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Handheld Inventory Cycle Counts are Quick & Accurate

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Bar Code Verifiers Deliver Economical Verification in a Quick Manner

Bar code verifiers are an accurate and cost-saving manner of checking bar code standards. They are normally utilized in industrial environments. A verifier will measure the format and decode a bar code to insure correct solutions are being enhanced. The bar code is checked using a specific standard, normally ANSI and ISO, to make sure it is readable by commercial scanners. Businesses may lose income if the scanners are reading incorrectly. Costs will also rise if a company has to pay a fine for false compliance. Bar code verifiers perform a series of eight tests and give each one a grade from 0.0 to 4.0. An acceptable grade has to be 2.5 or above. Each line can also be tested to help improve the final grade. Symbols are measured by the bar code verifiers to insure the reader is accepting the bar codes you have produced. Labels produced with label printers should already possess a built-in verifier for accurate readings. ANSI, CEN, and ISO are measured for retail print quality. Bar code verifiers are compact and portable. They will insure bar code quality guidelines.

Current bar code verifiers collaborate with LCD and colored LED s. The LCD image can be flipped for right or left handed users. Scroll and select buttons allow you to get complete test results. Manufacturers that make bar code readers have to reflect the quality standards set forth. Checks on the readers are done utilizing static or manual verification and online verifications. Online checks verify different bar codes and measure the graphical display.

Bar code verifiers have to follow the international standards. They need to meet ISO/IEC 15416 standard for linear bar codes. Two-dimensional bar codes should be ISO/IEC 15415. Verifiers are required to be produced in compliance.

A Quick Guide to Barcode Equipment

A complete barcode system will consist of software, scanners, a printer or labeler and labels for thermo transfer or thermo direct printing. Also of interest are mobile terminals for mobile data acquisition with a built-in scanner or reader, a display and a keyboard. A POS (point of sale) solution will require laser barcode scanners with high throughput and automatic triggering for hands-free barcode scanning.

Barcode Software

Barcodes are created with special software. While barcode software for Microsoft Windows is available, best suited for barcode creation are Apple Macintosh computers. Macs are preferable due to their strong position in the DTP, prepress and graphics market segment. A typical barcode software will support the common symbologies, calculate checksums automatically and will provide a variety of output options with support for the most common images formats (like PNG, TIFF or JPG) and also for Post Script or EPS.

A cheap alternative to dedicated barcode generators are so called barcode fonts. However, the quality a barcode created with such a font will usually not conform to the respective standards.

Depending on the application the use of dedicated, barcode enabled, label printing software may be advised. For example, such software can be used to print sequential barcodes (for serial numbers) or print logos or product images next to the actual barcode.

Barcode Scanner

Barcode Scanners, also known as barcode readers exist in various forms: The most common type are laser scanners. Here a moving laser beam scans the code which results in fast and error free reading. A cheap alternative to laser scanners are CCD scanners that feature a row of light emitting diodes and photo detectors. The earliest type of barcode reader where so called barcode wands, also known a magic wands. Here a single light emitting diode (LED) and a single photo detector are used to detect the typical black and white pattern of a barcode. While laser and CCD barcode scanners scan a barcode as a whole the barcode wand has to be swiped across the code to read it.

Barcode Printers

Barcode printers are used to print the barcode on self adhesive labels. Today most barcode label printers work in either thermo direct or thermo transfer mode. Using the thermo direct principle the print head applies heat to selected parts of the label which then turn dark. This is the same principle as is used with older fax machines. Thermo direct labels are sensitive to light and should not be used if they have to last longer than a few days or weeks. Typical applications are address labels which only have to last a few days.

With thermo transfer printers a heat sensitive ribbon (thermo transfer ribbon) sits between the print head and the label. As heat is applied to the ribbon, ink transfers (hence the name) from the ribbon to the label. Labels that were printed with thermo transfer are very durable. However, besides the actual label the transfer ribbon is another consumable which will increase the printing cost.

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Barcode Verifiers Deliver Economical Barcode Verification in a Handy and Quick Manner

Barcode Verifiers are widely used in healthcare industry, transportation industry and industrial markets and the businesses that produce barcodes.

Barcode Verifiers provide an ergonomic, accurate, durable and cost-effective way of checking barcode standards. Barcode Verifiers are perfect masters when it comes to checking and measuring the format of a barcode. A verifier decodes and measures the format of a barcode in order to grade the results for corrective solutions.

Barcode verification involves checking of a bar code against a defined set of standards, usually, ANSI and/or ISO with the main objective of ensuring that the bar code will be readable by standard commercial bar code scanners and readers. It also ensures that a barcode verifier can pick up the correct barcode data. Failure of Barcodes to read correctly could add to the cost of your business in addition to the fines slapped by retailers for non compliant barcodes. Due to this, product tracking and electronic supply control may become difficult and cumbersome. Scanners and Barcode verifiers work in a similar manner except that Barcode Verifiers perform a series of eight tests. Each of the eight tests is attributed a grade ranging from 0.0 to 4.0 and the lowest of the eight tests is termed as the scan grade.

For majority of applications, a 2.5 grade is taken as the minimum acceptable grade, and the numbers for each test line can be further evaluated in order to make it easy to adjust the printer to improve the verification grade. Barcode Verifiers measure barcode symbol quality to ensure that every barcode reader can read the barcodes produced by you. However, if you produce labels using label printers, you should use a printer with an inbuilt verifier for effective reading. Barcode Verifiers analyze Barcode quality against traditional quality parameters and ANSI-CEN-ISO print quality guidelines for Retail, Healthcare and Industrial applications. You can choose from the various Barcode verifier options including compact and portable ones to check barcode quality against traditional quality parameters and ANSI X3.182/CEN1635 bar code print quality guidelines.

Latest Barcode Verifiers can be used in conjunction with LCD and colored LEDs to check the results.  To accommodate both right and left handed operators, the LCD image can be flipped for reading in either course. You can also use scroll and select buttons to quickly display complete test results. Manufacturers that produce barcodes must adhere to the quality standards like ANSI, ISO and other industry standards. Barcode Verification can be done in two manners, Static Verification and On-Line Verification. During Static Verification individual barcodes are manually verified where as in On-Line Verification different barcodes can be measured simultaneously along with the graphical display of the grading trend of each barcode. Barcode Verifier should comply with the following International Standards:

•Barcode verifiers need to be produced in strict compliance  to linear barcode verifier compliance standard ISO 15426-1 or two- dimensional barcode verifier standard ISO 15426-2 T

•International quality specification for Liner Barcode Verifiers is ISO/IEC 15416 whereas for two-dimensional barcodes, it is ISO/IEC 15415

•ISO IEC 15416 standard  has replaced the European Standard EN 1635