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Barcode performance is has improved in recent year for several reasons. Digital printing is one reason. Better scanners is another. Don’t these make barcode verification unnecessary? Probably not [...]

Verifying a barcode may be more complicated than you think. It is more than a scanner. You don’t just get a verifier and press the button. It begins with getting the right verifier—they are not [...]

Barcodes were invented to solve a problem. That is why they exist. Market research by Kroger led to the first retail scanning of a barcode in 1974. From there, every evolutionary step in barcode [...]

The current issue of Quality Magazine has an excellent article titled A Pulse on Quality 4.0 for Medical Device Manufacturing.* Because our interest in quality is so specific, I read the article [...]

Barcodes are complicated. So is buying the right 1D/2D barcode verifier. Break it down into smaller parts to make a smart choice. Here are ten of those parts: Field of View Make sure the verifier [...]

Several factors support the belief that barcode verification is obsolete. The availability of very aggressive scanners makes barcode verification obsolete. “It stands to reason,” say the [...]

Your company is growing. The client base is increasing organically, but now it is multiplying as you acquire other businesses. Those companies had their own GTINs. How do you manage them? Mergers [...]

I love QR Code—probably not for the same reason you do. It is a blank canvas for incredibly creative, incredibly terrible barcodes. In the barcode testing business, that translates into fun. Here [...]

The boss storms into your office: another barcode disaster. “Get a barcode verifier–NOW”. The atmosphere is electrified with stress. Barcodes are your responsibility, but you [...]

University of Maryland alumnus and inventor of the Universal Product Code, George Laurer, has died. His funeral was held on Monday, December 9 . Mr. Laurer was an electrical engineer at IBM at [...]