Barcode Quality Training

When a barcode fails to scan, the silence of no “beep” is deafening and troublesome. What to do? Where to start? The obvious answer is to use a verifier. Usually—but not always—when a scanner [...]

Barcode verifiers are expensive. But price is one kind of number, and cost is another kind. How much does it cost to own a verifier? There are several factors: Maintenance annual re-certification [...]

Sometimes the best of intentions yield less than the best results. A common example: brand owner supplying the barcode file to their package printer. This is not intrinsically a bad idea. The [...]

  Recently we wrote about the future of barcode quality. As print and scanner technology evolve, will barcode quality become obsolete? But change is the only constant. Quality itself is [...]

Pharmacode, aka Pharmaceutical Binary Code or Laetus Code, is a unique barcode.  Pharmacode can be surprising and confusing to companies, most often printers, without previous experience with it. [...]

Acquiring a barcode verifier is not the end of barcode quality concerns. It is not even the beginning of the end—it is the end of the beginning. Now you can see exactly how your barcode is [...]

Barcode compliance is essential in open loop systems, such as a supply chains. Item identification or other information moving through a process is stored in a data carrier. These could be paper [...]

Quality Magazine, June 2019 published a great article entitled “The Current State of Quality,” by Michelle Bangert, Managing Editor. She makes the case that quality has changed over the years, [...]

The impending death of the barcode has been predicted literally for decades. The long and continuing history of barcodes and its steady expansion into unexpected and novel usages reminds us of [...]

Barcodes are forgiving of a wide range of inaccuracies. The experiential evidence alone validates that: how many times in recent memory have you encountered a barcode that did not scan quickly—or [...]