Recently a customer called with a verifier concern. This is a company with several locations and different brands of verifiers. The XYZ verifier in one location was grading a particular barcode [...]
Your barcode does not scan. Whomever it was that notified you, however and whenever the bad news arrived, it is a stressful surprise. What happened? What do I do next? Scanners—especially imager [...]
Having discussed what barcodes are and what they do in a previous article, a natural next question is, why are there different kinds of barcodes? Isn’t there one symbology that could do it all? [...]
How Do Barcodes Work? If you refer to all barcodes as UPC’s, this article won’t be interesting to you. But if you know that all barcodes are not UPC’s, it may interest you to know that different [...]
The use of thermal and thermal transfer printing is a popular way to print labels with barcodes—thermal is a great technology for barcodes, especially variable or one-at-a-time label printing. [...]
Last week at LabelExpo Americas, I saw more emphasis on inline verifiers than I have seen in the past. I am skeptical about its effectiveness. Surely there are circumstances where 100% automated, [...]
We have know about the importance of barcode verification. Many of the stories follow a similar path: verify and prevent problems—end of story. But in the real world that is not always the end of [...]
A barcode audit can be one of the most stressful things a vendor will experience, be it a retail, healthcare or a manufacturing supply system. A stress-free barcode quality audit is the result of [...]
The Perfect Universal Verifier First let’s define terms: a “universal” verifier is one that tests both 1D or linear barcodes and 2D or matrix symbols. UPC, Code 128 and ITF14 are examples of 1D [...]
So far so good with the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) and the supply chain safety initiatives it includes. Now begins the formidable task of actually making it effective—and there is much [...]
