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Barcodes are used in merchandise management to optimise processes in retail, industrial production and logistics. The data encoded in the barcode can be automatically read by scanners, enabling the unique identification of individual goods and parts or even bundled storage and transport units.
Labels printed with your EAN, EAN-128, UPC, QR and Datamatrix codes.
Barcode labels enable products and goods to be clearly identified.
The information encoded in the barcode can be automatically read by scanners.
Barcode labels can be customised to display changing information such as the best-before date.
Barcodes are widely used in industry, logistics and retail.
Barcode labels enable products to be traced along the supply chain, which is particularly important in the event of product recalls.
Barcodes are widely used in industry, logistics and retail to uniquely identify products and provide them with metadata. They consist of a series of stripes of varying widths and a cryptic column of numbers at the bottom. This technology was invented in 1959 and finally introduced in the USA in 1973. The main advantage of barcodes is their low-cost implementation, which has made them a widely used standard.
Barcodes can either be printed directly onto packaging or applied to products as adhesive labels. Both variants serve to uniquely identify goods. Adhesive labels offer the advantage that they can be individually adapted to each product. This means that other data, such as the best-before date, can be added in addition to the EAN number.
Barcodes are read using optical readers such as laser scanners and camera scanners (imagers), although conventional smartphone cameras are now also capable of doing this. A two-dimensional development of the barcode is the QR code, which, in addition to pure identification, is often linked to websites and can therefore store more information. Another variant is the data matrix code, which is popular in industrial applications because it can also be printed on extremely small areas.
