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 [...]
Barcode verifiers are designed to be reliable, which means accurate and repeatable. When they are not, eroded confidence creates an emergency with an uncertain path to resolution. One of the most [...]
It seems obvious until you think about it. What is not barcode quality? Obviously, it is a barcode that does not scan–and yet, as we have recently written, a barcode that scans perfectly [...]
The Scan Reflectance Profile (SRP) is a primary tool for diagnosing barcode problems. It graphically represents the entire barcode and its scanning performance. This is the most important tool [...]
Today there are 3 different types of barcode scanners. The broad categories are: Laser CCD Camera Technically, there is a 4th type—the wand or pen scanner but this is old technology and few are [...]
Barcode scanning problems fall into two categories: the barcode does not scan at all, or it scans inconsistently. Non-scanning barcodes are the hardest to diagnose since the verifier is not [...]
