Barcodes Are Everywhere
Barcodes and barcode related products are all around us. Virtually everything in your kitchen store cupboards either has, or used to have a barcode printed on it. Every book, magazine or newspaper you purchase is barcoded. Nearly every shop you visit will have barcode scanners attached to their Cash Registers or Point of Sale Terminals and many of them will have barcode printers located somewhere in the store.
This lens is intended to provide you with an introduction to the workings of barcodes, together with relevant links to authority sites that will provide more detailed information, should you require it.
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Benefits of Barcoding
Efficiency, Consistency and Improved Inventory Management
Besides providing near perfect accuracy, bar coding also enables users to work faster, without sacrificing accuracy. A good working example of this can be found at the supermarket checkout. Prior to barcode scanning, the cashiers had to rely on price labels fixed to the goods or their memory for prices. Scanning not only ensures accuracy of pricing, whilst speeding up the checkout process, it also enables the retailer to implement sophisticated real-time stock management systems. These stock management systems allow the retailer to provide a better inventory service for the customer, whilst implementing ultra-efficiency into the supply chain.
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Wikipedia Describes Barcodes
How Barcodes Work
Category: Image - :UPC-A-036000291452.png|thumb|A UPC-A barcode symbol.
A bar code (also barcode) is an optical machine-readable representation of data. Originally, bar codes represented data in the widths (lines) and the spacings of parallel lines and may be referred to as linear or 1D (1 dimensional) barcodes or symbologies. But they also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images termed 2D (2 dimensional) matrix codes or symbologies. In spite of there being no bars, 2D systems are generally referred to as barcodes as well.
The first use of barcodes was to automate grocery checkout systems, a task where they have become almost universal today. Their use has spread to many other roles as well, tasks that are generically referred to as Auto ID Data Capture (AIDC). Newer systems, like RFID, are attempting to make inroads in the AIDC market, but the simplicity, universality and low-cost of barcodes has limited the role of these newer systems. It...
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Barcode Product Manufacturers
The Major Producers of Barcode Products
- Metrologic Instruments
- Forbes magazine recently ranked Metrologic Instruments as one of its top growth companies specializing in the design, manufacture and marketing of sophisticated imaging and scanning solutions.
- Motorola
- Track inventory and enjoy faster check-out with a robust line of bar code scanners and scan engines designed to meet every need.
Motorola's bar code scanners and scan engines are the foundation of mobile enterprises, providing seamless integration with other networks and information systems, and delivering superior performance. - Zebra
- Zebra helps companies identify, locate and track assets, transactions and people with on-demand specialty digital printing and automatic identification solutions in more than 100 countries around the world. More than 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies trust innovative and reliable Zebra printers, supplies, RFID products and software to increase productivity, improve quality, lower costs, and deliver better customer service.
- Datalogic Scanning, Inc.
- Datalogic Scanning, Inc. - Worldwide Leader in High Performance Retail POS Scanners, Scanners/Scales and General Purpose and Ruggedized Handheld Scanning Products
- OPTICON USA
- Opticon Inc. is committed to innovative business solutions and leading edge technology development. See what's new for 2008 on our New Product page.
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The_Book_Garden wrote...
Some Good Info, Though it may be useful to discuss the differences between LED & Laser scanners. Also, mentioning Keyboard Wedges & portable barcode readers.
Posted March 04, 2008
Metrologic Barcode Scanners
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These Metrologic Barcode Readers are perfect for attaching to your PC or PoS Terminal for low to medium volume scanning environments.
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