Almost every discussion about barcodes is about the critical role they play in supply chains, but barcodes have usefulness far beyond tracking a product from manufacture to the end user. Of equal [...]
1. My barcodes scan fine with my Smartphone By design, a barcode scanner must use a laser-emulating red light. Smartphones use ambient light or white light. Scanners cannot see anything printed [...]
Quality is always important. Challenging times make quality even more important. This also applies to barcode quality. Supply chains are always critical and arguably more so in challenging times. [...]
Why is barcode quality important? The best response is to discuss where barcodes are used. Hint: they are EVERYWHERE. Let’s start with your everyday life. Consumer Products [...]
Using a barcode testing service offers significant benefits to two groups: those who do not (yet) own a barcode verifier and those who do. The benefits for the former are obvious. Even those who [...]
The monthly newsletter Amazon Science recently published an article on how they are working to eliminate barcodes from their distribution centers. The Thomas Industry Update suggests this [...]
Use of DPM barcodes is on the rise. For the unfamiliar, DPM is Direct Part Marking. It is used in applications where a label or tag won’t work. For example, an engine block or subassembly like an [...]
As a barcode quality and compliance test lab, we get a lot of questions from callers who are struggling to understand the verification report. We have noticed that those questions seem to change [...]
Why verify a barcode? What could possibly go wrong? Here is an incomplete, constantly evolving answer. Verification is all about barcode quality—so let’s start by defining of what “barcode [...]
The death of the ubiquitous UPC symbol has been predicted almost from the start. The parade of successors has including everything from RFID to computer recognition, but it looks like the UPC [...]
