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Nobody wants to spend more than necessary on a bar code verifier, and now that the Honeywell (HHP) QuickCheck is history, what is the best entry-level bar code verifier replacement? In the [...]

The AIDC lab at the Russ College of Engineering and  Technology at Ohio University has just released a months-long study of QR Code performance. Volunteers were asked to test a collection of QR [...]

Bar codes have been around in one form or another for over 60 years and in present form on groceries and consumer products for almost 40 years. Other technologies such as RFID have begun to erode [...]

Wired Magazine just posted an article about the next big step Walmart is taking in its fight against Amazon—and it’s a biggie. They are testing an iPhone app that brings self-checkout to a whole [...]

A bar code verifier is a test device. Test devices are supposed to be reliable, which means their results are supposed to be repeatable across different brands and models. What does it mean when [...]

Verifiers are expensive. Sometimes companies are reluctant to invest the money and once they finally do, they are reluctant to let go of an old verifier that still works. But sometimes an old [...]

You have never had a problem with a bar code, so  you don’t do any barcode testing. Everything has been going fine for years. Your processes seem to be nailed down; you have never had a [...]

There is a widely held belief these days that bar code quality isn’t as big an issue as it once was—say back in the 80’s and 90’s. We have consistently and emphatically taken the position that [...]

A barcode tester is a purpose-built device that reads and evaluates the quality of a printed barcode. It produces a final grade that represents the quality of the barcode.  It is important to use [...]

It is a widely accepted fact that printing bar codes on corrugated is a challenge. TAPPI and other trade groups recognize that the verification grade is seldom better than ANSI D (ISO 0.5-2.3) [...]