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For commercial printers, packaging companies and brand owners, you might think their worst nightmare would be a barcode that does not scan. A reasonable assumption—and wrong. When a scanner does [...]

Our barcode testing lab gets a lot of inquiries about PHARMA-CODE, the majority from printers. PHARMA-CODE resembles a conventional barcode but the deeper you dig, the more different it reveals [...]

Now more than ever It is important to avoid obstacles in getting test kits, ventilators, pharmaceuticals and other essential medical resources through the supply chain and into hospitals. The UDI [...]

Barcode performance is has improved in recent year for several reasons. Digital printing is one reason. Better scanners is another. Don’t these make barcode verification unnecessary? Probably not [...]

Several factors support the belief that barcode verification is obsolete. The availability of very aggressive scanners makes barcode verification obsolete. “It stands to reason,” say the [...]

Barcode Test LLC is completely focused on barcode quality. We hear on a nearly daily basis how imperiled we are, hastening into extinction. Digital imaging scanners are capable of reading [...]

One of the mistakes often made in business is failing to ask the obvious question. Often the obvious question deserves a carefully considered answer: the answer to the obvious question is not [...]

How do you figure out what is wrong with a barcode that does not scan? Where do you start? The obvious answer is to use a verifier. Usually—but not always—when a scanner cannot decode a barcode, [...]

 Using the verification report to resolve print quality and other problems is a straightforward process. Many of the ISO15415 parameters for 2D symbols will be familiar to someone who has worked [...]

Pack Expo and Healthcare Packaging Expo convened last week. The show alternates between Las Vegas and Chicago, and we have attended at both venues for years. Barcode quality and verification is [...]