This clever invention has made the whole experience of shopping in the supermarket, paper shop, convenience store, accessory shop, a whole lot better than it was a few years ago, thanks to the barcode. You grab the items that you want and hey presto you are through the checkout in no time, no longer looking up prices and punching them into a cash register, not at all, a simple swipe across the barcode reader and the information is loaded electronically into the till.
However, the barcode does more than just put the price information into the cash register, which part of it only amounts to around 30% of its use. Barcodes work by making up a series of adjacent parallel black and white bars; the widths between these bars create a pattern. This is called a symbologies and it is made up from the pattern and spaces that represent characters of the alphabet or numbers which is a machine readable format. Barcodes can be used for a variety of purposes some of which are: Point of Sale, Inventory Control, Credit Card Processing, Accounts, Time and Attendance, are just some of these applications. Stock control is another important area. Is the barcode working for your business, if not we will be pleased to advise the code that will work for the application you have in mind.