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When barcodes scan incorrectly, or fail to scan altogether, it is always an unexpected event. It should not happen. There are five basic steps everyone can take to give a barcode every advantage [...]

The long term cost of small compromises in barcode quality can be huge. This can seem to be unimportant, but they grow into major factors that can lead to regret or even damage to a business. [...]

Everybody wants a shortcut. Something that gets you to your goal, whatever that may be, without undue delay, expense or obstacles. Shortcuts have trade-offs: that shorter route might be bumpy; [...]

  Decodability is one of the most difficult to understand of the barcode standards. The definition, “the ability of a barcode to be decoded” is simple but unclear for understanding its [...]

Barcode quality is risk management. This risk can take several forms. A chargeback is the cost of stickers and labor to over-label bad barcodes. But the damages do not end there. A further risk [...]

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 [...]