Barcode Teacher: Barcoding for Beginners

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as you're viewing this tutorial take a
look around and I'm sure you'll notice
wherever you're at you'll find the
printed barcode on something it may be
on a book on a food or beverage
item on a mailpiece or even on a
document this is how commonplace barcode
technology has become the industrial use
of bar codes can be traced back as far
as the nineteen sixties in some cases as
a means to identify railroad cars in the
early nineteen seventies common linear
barcodes such as you pc were used to
automate the process of identifying
grocery items today
barcode to just about everywhere and are
used for identification and almost all
fields of business when barcode
technology is used in business processes
procedures are automated to increase
productivity and reduce human error bar
coding should be used whenever there is
a need to accurately identify or track
something a bar code type known as a
symbology is a protocol for arranging
bars and spaces that make up a
particular kind of bar code such as code
128 code 39 data matrix and QR code
there are two major types of barcodes
linear barcodes and two-dimensional
barcodes linear barcodes are more common
it may be a UPC barcode on a canned item
or a code 39 barcode on a name badge
some of the more common linear barcodes
types include code 128 UPC code 39 and
data bar two-dimensional barcodes r
square or rectangular shape barcodes and
can hold much more data than linear
barcodes some can hold up to 1,300
characters and require 2d barcode
scanner to scan them
with the same amount of data a 2d
barcode will produce a much smaller bar
code than a linear barcode some 2d
barcode symbologies include data matrix
QR code pdf417 Aztec and Maxie code 12
symbology or standard symbology has been
selected
then you must decide on the barca type
to use in order to decide the best barco
type to use you must consider the
application that will be used to create
a barcode flexibility of the barcode
product whether you want to use it in
multiple environments and compatibility
which can include operating system and
application compatibility
there are three major types of barcode
products
barcode fonts barcode components and
barcode applications fonts bar codes can
be created using barcode fonts similar
to Times New Roman or Arial
however unlike times new roman arial
barcode fonts require special formatting
so that when the barcode font is applied
it will be scannable this is true for
most barcode symbologies with the
exception of code 39 and a few others
formatting the data can involve adding
start and stop characters or a check
digit to format the data or by
manipulating data so that when it is in
there leave into a smaller barcode the
barcode font can understand it
components bar codes can be created
using components such as an activex
control about net forms control or Java
component these components work as a cog
in an application to create bar codes as
an image they may be linear or 2d
barcodes barcode components are best
used for developers with programming
experience that intend to develop
applications components do not require a
font tool to encode the data as the
encoding and the creation of the bar
code is done using one file that may be
in the form of a dll applications
bar codes can be created using
standalone applications they are the
most user-friendly of the three and they
allow you to quickly create many
barcodes an application like a component
does not require tool to format the data
to the bar code as the application will
generate an image of the bar code using
an application is series of steps can be
performed to generate a bar code