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Professional's Guide to Bar Coding
Bar coding is perhaps the fastest-growing automatic
identification technology in business and industry today.
Individual companies as well as industry groups require
their suppliers to use bar codes for pricing, communication,
data handling, inventory control, and many other
applications.
Companies that have implemented bar coding have often
seen great improvements in their internal controls and
increased efficiency throughout their operations. Briefly
stated, bar coding pays for itself. Its growing popularity
and number of uses suggest that it will become a necessity
for meeting your company’s internal needs and for
satisfying your customers’ requirements.
This guide is designed to help you get started in bar
coding or to improve your current bar coding operation. The
guide covers the basic decisions you will face in assessing
your bar coding needs and implementing a system to meet
them. The guide can also function as a reference source on
the key aspects of bar coding.
Table of Contents
I.
Introduction.............................................................Page
2
II. Assessing Your Labeling Requirements............................3
Label
Functions............................................................3
Symbologies.................................................................3
Labels, Laminating Films
and Adhesives..........................5
III. Setting Up Your System....................................................6
Software........................................................................6
Printing.........................................................................6
In-House vs. Off-Site Label
Printing.............................6
Methods of Printing & Types of
Printers......................7
Printing System
Considerations.................................8
Verification....................................................................9
Bar Code
Reading..........................................................9
IV. Glossary..........................................................................10
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