During inspections, clients frequently ask us to scan their
products’ barcodes to ensure that they are correct. When scanning these codes,
we are ensuring that barcodes on products and packaging from mass production do
match with the client’s barcode specifications and also ensuring that it can be
scanned by a barcode scanner.
How do we
do this inspection?
The barcode scanner is usually portable and linked to a
computer that displays the information scanned. The computer will then display
either the barcode alone or the barcode and some pieces of information encoded.
In any case, we will only check that it is well read and that it matches with
the barcode number from the product/packaging/carton.
Even after these checks, some importers occasionally still have
problems with their barcodes, usually regarding the lines (length, width and
spacing between them). Some problems can fly under the radar for a few reasons:
The factory
printing the barcodes is not professional enough for such technical printing (wrong
settings, wrong software, bad printing).
Some end clients
(supermarkets for example) are generally using higher technology and more
expensive scanners than those carried by inspectors or available at the
factory, which are much more sensitive to reading barcodes. While much more
advanced, these often do not pick up barcodes from older technology.
Differences in
line spacing are not able to be checked by eye because they are not visible to
the naked eye.
In order to ensure that your factory will create a compliant barcode,
we suggest that you:
Make sure the
factory responsible for printing the barcodes (your factory usually outsources
it to another factory) is professional enough for this task.
Clearly specify
with your factory which kind of barcode you desire (type, numbers). No details,
even this small, can be taken for granted.
Because of the
compatibility between barcode scanners, the only 100% safe solution is to send
a mass production sample to your final client to make sure their scanners can
read the barcodes you are about to import.
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