While the importance of the barcode system is appreciated by the trade and the food industry, the system has yet to be wholeheartedly followed on all Indian food packaging products. It is now concluded that a barcode is simply another way to encode numbers and letters by using a combination of bars and spaces of different widths. Areas with high reflection are interpreted as spaces, while areas with low reflection are represented as bars.
At Blue Label, we take all the necessary measures, not only to print impressive labels, but also to check and make sure everything is in order before you print your entire order. To ensure your barcodes are ready for the market, we print sample labels and test them with scanners to make sure they work. After the assessment, we will review your barcodes and check if your UPC matches the bars.
Code 128 meets the need with the most compact and complete alphanumeric symbology available. In addition, code 128 is designed with geometrical features to improve the reading performance of the scanner and the auto-chicken. However, companies that need barcodes for external use, for example to track items sold through a third-party retailer, must register through GS1. The organization charges upfront fees, as well as an annual renewal fee, and prices vary depending on the number of barcodes you need. GS1 gives your company a unique ID, known as a GS1 business prefix, that is part of all your barcodes. This membership also gives you access to the GS1 Data Hub, where you can create and manage your barcodes and export these files to a printer.
It’s important to check a barcode to ensure that every reader in the supply chain can successfully interpret a barcode with a low error rate. Supply chain and inventory management simply wouldn’t be possible without the use of barcodes. Instead of manually entering inventory and shipping data for each item into one system, employees can easily scan entire pallets, boxes, and even shipping containers to instantly know what content they contain. Given the sheer scale of products moving through a supply chain, barcodes allow companies to automate an important process to save time and money, even as they scale their operations. Barcode scanners can also streamline onboarding and training, as it takes much less time to teach someone how to use a scanner than it does to enter data manually.
In stores, UPC barcodes are preprinted on most items other than fresh produce from a supermarket. This speeds up processing at exits and helps track items and also reduces cases of shoplifting related upc barcode to exchanging price tags, although thieves can now print their own barcodes. Barcodes that encode a book’s ISBN are also widely preprinted in books, magazines, and other printed materials.