Article: Beginning January 1, scanners, cash registers and other equipment used by North American retailers are supposed to be upgraded to read the 13-digit bar codes commonly used everywhere else in the world.(Business Briefs ...)(Brief Article)

Article: North American Resorts Inc. closes agreement with American Clinical Labs Inc.
Business Wire;  October 8, 1996 ;     384 words ...ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1996--North American Resorts Inc. ( North American ) (EBB:NIAR), a publicly traded vacation...ACL ). Under the terms of the agreement, North American acquired substantially all of the assets...

Article: FDA wants bar codes on all pharmaceuticals. (Industry News).(Food and Drug Administration proposes law requiring bar codes on biological products, drugs)
Label & Narrow Web;  April 1, 2003 ;     342 words ......proposed a regulation mandating the use of bar codes on drugs and biological products. If...require hospitals to use scanners and bar codes in an effort to reduce medical error...of hospital medications currently have bar codes. The Food and Drug Administration estimates...

Article: The new North American. (Dime Mortgage Co and North American Mortagage Co merger)
Mortgage Banking;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Dime's purchase of the independent North American Mortgage has created an origination...Florida, and the formerly independent North American Mortgage Company of Santa Rosa, California...sabotages the union. Dime's acquisition of North American last year is turning out to be a ...

Article: Challenge #1: FDA's bar code initiative. (Special Unit-Dose Packaging).(use of bar codes reduces dosage errors)
Food & Drug Packaging;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......started the regulatory process to require bar codes on packages of prescription and commonly...propose the use of linear [emphasis added] bar codes, in part, because of their use in the...leading drug companies have started to add bar codes to their packages. On December 31, 2002...

Article: Bar Codes On the Web!
Business Wire;  March 12, 2001 ;     334 words ......2001 Web sites can now generate bar codes in real time allowing anyone browsing a given site to display and print bar codes on the fly. Why is this so important...labels, bills of lading, RMA's, etc. Bar codes are an integral part of the inventory...

Article: New technology reads `hidden' bar codes: NASA reads bar codes through paint, other materials. (Technology: ADC).
Frontline Solutions;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...New methods of reading bar codes through paint and other materials...coatings. That ability to read hidden bar codes (and other marks) is particularly...efficiencies, the ability to read hidden bar codes could also improve security, suggests...

Article: Demand for new and better bar codes spurs changes in marking equipment: emerging technologies tackle coding challenges, both large and small, for foods and pharmaceuticals.(Coding Equipment)
Food & Drug Packaging;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......pharmaceutical manufacturers to place bar codes on drug labels and/or packaging, down...have already voluntarily begun using bar codes on unit-dose packaging. Pfizer Inc. announced...in January that it had begun to apply bar codes containing the NDC, lot number and expiration...

Article: Revolutionary Intermec Intellibeam EX25 Scan Engine Uses Area Imaging Technology to Scan Wide Range of Bar Codes in Any Orientation from 6 Inches to 50 Feet.
Business Wire;  September 12, 2006 ;     455 words ......First near-far scan engine to read bar codes in any orientation --Imaging capabilities...scan engine reads and decodes 1D and 2D bar codes in any orientation from six inches to...productivity. The EX25 can read and decode bar codes in any orientation, so workers don't...

Article: FDA final rule requires bar codes on human drugs, biological products.
Transplant News;  March 29, 2004 ;     377 words ......FDA) has issued a final rule requiring bar codes on labels of thousands of human drugs...technology to promote higher quality of care. Bar codes can help doctors, nurses and hospitals...also calls for the inclusion of linear bar codes on most prescription drugs and on certain...

Article: Using bar codes in the lab.(Massachusetts General Hospital, TriCore Reference Laboratories )
Medical Laboratory Observer;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......its recommendations for the adoption of bar codes at point-of-care technology. MGH has...along the way in the MGH pathology lab, bar codes on specimen slides are scanned, uploading...technicians to print high-resolution bar codes, which reduces the specimen's 12 to 15...

Article: BARZ_OUT Pro(TM) 5.0 Simplifies Bar Code Printing with CUPS, IPP and PostScript Support; Linux and UNIX Users Can Easily Add Bar Codes to Documents and Reports and Output Them to Networked Postscript Printers.
Business Wire;  November 8, 2005 ;     508 words ......Linux and UNIX system users to print bar codes on documents and reports. BARZ_OUT 5...PostScript-compatible printer can output bar codes without additional drivers, fonts, middleware...extremely easy for customers to include bar codes on documents and forms, said Unibar President...

Article: Bar codes and computers help retailers compete. (Archery Aisle)
Shooting Industry;  July 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......a computer to be competitive. But as bar codes have become standard in most industries...you can walk the floor and scan the bar codes of the items you need, then download...many small retailers away from using bar codes is how much they think the system costs...

Article: Symagery Introduces SX3000C; First Color Megapixel Imager for AIDC Industry; High-Resolution Engine Enables Capture of Color Images and Bar Codes for Scanner, Kiosk Applications.
Business Wire;  September 13, 2004 ;     622 words ......images and both color and conventional bar codes. Its high-quality, high resolution 1...first time reads - even with multiple bar codes - for the operator. --Provides the versatility...selection of both color and conventional bar codes - linear, stacked and 2D - make the SX3000C...

Article: Bar code_verifiers_: bar codes must be sharp, accurate and consistent throughout the press run. Verifiers and validation equipment ensure the accuracy that is essential to the labeled product.(Industry Overview)
Label & Narrow Web;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......depends on an accurately printed bar code. Bar codes appear in a variety of sizes and styles. The world of bar codes, which is overseen by the Uniform Code...scanned by the computer on the first pass. Bar codes have to meet specifications, or grades...