Nine Important Reasons to use a Bar Code Testing Service

1. Independence A verification report from an independent bar code testing service carries a lot of weight with a customer. It says you are serious about quality and submit your process and your [...]

First of all, what does it mean when bar code verifiers  are ISO compliant? It means the test device has been independently tested and shown to be operating within stated hardware specifications [...]

Because there are not a lot of brands of bar code verifiers, one might think these devices are all pretty much the same. One would be wrong. There are significant differences between bar code [...]

    You are invited!     The Barcode-Test blog has reached its 100th posting (whew!).  In celebration, this is an invitation and an opportunity for you to speak. You may feel [...]

Maybe the first question is why do you test a bar code—why is it necessary? It is necessary to test a bar code because when it doesn’t work right, it causes huge problems and potentially huge [...]

  Now that the QuickCheck® has been off the market for about a year, how does that product look as we look back on it? What have we learned and what does the future look like? There are [...]

Bar width reduction or BWR is compensation in the bar code data file for press or dot gain. The act of putting ink onto a substrate almost always results in that image spreading. Scanning a bar [...]

It sounds like a simple enough question; you know you need a verifier, so you go looking for the best deal on a device that tests bar codes. End of story, right? Well, actually not. Here are ten [...]

The term “high performance” associated with a bar code usually equates to a very high, nearly 100% first-read rate.  That of course is the upper limit of how good a bar code could possibly be [...]

The guest author for this article is George Wright IV, Vice President, Consulting and Business Development at Product Identification and Processing Systems, Inc.He is the vice-chairman of AIM’s [...]