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Barcodes fail for a lot of reasons. The reasons barcodes fail fall into two broad categories:  they either fail because of poor image quality or because of flawed data quality. Poor image quality [...]

  We received an urgent call from a company who found us online—they are printing a Code 128 symbol in black ink on a metal tag and it is not scanning consistently.  Their verifier was [...]

Best practices for any company involved in barcoding is to have a barcode quality policy. Who is a company “…involved in barcoding…? The short answer is any company with potential liability if a [...]

Why do different barcode scanners behave differently? Even some scanners of the same brand and model behave differently. Why is this? Barcode scanners, like other devices, are manufactured to a [...]

Barcodes are everywhere. Today there are barcodes on medications, patient wristbands, airline boarding passes and luggage tags, manufacturing sub-assemblies such a circuit boards and components, [...]

MEMO TO EVERYONE who predicted the death of barcoding, whether because of the rise of RFID technology, automatic product recognition, Near Field Communication or (fill in the blank): Barcode [...]

This is not the first time we have talked about the business case for barcode verification. It is a subject that will arise again and again because bar code testing is an all-at-once expense; [...]

The lab at Barcode-Test LLC receives a lot of compliance labels for verification. We see all sorts of problems, some of them quite unexpected, and we often wonder what the label printer was [...]

A friend sent me an image of a UPC symbol that “did not scan right” (his words) at the local big box store. As a barcode quality guy, I’m always on the lookout for problem barcodes; friends and [...]

The fact that bar codes are so ubiquitous today is the business case for barcode verifiers. When you say “ubiquitous” most people readily agree and yet still not comprehend the width and depth of [...]