Retailers Prepare for DataBar technology

Global standards organisation GS1 has been working on the introduction of its DataBar (which is about half the size of a normal barcode) for several years. The DataBar will exist alongside present barcodes, rather than being a replacement for them.

UPC Bar Code Marks 35th Anniversary

One of the world’s best-known symbols, the UPC comprises a row of 59 machine-readable black and white bars and 12 human-readable digits. Both the bars and the digits convey the same information: the identity of a specific product and its manufacturer.

Types of barcodes & their description

barcode overview
There are many different types of barcode, often referred to as barcode symbologies. These have evolved in different places for different uses, but all have the common purpose of encoding a string of characters as a set of bars and spaces. The barcode you need will depend on what it is you need to [...]

Bar Code Symbologies

Bar codes are like a printed version of the Morse code. Different bar and space patterns are used to represent different characters. Sets of these patterns are grouped together to form a “symbology”. There are many types of bar code symbologies each having their own special characteristics and features. Most symbologies were designed to meet [...]

Benefits of Barcodes in Librariess

Collection Management
The use of barcodes helps to automate the process of tracking all your books, periodicals, music, movies and other lending materials. Barcodes are associated with item records in your Library Management Software and can hold critical information such as item number, call number, copy and volume numbers as well as associated codes used in [...]

Fudged registers in tribal schools so Thane introduces biometrics for kids

Worried over falling attendance in schools in its tribal areas and to check manipulation of registers by teachers, the Thane Zilla Parishad has turned to biometrics to ensure students mark themselves present with thumb impressions. This is a first in Maharashtra where the tribal areas are more infamous for malnutrition cases.
“We wanted to curb the [...]

Barcode History

The barcode history start at began of 1948. With Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to undertake research to develop a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland about [...]

The Benefits of Using Barcodes

Improve Operational Efficiency
Since barcodes permit faster and more accurate recording of information, work in process can move quickly and be tracked precisely. Quite a bit of time can be spent tracking down the location or status of projects, folders, instruments, materials, or anything else that moves within an organization. Barcodes can help you keep better [...]

A Short Introduction to Barcodes.

Here is some information that will give you a basic introduction to barcodes.
How does a barcode work?
Each character is represented by a pattern of wide and narrow bars. A barcode reader uses a photosensor to convert the barcode into an electrical signal as it moves across a barcode.  The scanner then measures the relative widths [...]

Barcode data

Barcode data (sometimes called point-of-sale data) is information from barcodes that is automatically gathered as a consumer’s purchases are put through a check-out. Typically, the information gathered would identify which customer bought what products, at what prices, and when and where the transaction took place.
Point-of-sale (POS) terminals collect enormous volumes of such data every [...]