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University of Maryland alumnus and inventor of the Universal Product Code, George Laurer, has died. His funeral was held on Monday, December 9 . Mr. Laurer was an electrical engineer at IBM at [...]

We talk a lot about barcode print quality, but it is equally important to confirm that your GS1 number assignments are correct. The GS1 GTIN Management Standard spells it all out, but it can be [...]

An ISO compliant barcode verifier is the absolute best way to protect yourself and your company. A bad barcode can do considerable damage to your business, your supply chain and your customer [...]

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 [...]

At GS1 Connect Conference in Las Vegas, a chart was distributed, showing the various levels of risk associated specifically with poor data quality in supply chain operations, in-store operations [...]

For most of its history, barcode quality has been a matter of print quality: can the scanner read the barcode? Originally barcode verification was based on measuring bar and space widths. This [...]

When a barcode verifier cannot scan a barcode, it is a puzzling, frustrating situation. What could be worse? What about when the verifier reads the barcode but the scanner does not? Now you are [...]

Axicon, the UK-based barcode verifier company, has an exciting display solution for their range of 1D verifiers. There aren’t a lot of companies manufacturing barcode verifiers. Axicon is one of [...]

Recently I ran across an excellent article* about Measurement Systems Analysis. The opening paragraph caught my attention: “Despite a persistent and incremental march toward automation, people [...]

The engineers have taken over. In order fulfillment, the current focus is on systems. They speak in acronyms. Here are just a few: WMS (Warehouse Management System) SCM (Supply Chain Management [...]