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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

We have talked in the past about why you would want to test a bar code—read more about that here. This article is all about the nuts and bolts of how to test a bar code. To begin with, you must [...]

    You are invited!     The Barcode-Test blog has reached its 100th posting (whew!).  In celebration, this is an invitation and an opportunity for you to speak. You may feel [...]

  Now that the QuickCheck® has been off the market for about a year, how does that product look as we look back on it? What have we learned and what does the future look like? There are [...]

The testing lab has been very busy at Barcode-Test LLC in recent months. In several cases our testing services were hired to settle a disagreement between the brand owner and the label printer; [...]

This posting will be uncharacteristically personal but I hope you find it relevant and interesting. Earlier this week I had the honor of attending the 2012 AIDC Technical Institute at the Russ [...]