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Like most innovations, barcode technology started with a problem looking for a solution. Unlike a lot of solutions, barcode technology wasn’t possible without the existence of a solution that had [...]

Dr. Allais is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of bar coding and automatic identification. As chief executive officer of Intermec Corporation from 1973 through September 1987, [...]

Dr. Jerome Swartz, former CEO of Symbol Technologies is credited with having defined barcodes as “…portable, disposable memory.” Someday I hope to confirm or refute that in a conversation with [...]

 In our recent article Why Are There Different Kinds of Barcodes?  we posed the rhetorical question  “…is there one barcode type that could do it all?” There is a symbology that does a lot. [...]

Since their initial use in grocery checkout, barcodes are used in an amazingly broad range of uses,  including: The full spectrum of consumer retail goods Manufacturing process tracking (WIP) of [...]

Whether it is the barcode on your product, or the barcode you printed for a customer, you are confident it should work right. Well maybe your confidence is misplaced; if  something goes wrong, [...]

We lost a founder and a giant in the barcode industry. On Tuesday, January 28, Paul Bergé died suddenly and unexpectedly. Known to many in barcoding, most recently Paul served as the President of [...]

As barcode technology matured and expanded into more critical roles, barcodes are used on a wider variety of materials and  packaging  configurations: metallic tubes and other cylindrical shapes [...]

Next to the predicted (and bogus) death of QR Codes, probably the next most prevalent doomsayer forecast is that online shopping will kill barcodes. And one of the most-oft stated causes is [...]

Barcodes are so commonplace, it is easy to become complacent. A “no news is good news” attitude is a form of neglect that can lead to serious and expensive trouble. Unfortunate when it is so [...]