Barcodes can be printed on cards and tags to uniquely identify items and data using a series of black bars and white spaces. Common 1D barcodes include Code39, Code128, and EAN13, while 2D QR codes can also be printed and scanned by smartphones. Barcodes are widely used for managing inventory, membership systems, and product pricing when scanned by optical barcode readers in retail stores, warehouses, and on mobile devices. They provide benefits such as improved management, time and cost savings, and easy automatic identification of data.

2. Barcode Printing
Barcode Concept
Types of Barcode
Barcode Application
Barcode Bring Benefits
Artwork Set up Notices
Barcode Card Designs
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3. Barcode Printing Concept
You will see the barcode in the world every day, you see them on shopping
malls, labels, tags, consumable goods and plastic cards. Barcode can be
describe as an "optical Morse code." Series of black bars and white spaces
of varying widths are printed on cards and tags to uniquely identify items
and datas.
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4. Types of Barcode
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Many of barcode symbologies Three types of 1-D barcode have
have been created, However, less been widely used, there are
than two dozen are widely used. Code39, Code128, and EAN13. In
Every symbologies have their addition, QR Code(2-D) is also
own pattern of bars and spaces been widely used and readed by
and their own rules for encoding desktop printers and
data. Generally, There are two smartphones.
basic types of bar codes:
linear(1-D) and two-dimensional
(2-D).
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5. Types of Barcode
• Code128(1-D)
• Code39(1-D)
• EAN13(1-D)
• QR Code(2-D)
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6. Barcode Application
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Barcodes can be Barcode Printing is Printing QR code on
scanned by special widely used on Plastic card, which
optical scanners called plastic card to store customer
barcode readers, manage member information or
scanners and systems, also, can company information,
interpretive software be a much more just use smartphone
are available on devices effective and easy as a QR code reader
including desktop method of tracking to scan.
printers and inventory and
smartphones. pricing products.
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7. Barcode Application
QR Code are
readed by
mobile phone
QR Codes can be printed on plastic cards, encoded with contact cards, or included
in advertising, to deliver a website address to an interested parties mobile phone.
Plus, QR Codes can be delivered digitally, through the internet or television. QR
Code reading software is available for various modern mobile phones which
feature cameras, and comes pre-installed on many newer models.
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8. Barcode Bring Benefits
• Improve management
Retailers and distributors have used barcode labeling to
improve the management of their inventories. Such a relatively
simple, cost-effective system can provide the latest information
on your inventory status.
• Manage membership system
Barcode printing is definitely an easier way to manage your
membership system. which offer automatic identification,
extremely fast recognition and implementation of data.
• Save time and costs
Barcoding improves the accuracy of data while saving both time
and costs.
• Easy to read
QR codes huge capacity to store more data makes them more
sought after, QR codes can be read anytime, anywhere with
mobile phones. To simplify access and without having to type
anything, QR codes become multiple uses.
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9. Artwork Set up Notices
To print bar codes on plastic cards, the application software must support
barcoding or additional programming.
Code39 and Code128 can be encoded long symbologies which including
spaces.
The more symbologies, the longer length be required.
Spaces on barcode should be in accordance with those of symbologies
printed on barcode.
EAN13 have totally 13 digits. the last digit will generate automatically.
Code 128 is capable of displaying 2 digits with one set of bars
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10. Barcode Card Designs
Gift Card Membership Direct Mail
Card Envelope
Combo Card Long Hanging
Card
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11. Barcode Card Designs
Economy Short Hanging Key Tag
Hanging Card Card
Gift Card Garment Hang
Holder Tag
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