Barcode Verifier

What is the best way to buy the right barcode verifier for your specific needs? Hint: Price is definitely an important consideration, but not the most important one. So what is the most important [...]

Let’s first clear up a common confusion. There are seemingly two kinds of calibration for barcode verifiers: user calibration factory calibration (sometimes called recalibration) User Calibration [...]

Why verify a barcode? What could possibly go wrong? Here is an incomplete, constantly evolving answer. Verification is all about barcode quality—so let’s start by defining of what “barcode [...]

What is the very best handheld barcode verifier available today? Here are the main attributes: ISO compliant. A scanner running verification software isn’t really a verifier. Intuitive, [...]

As barcode technology matured and expanded into more critical roles, barcodes are used on a wider variety of materials and  packaging  configurations: metallic tubes and other cylindrical shapes [...]

Barcode performance is has improved in recent year for several reasons. Digital printing is one reason. Better scanners is another. Don’t these make barcode verification unnecessary? Probably not [...]

Verifying a barcode may be more complicated than you think. It is more than a scanner. You don’t just get a verifier and press the button. It begins with getting the right verifier—they are not [...]

The current issue of Quality Magazine has an excellent article titled A Pulse on Quality 4.0 for Medical Device Manufacturing.* Because our interest in quality is so specific, I read the article [...]

Barcodes are complicated. So is buying the right 1D/2D barcode verifier. Break it down into smaller parts to make a smart choice. Here are ten of those parts: Field of View Make sure the verifier [...]

The boss storms into your office: another barcode disaster. “Get a barcode verifier–NOW”. The atmosphere is electrified with stress. Barcodes are your responsibility, but you [...]