What a suitable moment in which to pause and say “thank you” to you, our new and loyal readers. It makes all the difference to sense the presence of people out there who are reading, commenting [...]
If you are already familiar with 1D or linear barcodes such as UPC and Code 128, you will find a lot of familiar things in 2D or Matrix symbologies, but some of those familiar things may be done [...]
We recently received an inquiry through the Barcode-Test website with this question: “Is it possible for two GS1-128 barcodes to have slightly different bar patterns, yet scan the exact same [...]
Well, that may be a bit of hyperbole, but here are some pretty bad barcodes: Guess what this looks like to a scanner? …it looks like a white patch of absolutely nothing. Too bad since [...]
When you think about what is happening in the quality community as ISO 9001 and other quality protocols evolve into a risk management standard, you appreciate the unique perspective we have as [...]
VDC Research, a leading technology market analyst form which specializes in barcode and other auto-id technologies, published a new report today (October 1, 2013). The report claims that barcode [...]
What does barcode quality actually mean? Is barcode quality limited to the printed image or does it include the structure of the encoded data? What if the printed image and data structure are [...]
The lead article in the September 17, 2013 Pharmaceutical Online Newsletter is entitled “Mitigate Risk with Package Quality”. It is an excellent article and makes several cogent points about the [...]
Just because these barcode mistakes are simple does not mean they are obvious—many of them are subtle—so subtle that some verifiers don’t detect them. Barcode mistakes fall into two broad [...]
It took over twenty years from the issuance of Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland’s patent for a printed barcode pattern (1952), for the grocery industry to recognize and adopt the technology [...]
