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A barcode verifier is a fairly technical and expensive device but the reason you need one is straightforward: you need to manage your barcode-related risk; you’ve got customer relationships, your [...]

We exhibited our barcode quality products and services at a local trade show recently. One of the visitors commented that barcode quality wasn’t any longer as important an issue in recent years [...]

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Barcode-Test is  exhibiting at the Chicago TAPPI Table Top Trade Fair next week. TAPPI is the leading trade association for packaging and converting TAPPI, for the unfamiliar, is the Technical [...]

A Glimpse into the AIDC Future: WSN Looking way beyond barcodes into the vast universe of sensors, data capture and the internet of things, a recent report from IDTechEX provides a breath-taking [...]

The ISO barcode quality specification for testing and grading of linear barcodes is often misquoted and misunderstood. Two frequently misrepresented parameters for ISO 15416 are the ten-scan [...]

The client, an East Coast medical device company, is a supplier of test kits used to detect specific medical conditions. They were concerned about GS1 Healthcare compliance in their shipping [...]

The most common cause of barcode failure is poor print quality due to bars that are too fat. There are many possible causes: an absorbent substrate, an ink that wicks because of its viscosity, [...]

OK, that title is a bit dramatic—especially from me. But there is more truth than hyperbole in that statement. There is a “…most important thing you can do…”, a thing that is more important than [...]

March 20, 2012 Toshiba has announced what could be the next and final generation of point-of-sale scanners that would mean the end of barcodes. Well, maybe. Is Toshiba’s new scanner the end [...]