How to Create Professional Barcode Labels

How to Create Professional Barcode Labels

By Ashley Brooking

Barcode labels can be very handy not only for large companies but for small businesses too. Many large commercial printers may not produce this type of labels in smaller quantities which can cause a problem for the small business owner. Nobody wants to spend more than necessary or be forced to waste many labels simply because they don't actually need that many.

Barcode label printer

Bar codes improve data management significantly, and almost every business
is using very advanced versions of this technology today. Bar codes speed up
data collection considerably by storing significant amounts of data
digitally in small black lines that can be easily machine-read. Better
printing technology, label materials, scanning systems and wireless
communication systems have made bar codes even more indispensable

Choosing the Right Barcode Scanner

Choosing the correct barcode scanner for your application.
As most people know a barcode is a way of identifying a product or item by a number, usually 11 or 12 digits. This information is analyzed by a computer and matches the encoded barcode to a product or item in a database and retrieves the associated information while updating the inventory and purchase of the item.
Regardless of the use of the barcode, the information needs to be entered into a computer to be interpreted. That is where barcode scanners come into play.

Understanding Barcode Labels

Understanding Barcode Labels

By John Barth

The bar code is a tool to efficiently and accurately identify items and collect information. The patent for the bar code was issued to Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver in 1952. This first bar code was not the rectangle of thick and thin lines that we now know, but a bull's-eye-type symbol made of concentric circles. It looked much like the rings on the inside of a tree.

Types of Barcodes

Various types of barcodes exist that are useful for the storage of important and useful data.

Barcodes are useful in identifying an item or a product with a series of lines, spacing, numbers, images, or data arranged in a way that can be easily read by a computer or scanner that has been specially designed to read different types of barcodes. Where barcodes where once mainly a series of lines containing different widths, lengths, numerals, and spacing, many different styles and types of barcodes exist today.

Barcode History

Barcodes Sweep the World
By Tony Seideman

Supermarkets are a perilous business. They must stock thousands of products in scores of brands and sizes to sell at painfully small markups. Keeping close track of them all, and maintaining inventories neither too large nor too small is critical. Yet for most of this century, as stores got bigger and the profusion on the shelves multiplied, the only way to find out what was on hand was by shutting the place down and counting every can, bag, and parcel.