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So much technology is involved with barcodes, from designing and printing to scanning and decoding. It is often overlooked that this is as much art as science. It can be difficult to understand [...]

A simple enough question and it leads to a qualifying question—do you really want to know? So we’ll start with the simplest answer: a barcode scanner works on the basis of reflectivity, or more [...]

How Do Barcodes Work? If you refer to all barcodes as UPC’s, this article won’t be interesting to you. But if you know that all barcodes are not UPC’s, it may interest you to know that different [...]