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Why verify a barcode? What could possibly go wrong? Here is an incomplete, constantly evolving answer. Verification is all about barcode quality—so let’s start by defining of what “barcode [...]

It seems like a whole new world out there, so much has changed, and quickly.  Pandemic, overwhelmed supply chains, international conflict, inflation–a perfect storm of uncertainty that has [...]

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The death of the ubiquitous UPC symbol has been predicted almost from the start. The parade of successors has including everything from RFID to computer recognition, but it looks like the UPC [...]

Which is better, inline or desktop verifiers? Have inline verifiers made desktop verifiers irrelevant. This article examines the benefits and shortcomings of both types of barcode verifiers. [...]

Your customer has just alerted you to a problem with your barcode. Now you need to test it: is there really a problem? What is it? How do you fix it? Or, you want to be proactive about preventing [...]

As a barcode test lab, we tend to focus on more exotic or subtle mistakes we encounter. However, the obvious mistakes, maybe less interesting, occur surprisingly often. Here are some we have seen [...]

Examining the entire process of getting a high performance barcode on a label or package, there are seven critical steps where mistakes should be avoided. Each step is critically important. [...]