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Barcode technology is undergoing a seismic shift, doing what barcodes do very well: adapt to change. Perhaps as remarkable as the change itself is the fact it has taken this long, but with pain [...]

Direct Part Marked (DPM) barcodes are a special breed. DPM barcodes are imaged directly onto metal, plastic or other substrates. They are not printed with a pigment on a label, paper or other [...]

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 [...]

Use of DPM barcodes is on the rise. For the unfamiliar, DPM is Direct Part Marking. It is used in applications where a label or tag won’t work. For example, an engine block or subassembly like an [...]

Use of DPM barcodes is on the rise. For the unfamiliar, DPM is Direct Part Marking. It is used in applications where a label or tag won’t work. For example, an engine block or subassembly like an [...]

As a barcode quality and compliance test lab, we get a lot of questions from callers who are struggling to understand the verification report. We have noticed that those questions seem to change [...]

It seems like a whole new world out there, so much has changed, and quickly.  Pandemic, overwhelmed supply chains, international conflict, inflation–a perfect storm of uncertainty that has [...]

Examining the entire process of getting a high performance barcode on a label or package, there are seven critical steps where mistakes should be avoided. Each step is critically important. [...]

For years, we have beaten the drums about compliance. Our barcode quality training module presses the point: compliance is a two-part discipline that includes ISO print quality and industry [...]

Captain Obvious has things to say to the supply chain. Who is in the Supply Chain business? First, who is in the supply chain business? Everybody is in the supply chain business. Some of us are [...]