Researchers in Spain have implemented an innovative system to register archaeological artifacts that eliminates problems in manual markings, such as errors in writing or erosion of data. The system, ...

Since the government began requiring its suppliers to mark parts and assemblies with two-dimensional Data Matrix codes, the use of these codes has exploded even for products not destined for ...

The research team at the Centre for the Studies of Archaeological and Prehistoric Heritage (CEPAP) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have implemented an innovative system to register ...

Conventonal bar codes such as Universal Product Codes (UPCs) have gained wide acceptance in applications ranging from checkout and inventory control in retail sales to tracking PCB serial numbers in ...

When creating any standard, certain “rules” apply. A standard must incorporate some features critical to every company that adopts it, but inevitably, every company will identify critical features ...

Data-matrix codes in industrial environments are quite common. Their small size, large data capacity, and readability when large segments of the symbol have been lost or destroyed provide secure and ...

Flaunting one of the highest code-module resolutions available in its class, the ID version of the company’s popular Sharpshooter vision sensors reads a wide range of linear bar codes and 2D Data ...

Bar codes everywhere and on practically everything. The bar code has been around for years and is a familiar sight to everyone. Nowadays we scan bar codes ourselves with the scanners at the ...

Who would have thought that the lowly barcode, the stodgy grandfather of the identification technology world, would reemerge as a marketer’s dream? Well, it is happening. A new generation of barcodes ...

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Bristol-Myers Squibb has tapped auto-ID solutions provider Zetes for data matrix coding at a production facility in Agen, France. BMS now has 25 coding machines integrated into existing packaging ...

VCM200 V4.1 Data Matrix Code Reader software deciphers rectangular and square ECC 200 data-matrix codes with module sizes from 6 X 6 up to 144 X 144. An autodetection mode determines a size, number of ...