The Future Cost of Little Compromises in Barcode Quality

We’ve written previously about the total cost of ownership implications of various types of barcode verifiers. You can review that article here. The long term costs of seemingly minor compromises [...]

  Once again we have evidence that the only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. Recently there has been an update to the ISO 15416 specification for 1D or linear barcodes, and it [...]

Why would a barcode verifier produce inconsistent readings on the same barcode? One would expect readings with little or no variation. How can this happen? Let’s start with the device itself. At [...]

Amazon has just done something nobody ever thought they would do—they announced plans to open a brick-and-mortar store. The first of what could grow into many stores will be located in Seattle [...]

Scanners are increasingly better at reading low quality barcodes. Barcode printing has also improved: higher resolution, better control over line width and gain. Haven’t these advancements [...]

Ironically it seems that the more important and prevalent barcode quality becomes, the more frequently we encounter situations where barcode scanners are being considered and used instead of [...]

The increasing use of DPM barcodes in a variety of applications is also giving rise to questions and concerns about why they do not always work as expected. Isn’t the whole point of direct part [...]

Direct Part Mark or DPM barcodes pose a special set of challenges for verification. As the name implies, DPM barcodes are imaged directly onto a (usually) metal substrate using a variety of [...]

Those of you who are familiar with 1D barcode verification will be familiar with some of the ISO parameters in 2D verification, but there are also some aspects that will be very unfamiliar. These [...]

When your barcode doesn’t scan, it is like falling off an emotional cliff. With no information other than the deafening silence of no “beep”, how do you determine what’s wrong? The obvious answer [...]