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Article: 'If it scans it's OK' .... not true in the matter of the quality of bar codes.
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- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1989
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1989 Food Trade Press Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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'If It Scans It's OK'....Not True in the Matter of the Quality of Bar Codes
Bar code scanning equipment manufacturers are under pressure to improve their products so that every bar code will read every time.
As a result, they have been developing devices that can read symbols below the exacting standards set for the dimensions of printed bar code symbols. This is good for everyone as long as no one assumes that a good bar code is simply a bar code that can be scanned
For example, the salesperson from, shall we say, the Whizzo Scanning Co, goes round to the supermarkets and demonstrates that his new Whizzo Mark 91 will read a bar code that looks like ...