Font Quality and Customer References
Companies are discovering that implementing in-house automation solutions with our fonts provides the highest level of scalability and component re-use with operating system, application and printer independence.
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We are proud font suppliers for some of the most notable and successful companies in the world. These are just a few of the companies who've purchased our fonts to advance their business:
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*Our privacy policy restricts us from giving out actual names and email addresses of companies that order our products.
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“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, Texas
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“The EZ Barcode Font Package makes
inventory organization an easy task. We’re
now able to track 12,000 products in 3 different
warehouses with ease” - Tony with AquaRec, Washington
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About the quality of our fonts |
Our business fonts are created directly from national and international standards. They are compiled with high quality compilers giving precisely placed output to match the standard. Below we have outlined a few of the benefits of using TrueType or PostScript font technology to automate your business.
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 like bitmap images and graphics are, rather they are programs of lines and shapes designed to rasterize to the output device with specific measurements. Some components that use WMF images such as our our ActiveX Control and DLL and .NET Forms Control also rasterize well to high quality printers. Sometimes, when a font is displayed on the screen at small point sizes it may look distorted. This is because the resolution of the screen is not accurate enough to display the complexities in the font - this is a normal operation of a scalable font that is created to specifications.
Using TrueType or PostScript fonts in your application, you can send your output to several different printers that have different resolutions. Some specialized printers have special built in fonts. When the printer fails or needs service, you will be dependant on that printer and you will not be able to redirect your output to another type of printer. Our fonts do not print from the fonts that already reside in the printer.
Programs that generate bitmap graphics can be used on printers in the same way as long as the printers all have the same number of dots per inch. If you switch from a 300 DPI printer to a 600 DPI printer using a bitmapped application, your output will appear twice as small. Doing the same with a font will produce a consistent output at any DPI.
It should also be noted that some barcode components that use WMF images such as our our ActiveX Control and DLL and .NET Forms Control also produce a consistent output at any printer DPI.
The unique encoding in our fonts allows them to be utilized on different operating systems with the same application. An application written in Java, for example, that runs on a web browser can utilize the same fonts on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX PCs provided the fonts are installed on each machine. Special programs that produce graphic output are usually compiled for a particular operating system.
Barcode components such as DLLs are only compatible with a limited number of applications and development environments. For about the price of a single component, our barcode fonts and royalty-free font tools we provide can be used in several applications and development environments. This allows your organization to remain flexible. Let's say for example that you create an application in Microsoft Access and run it on a PC. After a few years your company grows and you find you need to reproduce your application on another platform. Your developers create an application in Oracle, for example, running on a UNIX host. Since you already own the license for the font and we provide fonts with every order that support PCs, Macintosh and UNIX, you do not have to purchase more fonts or hardware. The programmer would only need to duplicate the same program logic and use the same font. If a barcode component compatible with Microsoft Access such as the ActiveX Control and DLL were purchased, a UNIX compatible component such as our Java Barcode Library would need to be purchased for the new system.
Most end users understand and know how to use fonts. Users that use MS Word, for example, usually select different fonts in their text as appropriate. 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.
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 printing 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 it to the printer rather than having the printer generate the graphics from the font. If your print driver has this option, make sure it is not enabled if bandwidth is a concern.
Although there are several advantages to using fonts as noted above, they may not be the best choice or the easiest product to use in your application. Below are a few situations when this may be the case:
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