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If everything goes to plan, the ubiquitous, venerable UPC will soon be relegated to barcode history. It leaves a 50-year history and big boots to fill, but the successor QR Code is well up to the [...]

A large Midwest flexo label printer was struggling with an order for 6 million UDI labels for an important medical device customer. The press was sitting, the clock was ticking, and the grading [...]

Whether you use a barcode testing service or have a barcode verifier onsite, you get more than just problem-solving.  An analogy that works for me is the radar detector. Back in my motorcycling [...]

Everybody knows that barcode quality standards are the basis for predicting whether or not a barcode will scan correctly, or at all, as it travels through the supply chain to the end customer or [...]

Business hates uncertainty. They invest in systems to comply with standards that identify and control variables. This includes standards for upstream materials and components, manufacturing [...]

What do our barcode testing customers actually get from us? Let’s go through the process. Customer Labels or PDF’s? We strongly prefer to test actual labels or package samples, but some [...]

Comments from our testing clients show that the most important work we do is remarkably unremarkable. Unexciting but essential. Looking back on decades of work in barcode quality and compliance, [...]

We got a call from a sporting goods manufacturer. The big box sports store they supplied notified them that their logistics labels were non-compliant. The message was clear–fix it or lose [...]

If your company uses barcodes on a product or process or is responsible for designing or printing barcodes on a label or package, being concerned about barcode quality is a great starting point. [...]

While it is self-evident why barcode verification is necessary, it is less obvious why periodic recalibration of a verifier is important. What could be changing and making it necessary? Isn’t a [...]