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It is well known that retail shopping is in sharp decline, thanks to online shopping. It is logical to extrapolate that retail barcode scanning is becoming less important, maybe even [...]

The background for this posting is the UDI rule, but in fact inline barcode verification is recommended by the companies and their representatives who sell it. It may be that in certain supply [...]

Ironically it seems that the more important and prevalent barcode quality becomes, the more frequently we encounter situations where barcode scanners are being considered and used instead of [...]

When your barcode doesn’t scan, it is like falling off an emotional cliff. With no information other than the deafening silence of no “beep”, how do you determine what’s wrong? The obvious answer [...]

Our barcode test lab recommends that clients send us actual barcode samples in their final form. We would get labels, packages, subassemblies, component parts of machines and devices, aluminum [...]

We’ve written a lot about barcode quality, finding the right barcode verifier, interpreting the verification report and how to verify a barcode. But what is the single most important barcode [...]

Barcodes In Healthcare In a study published in the journal Anesthesiology in which researchers examined surgical procedures at Massachusetts General Hospital during 2013—2014, it was found that [...]

Making sure your barcodes will work as they should is actually pretty easy, but just because you’ve never had a barcode problem is an illogical and potentially disastrous reason for not taking [...]

There are more barcode types than most people realize. We are talking about the most basic barcode structures—not the more subtle, technical range of ways to encode the data (ergo Code 128, [...]

Often we are asked when the best time to verify barcodes is, and our answer is always “as early and as often as possible.” Recently someone took our advice literally and asked us to verify a UPC [...]