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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis was initiated by the Gartner Group a few years ago. I believe I am the first to apply TCO thinking to barcode verifiers, and it is a very important and [...]

This is a topic that has come up before and here it is again. Why? Because it is an important message. People believe what they want to believe and it gets them into all sorts of avoidable [...]

Different brands of verifiers format the verification report differently but the same basic information is presented. The most significant difference would be if the verifier you are using is not [...]

As the saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat; yes, most problems offer multiple solutions. That is certainly true of controlling the risk and liability—financial and otherwise—of [...]

QR Code quality is paramount as it becomes an important marketing tool in every conceivable market and industry. As we have observed in the retail space, barcode performance at checkout is a [...]

The Black Friday shopping numbers are just starting to come in—was it another down year for consumer holiday spending like last year? These numbers are an insight into consumer confidence and the [...]

What a suitable moment in which to pause and say “thank you” to you, our new and loyal readers. It makes all the difference to sense the presence of people out there who are reading, commenting [...]

If you are already familiar with 1D or linear barcodes such as UPC and Code 128, you will find a lot of familiar things in 2D or Matrix symbologies, but some of those familiar things may be done [...]

We recently received an inquiry through the Barcode-Test website with this question: “Is it possible for two GS1-128 barcodes to have slightly different bar patterns, yet scan the exact same [...]

Well, that may be a bit of hyperbole, but here are some pretty bad barcodes:   Guess what this looks like to a scanner?   …it looks like a white patch of absolutely nothing. Too bad since [...]