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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

Improved data accuracy is the single most common motivation for implementing a barcode system. Often the backbone of operations, data entry enables a company to produce accurate reports and predictions about future needs and actions.

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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Print Your Own Barcodes 

Free Online Barcode Generator

This free service can be used to generate individual barcodes, or called via URL's to include inline PNG or JPEG images directly into your documents.

Just click on the barcode below to try it out.

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Wikipedia Describes Barcodes 

How Barcodes Work

Category: File - :UPC A.svg|thumb|A UPC-A barcode symbol.

A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data, which shows certain datas on on certain products. Originally, barcodes 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. They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images termed 2D (2 dimensional) matrix codes or symbologies. Although 2D systems use symbols other than bars, they are generally referred to as barcodes as well. Barcodes can be read by optical scanners called barcode readers, or scanned from an image by special software.

The first use of barcodes was to label railroad cars, but they were not commercially successful until they were used to automate supermarket checkout systems, a task in which they have become almost universal. Their use has spread to many other roles as well, tasks that are generically re...

Barcode Products on offer at eBay 

Everything relating to barcodes that eBay can find

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Barcode Product Manufacturers 

The Major Producers of Barcode Products

This is a list of the major producers of barcode related products. It is not meant to be exhaustive, so if you feel I have omitted an important company relevant to this market, please leave a note in the Guestbook.
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.
Nordic ID
Nordic ID is one of the leading manufacturers of wireless terminals and hand-held instruments in Europe. We are pioneers in the use of RFID technology and are dedicated to continuous product development designed to meet the specialised needs of retail, industry and logistics.

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Barcode Products From Amazon 

Great Value Barcode Products

Ccd Contact Barcode Scanner USB Light Rugged Design Black

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Hand Held Contact USB CCD Point of Sale Barcode Scanner

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Metrologic Barcode Scanners 

Available from Amazon.co.uk

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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