Barcode Quality Training

Barcode Test LLC is completely focused on barcode quality. We hear on a nearly daily basis how imperiled we are, hastening into extinction. Digital imaging scanners are capable of reading [...]

At GS1 Connect Conference in Las Vegas, a chart was distributed, showing the various levels of risk associated specifically with poor data quality in supply chain operations, in-store operations [...]

Decodability is one of the graded ISO parameters that determine barcode quality. Why test and grade a barcode for quality? This is done to predict with reasonable accuracy that the barcode scans [...]

A guest author gives us a quality expert’s overview of the significance, importance and origins of standards. We are grateful to Jon M. Quigley, PMP CTFL for this excellent article. We [...]

When a barcode doesn’t scan it is almost always an emergency—a growing and unhappy checkout line, a patient lying in a hospital bed waiting for medication, or a chargeback notification from your [...]

Barcode quality means two different things. Print quality is one important aspect of barcode quality. This other is data structure. A perfectly printed barcode with incorrectly parsed data will [...]

The verifier is reporting low grades on your barcodes, consistently in the D and F range. Your scanner decodes them just fine. Which do you believe? What is the smart way to proceed? Verifier [...]

When barcodes scan incorrectly, or fail to scan altogether, it is always an unexpected event. It should not happen. There are five basic steps everyone can take to give a barcode every advantage [...]

How do you figure out what is wrong with a barcode that does not scan? Where do you start? The obvious answer is to use a verifier. Usually—but not always—when a scanner cannot decode a barcode, [...]

We have beaten the drum of barcode quality for the better part of 40 years. It may only be a slight exaggeration to say that we have made every possible argument for why barcode quality is [...]