Comment No problem printing to Serious printers (Score 1) 188
I have seen people say it before, but if you buy a more serious barcode printer than a Dymo thermo printer; like an Intermec, Zebra or Monarch they support (their own flavour) of an ascii based printing language.
The downside is lock-in. once you got it working for intermac's (IPL) it probably will not run directly on Zebra's (ZPL).
These printers are made to Always work, and in general kan handle quite a lot of physical abuse. You can most of the time put in special labels or ink transfers to make the label work in the crasiest of circumstances.
These printers most of the time support stuff like Maxicode, PDF417 or Qcode becides some easier codes as Code128 and 3of9.
The advanced ones let you even 'print' RFID's
Spoolfiles tend to be extreemly small (like 200-400bytes for a label without an image, packed with barcodes)
The downside is that you will not get a nice looking GUI, and that creating a label is like creating a dialog in Clipper. (does my age show ?)