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Apologies to those of you for whom this is all review—it may be news to others. Barcode Quality begins way before the press Barcode quality isn’t just a printing issue—it begins in prepress.  [...]

How can you determine what barcode colors are acceptable for linear barcodes? Do you have to actually print a barcode before you can tell if it will work? No! You can fairly easily test possible [...]

Of all the ANSI/ISO parameters, decodability is the one that confounds and confuses most people. Attempts to define it in simple terms (“Decodability is the amount of tolerance left for the [...]

    You learn something new every day. For years I’ve thought that the only reason to use bearer bars around an ITF-14 barcode is to improve the image quality in the flexographic [...]

Verifier Grade: How does it relate to scanning? What does it mean that the verifier grade on your latest labels is a C? Does this guarantee that your barcode will work everywhere it goes? Does an [...]

When Honeywell announced the End of Life Plan for the Quick Check verifier line on June 9, 2011 the replacement options they listed were all Axicon products.  Honeywell stopped all verifier [...]

As everybody in the  industry knows, barcodes on corrugated are a special problem. The undulations of the substrate are a problem; recycled material does not respond to pressure uniformly and [...]

Perfect Order is a milestone which has just been achieved by the healthcare industry. Perfect order is when a healthcare supplier and a healthcare provider use the entire GS1 system to complete a [...]

Back in the 1970’s when the UPC symbol was just gaining acceptance nobody could have fully appreciated how this technology would expand into the broad range of applications in use today. [...]

Yes Virginia, QR Code is not the only game in town. There is competition. This article will attempt the impossible: to briefly discuss what’s out there and how they differ. And differ they [...]