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When you think about what is happening in the quality community as ISO 9001 and other quality protocols evolve into a risk management standard, you appreciate the unique perspective we have as [...]

VDC Research, a leading technology market analyst form which specializes in barcode and other auto-id technologies, published a new report today (October 1, 2013). The report claims that barcode [...]

What does barcode quality actually mean? Is barcode quality limited to the printed image or does it include the structure of the encoded data? What if the printed image and data structure are [...]

The lead article in the September 17, 2013 Pharmaceutical Online Newsletter is entitled “Mitigate Risk with Package Quality”. It is an excellent article and makes several cogent points about the [...]

Just because these barcode mistakes are simple does not mean they are obvious—many of them are subtle—so subtle that some verifiers don’t detect them. Barcode mistakes fall into two broad [...]

It took over twenty years from the issuance of Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland’s patent for a printed barcode pattern (1952), for the grocery industry to recognize and adopt the technology [...]

Everybody seems to agree that barcode verifiers are expensive—that’s why some “clever” people foolishly use scanners instead, and some others don’t verify at all. Eventually they will learn, but [...]

Barcode problems are often the result of unclear relationships between a printer and their customer. Customers may complain and even threaten legal action without considering circumstances beyond [...]

  Hasn’t this drum already been beaten to death? How could there possibly be anything new or interesting to say about barcode quality? Well, read on and then decide. Everybody already knows [...]

Barcode font problems are a common occurrence. Bar code fonts are a lousy way to generate a bar code. To prove our point, we did a very unscientific study by doing an online search of the term [...]