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Earlier this month we published an article about DotCode, a new symbology designed specifically for high speed ink jet and laser dot printing on corrugated cartons or other substrates as they fly [...]

It is well known that retail shopping is in sharp decline, thanks to online shopping. It is logical to extrapolate that retail barcode scanning is becoming less important, maybe even [...]

AIM Incorporated, the trade association for the AIDC industry, has released the revised International Symbology Standard for DotCode. In their announcement, AIM described DotCode as follows: [...]

The background for this posting is the UDI rule, but in fact inline barcode verification is recommended by the companies and their representatives who sell it. It may be that in certain supply [...]

As a company that champions barcode quality, we encounter two types of groups: those who agree with us that barcode quality is important, and those who don’t. There is a range of conviction in [...]

We’ve written previously about the total cost of ownership implications of various types of barcode verifiers. You can review that article here. The long term costs of seemingly minor compromises [...]

  Once again we have evidence that the only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. Recently there has been an update to the ISO 15416 specification for 1D or linear barcodes, and it [...]

Why would a barcode verifier produce inconsistent readings on the same barcode? One would expect readings with little or no variation. How can this happen? Let’s start with the device itself. At [...]

Amazon has just done something nobody ever thought they would do—they announced plans to open a brick-and-mortar store. The first of what could grow into many stores will be located in Seattle [...]

Scanners are increasingly better at reading low quality barcodes. Barcode printing has also improved: higher resolution, better control over line width and gain. Haven’t these advancements [...]