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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 [...]

Decodability differs from other ISO 15416 parameters for linear barcode quality. Decodability resembles the other ISO parameters in that if it fails, the barcode may not scan. However, it is [...]

What You Believe vs What You Know Regarding barcode quality, what you may believe isn’t necessarily the same as what you know. Using a smartphone to “verify” a barcode is a good example. “We [...]

Accidental deaths due to medication errors are a grave concern within the healthcare sector, shedding light on the critical need for improved practices and safeguards. Annually, an estimated [...]

Barcodes are a visual technology. A simple way to test a barcode is to look at it—it just makes sense. Here’s what to look for: Linear barcodes (parallel lines and spaces) always have bars of [...]

Some of our barcode testing clients eventually buy a verifier. It is a natural progression and has certain advantages. Shipping barcode samples to us is inconvenient, and although our response [...]

Consumer Frustration The inconvenience and aggravation of non-working barcodes at retail checkout is how many people understand the importance of barcode quality. People are also generally aware [...]

We have made the case in previous articles that barcode verification is risk management. We stand by that truism, but barcode verification is so much more than just risk management. That is just [...]

Recently we were asked to weigh in on an ongoing conversation between a label printer and their customer. The GS1 Databar symbols the printer was producing had an 8 mil X dimension which is [...]