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    You are invited!     The Barcode-Test blog has reached its 100th posting (whew!).  In celebration, this is an invitation and an opportunity for you to speak. You may feel [...]

Maybe the first question is why do you test a bar code—why is it necessary? It is necessary to test a bar code because when it doesn’t work right, it causes huge problems and potentially huge [...]

  Now that the QuickCheck® has been off the market for about a year, how does that product look as we look back on it? What have we learned and what does the future look like? There are [...]

Bar width reduction or BWR is compensation in the bar code data file for press or dot gain. The act of putting ink onto a substrate almost always results in that image spreading. Scanning a bar [...]

It sounds like a simple enough question; you know you need a verifier, so you go looking for the best deal on a device that tests bar codes. End of story, right? Well, actually not. Here are ten [...]

The term “high performance” associated with a bar code usually equates to a very high, nearly 100% first-read rate.  That of course is the upper limit of how good a bar code could possibly be [...]

The guest author for this article is George Wright IV, Vice President, Consulting and Business Development at Product Identification and Processing Systems, Inc.He is the vice-chairman of AIM’s [...]

The testing lab has been very busy at Barcode-Test LLC in recent months. In several cases our testing services were hired to settle a disagreement between the brand owner and the label printer; [...]

This posting will be uncharacteristically personal but I hope you find it relevant and interesting. Earlier this week I had the honor of attending the 2012 AIDC Technical Institute at the Russ [...]

Having spent many years studying, interpreting and explaining the ANSI/ISO 15416-1 specification for quality of the printed barcode, one wants to believe that the most common cause of barcode [...]