Making Bar Codes

Welcome

to

Making a

the Bookland EAN Barcode

with PPP

Anatomy of

They decided to call this new country....

Bookland.

This means that 978-970 are flag numbers for a wonderful fictitious country, the land from which all books come.

Japan's prefix is 49.

A prefix of 000-019 indicates the US or Canada.

A code from France might start with a 34.

All our bar codes are stored together in their own folder. The production team pulls them from this folder to place into the cover files.

This is where your bar code will end up.

If the PDF you just made pops up, it will look like a 8.5x11 sheet of paper with a tiny bar code up in the left corner. Just select File and save the same way you would otherwise.

Start by opening Q-Barcode.

The Production Schedule is a shared spreadsheet that you can access through Google drive from your PPP email. It's our go-to source of information about the books we plan to publish in any season. Work your way down this list, making a bar code for each line.

Because everyone who works here is usually doing multiple projects at the same time, it's important to do a few follow up steps to make sure your work is correct and that everyone knows the project is done.

Making bar codes:

Because you're making a pdf instead of actually printing, you will see a prompt asking you to name your file and decide where it should be saved.

Now you're ready to make your pdf. Change your printer settings first.

The finished bar code needs to look like this:

At PPP, we make bar codes with a program called Q-Barcode. It's easy to use, but not very intuitive. Once you get the hang of it, you can create bar codes in batches using the Production Schedule as your guide.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

1. personalize your Q-barcode setting

2. create bar codes for PPP titles

3. add captions above bar codes

4. name bar codes and save them in the right folder

5. follow up

At PPP, we make bar codes with a program called Q-Barcode. It's easy to use, but not very intuitive. Once you get the hang of it, you can create bar codes in batches using the Production Schedule as your guide.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

1. personalize your Q-barcode setting

2. create bar codes for PPP titles

3. add captions above bar codes

4. name bar codes and save them in the right folder

5. Follow up

Naming the bar code correctly and saving in the right file is essential. The bar code be pulled from the folder by Nan (or whoever makes the cover), who will place it into the cover file without stopping to check and see if it's the right one, or to find out where it is in our system. By doing your part carefully and ensuring that someone proofs your work when you are done, you'll be helping out the production team in a big way.

At PPP, we make bar codes with a program called Q-Barcode. It's easy to use, but not very intuitive. Once you get the hang of it, you can create bar codes in batches using the Production Schedule as your guide.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

1. personalize your Q-barcode setting

2. create bar codes for PPP titles

3. add captions above bar codes

4. name bar codes and save them in the right folder

5. Follow up

1. Proofread your work. We proofread everything here, usually multiple times, because it's inevitable that we will make mistakes. After you finish making bar codes, take the production schedule and go down the list, checking each bar code in the bar code folder to make sure the ISBN is correct, the price is correct, and the title is correct.

2. Print the page(s) from the production schedule that you were working on. Highlight the titles for which you've made bar codes. Put the date on this page, write "bar codes created by (your name)", and leave the page on Nan's desk.

3. Send Elizabeth an email letting her know you have finished making the bar codes and indicating the range you completed (made all Fall bar codes, or made bar codes starting with No Regrets, No Remorse, and going down through Brooklyn Bones). Please make sure you've proofed the bar codes before giving Nan the report or emailing Elizabeth.

Okay. You've got a bar code. The only thing missing is the caption on top that lists the full ISBN.

At PPP, we make bar codes with a program called Q-Barcode. It's easy to use, but not very intuitive. Once you get the hang of it, you can create bar codes in batches using the Production Schedule as your guide.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

1. personalize your Q-barcode setting

2. create bar codes for PPP titles

3. add captions above bar codes

4. name bar codes and save them in the right folder

5. Follow up

The hardcover is saved under the book's title. (The one made in this tutorial will be called No Regrets, No Remorse.pdf.)

For the paperback, add tpbk to the title (No Regrets, No Remorse tpbk.pdf). For the large print, add LP (No Regrets, No Remorse LP.pdf).

You'll add the caption during the process of turning the bar code into a pdf.file, which can be placed directly into the cover from within InDesign by the production team.

Create a new label template which you will then use to make all of your bar codes.

(Depending on your computer settings, the pdf might just pop up, in which chase you'll choose Save as from the File menu, which will bring up this same prompt.)

Select Labels, then Create Label Template.

Create a pdf file by choosing to print a label, selecting the bar code template, and then adjusting it slightly. Then you'll change the printer output to Adobe PDF.

(You'll only have to make this template once.)

For this tutorial, we'll use the new title No Regrets, No Remorse. The hardcover edition ($24.95) has this ISBN: 978-1-4642-0041-0.

Choose: Labels-> Print Label Sheets.

The Custom Label Properties will open. You're going to adjust the caption above the bar code, then save the custom label as "1 bar code".

Let's get started. If you haven't already, open Q-Barcode.

It will usually be showing the data from the last barcode created.

This window will appear and you'll need to make four adjustments.

(But you don't actually have to. You can just type over the old numbers.)

1. Check the Label Templates.

If you recently used it, it will probably be set to the right template. If not, just activate the drop-down menu and choose the right template. (the one you created was called "1 bar code.")

Type in the new ISBN.

Type in the price.

Also skip the decimal. In this way, $24.95 becomes 52495.