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The total cost of ownership of a barcode verifier varies, but the right verifier can pay for itself over time.  Minor compromises in selecting the right verifier can increase risk. The wrong [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

It seems like an unnecessarily obvious question until you think about it. At first it also seems overly obvious to ask, “What is not barcode quality?” Obviously it is a barcode that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Once the barcode on your product leaves your control, it could encounter a wide variety of scanners. They could be lasers, linear CCD arrays, area CCD arrays, camera-based and maybe even some old [...]

When I met Jeff several years ago, he was a work in progress—and so was Barcode Test. His very life was an expression of his non-conformity. On the other hand, I had about 35 years of barcode [...]

Statistics about barcode use, and in particular, barcode problems are difficult to obtain. Some of the information we have been able to gather is a bit out of date. However, we feel confident [...]