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Having discussed what barcodes are and what they do in a previous article, a natural next question is, why are there different kinds of barcodes? Isn’t there one symbology that could do it all? [...]

So much technology is involved with barcodes, from designing and printing to scanning and decoding. It is often overlooked that this is as much art as science. It can be difficult to understand [...]

A simple enough question and it leads to a qualifying question—do you really want to know? So we’ll start with the simplest answer: a barcode scanner works on the basis of reflectivity, or more [...]

How Do Barcodes Work? If you refer to all barcodes as UPC’s, this article won’t be interesting to you. But if you know that all barcodes are not UPC’s, it may interest you to know that different [...]

Check out the checkout at a German retail store…click HERE and enjoy the video! May the spirit of the season warm your heart. Our gift to you: Happy Holidays from Barcode-Test.

The use of thermal and thermal transfer printing is a popular way to print labels with barcodes—thermal is a great technology for barcodes, especially variable or one-at-a-time label printing. [...]

Recently we were asked to weigh in on an ongoing conversation between a label printer and their customer. The GS1 Databar symbols the printer was producing had an 8 mil X dimension which is [...]

Last week at LabelExpo Americas, I saw more emphasis on inline verifiers than I have seen in the past. I am skeptical about its effectiveness. Surely there are circumstances where 100% automated, [...]

We were recently invited to a flexo printer who was getting inconsistent verifier results. The barcode was a UPC on a clear poly bag. When the symbols were tested on the flat, white substrate in [...]

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