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Verification: The Foundation Of Every Successful Bar Code Program
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By now, everyone has heard horror stories about trading partners sending back thousands, or even millions, of dollars worth of product because of a certain number of unreadable bar code symbols. Worse yet are the stories of certain retailers who not only return the product, but fine their vendor at the same time.
It shouldn't have to take such extreme events to drive home the importance of verification for every company who prints, labels, or scans a bar code. A good part of our economy is driven by automatic data collection, and ensuring the accuracy, readability and compliance of each and every bar code symbol is critical. Simply put, all the productivity and cost savings we associate with automatic data collection programs can only be realized if we ensure the quality of the bar code symbols themselves. That is what bar code symbol verification is all about.
Bar code verification is more than simply scanning a bar code as it comes off the printer. Because you are only testing that one code with one model scanner in a fixed environment, scanning the bar code tells you very little about how that code will perform in the field. Verifying a bar code symbol tells you virtually everything about how that specific code, and those printed in the same lot, should perform in any environment, with a wide range of equipment. While scanning is simply machine recognition of encoded data, verification is an analysis of the encoding of that data.
