I don’t know a way to do this directly on an object like Barcode, since he does not respect the size, Preferred size, minimum size, etc and not even if it has any utility for this. I looked at version 1.5 and have not.
One way to do this is to change the size of the original image it generates by recovering it from the Barcode.
You can recover the BufferedImage of the object Barcode in this way:
final BufferedImage originalImage = BarcodeImageHandler.getImage(barcode);
We now need to create the representation of the new image, using 302 (approximate value equivalent to 8cm) width and original height. It would look something like this:
final int originalHeight = originalImage.getHeight();
final BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(302, originalHeight, originalImage.getType());
Then we need to create the graphic representation of this image and draw it with the new measurements in the new image:
final Graphics2D g = resizedImage.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(originalImage, 0, 0, 302, originalHeight, null);
g.dispose();
Okay, here we already have the resized image, just do whatever it takes. To save to disk, as you are doing, can do so:
final File f = new File("F:/barcode.png");
ImageIO.write(resizedImage, "PNG", f);
A complete example would be this:
final Barcode barcode = BarcodeFactory.createCode128C(chave);
barcode.setDrawingText(false);
barcode.setBarHeight(60);
barcode.setBarWidth(2);
final BufferedImage originalImage = BarcodeImageHandler.getImage(barcode);
final int originalHeight = originalImage.getHeight();
final BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(302, originalHeight, originalImage.getType());
final Graphics2D g = resizedImage.createGraphics();
g.drawImage(originalImage, 0, 0, 302, originalHeight, null);
g.dispose();
final File f = new File("F:/barcode.png");
ImageIO.write(resizedImage, "PNG", f);
That generated this barcode:

From this original:

This is an example and you can see other things like scaling in the new image, you’ll find a lot of reference on the internet of how to do this =)
							
							
						 
She was angry. A doubt in the database query by barcode is Stream comparison?
– Krismorte
@Krismorte I don’t know if I understand this correctly, but normally images like this are not persisted, but the information that generated it, like a digitable line, so the search would be for this generating information.
– Bruno César
I’m a little lost. How is the association of the bar code with the register in the bank?
– Krismorte
@Krismorte include a question with your doubts, there is no relation to this issue. Thanks
– Bruno César
I created and was negative :( http://answall.com/questions/133834/gerar-e-ler-c%C3%B3digo-de-bars
– Krismorte