rasterization and printout at various point sizes. This is because fonts are not represented by actual dots such as bitmap images and graphics. Rather, font files are programs of lines and shapes designed to rasterize the output device with specific measurements.
Output Device and Printer Independence
Using TrueType or PostScript fonts in applications can send the output to multiple printers with varied resolutions. Some specialized printers have built-in fonts. When the specialized printer needs service or fails, the output is unable to be redirected to another type of printer. IDAutomation fonts are not printer-specific which means these fonts will print on almost all printers.
Programs that generate bitmap graphics can be used on printers in the same way when the printers all have the same number of dots per inch or DPI. Switching from a 300 DPI printer to a 600 DPI printer using a bitmapped application will cause the output to appear twice as small. Making the same switch with a font will produce a consistent output at any DPI.
OS Independence
The unique encoding in IDAutomation fonts allows them to be utilized on different operating systems with the same application. A Java-based web application, for example, can utilize the same fonts on Windows, Mac, and Unix PCs if the fonts are installed on each machine that will display the barcode. Special programs that produce graphic output are usually compiled for a particular operating system.
Application Independence and Component Re-Use
Barcode components, such as DLLs, are only compatible with a limited number of applications and development environments. Comparable to the price of a single component, IDAutomation barcode fonts and the font encoder tools provided can be used in a wide variety of applications and development environments for much greater flexibility. As an example, applications can be created in Microsoft Access, which can run on a PC.
After a few years, growth and new technology may require programming in a new platform. Developers can create an application in Oracle, for example. The programmer would only need to duplicate the same program logic and use the same font.
Fonts Require Less Bandwidth than Bitmaps or Images
Bitmapped and other graphic products consume more bandwidth than fonts because when the print job is started, the font is downloaded to the printer and the information that follows is mostly ASCII text. This becomes important when printing on a busy LAN or to a remote location. There is an option on some print drivers in Windows to "print TrueType as graphics". This will consume more bandwidth because the PC generates graphics and sends them to the printer rather than having the printer generate the graphics from the font. If the print driver has this option, make sure it is not enabled if bandwidth is a concern.
Fonts are Easy to Understand & Distribute
Most end-users understand and know how to use fonts. MS Word users, for example, usually select different fonts for the appropriate text. With this basic understanding of how fonts operate, the only other thing to do is print the character representing the appropriate symbol in the font. Fonts can be installed on MS Windows PCs by simply copying them into the \Windows\Fonts directory. Font usage can be automated in the UNIX environment with TrueType font servers. Other automated distribution techniques include embedding PostScript fonts into PDF (PostScript Data Format) documents and embedding TrueType fonts into HTML web pages.
When Fonts are Not the Best Choice
Fonts may not be the best solution when implementing barcodes on the Internet or web browsers because fonts only work if they are installed on each computer. Barcode components such as IDAutomation's ASP Barcode Server for IIS, ASP.NET Web Server Control, and Java Servlets are server-side implementations.