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Introduction Print quality used to be the most important consideration in barcode quality. Data formatting was something of a minor issue since UPC was almost the only show in town and the [...]

If you are already familiar with 1D or linear barcodes such as UPC and Code 128, you will find many familiar things in 2D or matrix symbologies, but some of those familiar things apply in [...]

After many months of technical committee work, the ISO has released an update to the ISO 15416 standard for linear barcodes. In common parlance, this known as “continuous” or “fractional” grading [...]

In June 2018 it will have been 44 years since a barcode was first scanned. This occurred at Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. For most of those 44 years, barcode verification has meant testing [...]

When a barcode verifier cannot scan a barcode, it can be a puzzling, frustrating situation. Without a verification report, how do you correct an unknown problem? You can access a previous article [...]

After many months of technical committee deliberations, the ISO committee has released an update to the ISO 15416 Standard. This impacts how 1D barcode verifiers calculate and report grading. The [...]

For those of us who remember the early days of barcode verification, the issue of selecting the correct aperture for the 1D barcode we needed to verify may be an unpleasant memory. Early [...]

Multiple times—and in multiple ways—we’ve addressed the issue of barcode verifying from a cost perspective. We have acknowledged how expensive barcode verifiers are, relative to barcode scanners. [...]

The increasingly popular shrink sleeve presents an interesting, although not altogether unique challenge, to the issue of verifying the barcode. The challenge derives from the maxim that the best [...]

Opposing sides of the inline versus offline verification debate sometimes try to make it sound like one or the other is unquestionably superior. It’s a bit like claiming that air is better than [...]