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In a recent article we talked about using the verification report to improve 1D barcode quality. Doing the same for 2D symbols is not altogether different—mostly the nomenclature is different. [...]

Pharmaceutical Binary Code or pharmacode was developed my Laetus GMBH, a German company founded in 1974. Think of the Laetus Pharmacode as the original error prevention solution for the [...]

Those of you who have been barcoding your products for a while can go ahead and roll your eyes, but remember, here is where you started. Barcoding is like life—you can’t skip any steps. Everybody [...]

Sounds like a simple question but the answer isn’t always that straightforward. It depends on a lot of things. For example, what kind of business are you? If you are a commercial printer, you [...]

Barcode uses are so diverse, so rapidly evolving, it is not useful to talk about the future of barcoding as a whole. This article focuses on the future of barcoding just from a retail [...]

We’ve written before about the importance of using an ISO compliant barcode verifier but we’ve never talked specifically about what ISO compliance is and what it means. But let’s begin at the [...]

One of the reasons I hear most often from prospects who are resisting buying a verifier is that scanners have become so aggressive that verification is no longer relevant. It is undeniably true [...]

Several years ago I got a speeding ticket on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I was driving an uninspiring car and it was, well, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, an inspiring stretch of road. I explained [...]

In the years that barcodes have been around in significant numbers, barcode verification has evolved and changed, right along with the barcodes themselves.  In the earliest days, barcode [...]

Barcode quality is increasingly important: barcodes are used in more critical applications than ever before. Matching a wristband barcode to the medications at bedside dosing in a hospital or [...]