Barcode Printing

Hi Experts,
I have a program for barcode printing.
Now the problem is we have some logic at the end of which the printing is performed.
But there is some text that we want to change in the print.
But I am not able to find how the print is triggered.
The only thing I can see is GUI_DOWNLOAD.
Is there any way to find how the printing is triggered?
Thanks
Ravi

Hi,
Which SAP functionality are u using for BARCODE Printing, SAP Script or smartforms.
Can u post ur code here?
Regards,
Sonika

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http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-basis/print-barcode-with-smartform-634396
http://sap.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/sap-dev/printing-barcode-733550
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