Ten Powerful Reasons Barcode Verifiers Make Financial Sense

Everybody seems to agree that barcode verifiers are expensive—that’s why some “clever” people foolishly use scanners instead, and some others don’t verify at all. Eventually they will learn, but [...]

Barcode problems are often the result of unclear relationships between a printer and their customer. Customers may complain and even threaten legal action without considering circumstances beyond [...]

  Hasn’t this drum already been beaten to death? How could there possibly be anything new or interesting to say about barcode quality? Well, read on and then decide. Everybody already knows [...]

Barcode font problems are a common occurrence. Bar code fonts are a lousy way to generate a bar code. To prove our point, we did a very unscientific study by doing an online search of the term [...]

Barcodes fail for a lot of reasons. The reasons barcodes fail fall into two broad categories:  they either fail because of poor image quality or because of flawed data quality. Poor image quality [...]

  We received an urgent call from a company who found us online—they are printing a Code 128 symbol in black ink on a metal tag and it is not scanning consistently.  Their verifier was [...]

Best practices for any company involved in barcoding is to have a barcode quality policy. Who is a company “…involved in barcoding…? The short answer is any company with potential liability if a [...]

Why do different barcode scanners behave differently? Even some scanners of the same brand and model behave differently. Why is this? Barcode scanners, like other devices, are manufactured to a [...]

Barcodes are everywhere. Today there are barcodes on medications, patient wristbands, airline boarding passes and luggage tags, manufacturing sub-assemblies such a circuit boards and components, [...]

MEMO TO EVERYONE who predicted the death of barcoding, whether because of the rise of RFID technology, automatic product recognition, Near Field Communication or (fill in the blank): Barcode [...]