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New, Innovative and Efficient Barcode Generating Software

Not just ‘good looks’, but also, software that helps you cut costs and achieves customer satisfaction, which is why we have more and more customers recommending Great Barcode Generator. If you are in need of software that is built with the user in mind, then look no further than Great Barcode Generator. The amount of Research and Development that has gone into the design and production of this innovative software stands as a testament of why the future is bright for not only the users of this barcode creation and printing tool, but also for the industries that cannot function without the now indispensable barcodes, such as the retail, manufacturing and package delivery industries.

Add to this, the simplicity and user friendliness

Added on to the innovation and efficiency that is the hallmark of Great Barcode Generator, is the ease of use that is characterized by a step-by-step wizard to guide any user from start to finish through the process of creating, storing, exporting and printing barcode labels. Choose from more than 26 of the industry standard barcode fonts, such as UPC, EAN, Code 39, Code 128 among many others, and get on your way to not just creating the ordinary or regular barcode, but also, a customized or modified barcode tag that has on it more information about the product on which it is attached. Such extra information is made available through the ‘Text Above’ and ‘Text Below’ printing facility, meant to assist shop attendants, especially at the retail checkout, to identify an item.

So, it does not matter whether your intention is to print a single barcode with a single barcode value or you are printing barcodes for a whole range of products that require a sequential list of barcode labels, Great Barcode Generator offers the ultimate solution for this undertaking. More than this, you have the option of adding basic modifications, such as dimensions of the labels, to changing the advanced settings of your barcode design, all the time being able to preview your work before eventual storage, copying, export or printing.

A choice of resolutions for your finished work and the image format to store or export your barcode design in enhances the professional appeal that is only available from barcodes designed and printed with Great Barcode Generator. This capability goes on to facilitate the transfer of your work to other software applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Paint and many others, which thus gives you an endless choice of design possibilities from Great Barcode Generator.

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This great software is yours for you to test drive today absolutely free! Just download Great Barcode Generator from the internet for a chance to take advantage of all the functionalities of this software and start getting a feel of what you can do with Great Barcode Generator by way of the demo version before moving on to the full version by purchasing a license for personal or commercial use.

Uses of Barcode

Preamble

It would be difficult to jump into the various uses and applications that barcodes have come to be associated with without taking a glimpse into the origins of this great technology. I doubt whether the inventors of this crucial product marking and identification tool knew how vital and intricately intertwined with the lives of ordinary people and businesses it would become. The birth of Barcode technology can be traced back to the immense commitment to success shown by Bernard Silver and his friend Norman Joseph Woodland. The desire for an efficient grocery store checkout system by the NAFC (National Association of Food Chains) of the USA, and the subsequent investment spent on the same by companies such as RCA, IBM and Computer Identics, to mention but a few, gave barcode technology the foundation it badly needed right from the very start.

Barcode types and their uses

Since the 1970s, when barcodes were first put to productive commercial use, a number of barcode standards have been developed to cope with different industry requirements as well as the formation of Standardization and Regulation bodies that oversee the use of this international product and its related services. These Barcoding Standards include:

• UPC – Universal Product Code – This was the first barcode to be used after Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland applied and received a patent for their invention. This is the most favored barcoding symbology for the retail industry. Initially adopted for the checkout system of grocery stores in the US, UPC barcodes found their way into numerous applications found in a wide range of industries. Now, it is difficult to imagine items stocked in a supermarket that doesn’t use the barcodes.

• EAN – The European Article Number – started being used in Europe after the Europeans adopted the use of the UPC barcoding standard. The EAN system is, therefore, similar in most respects to the UPC Symbology. With growth and development in the use of these barcodes, EAN inevitable underwent modifications to enable it acquire a much wider global appeal, as is evident in the change from EAN-10 to EAN-13. Now, with a country-specific identification number appended to barcodes, it is easy to decode the origin of products that have been tagged with internationally recognized barcoding symbology. Barcodes also incorporate a manufacturer’s identification number that gives further information on the company that made a product.

• Other composite barcode symbologies, such as, EAN-2 and EAN-5, as well as UPC-E, are abbreviated or compact versions of their full version and were developed to serve as product identification numbers for small items. Medicines, cigarettes, confectionary items may need to have a very small barcode label printed for them to accommodate the entire tag on the product, but this may lead to difficulties in barcode scanners deciphering the encoded data, thus, the use of this supplementary coding system.

• There are certain other industry specific barcoding standards that have been developed to meet specific needs. Such include PLANET – The Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique – developed for the US Postal services, is able to encode mail delivery data to facilitate the delivery of parcels and mail around the country.

Another similar system is the POSTNET system – Postal Numeric Encoding Techniques – this one is used in the encoding o Postal ZIP codes in the US of A by taking advantage of machine readable bars that vary in height as well as width and has the advantage of increasing the efficiency of mail and parcel sorting and delivery with phenomenal accuracy.

Growth Industry

There is no telling what the limits of this technology are or will ever be. The latest addition to the Barcode family being the 2 D (2Dimensional), also known as QR (Quick Response) code. Even though not discernible by the human eye, this has raised the bar in barcode symbology by the amount of data and functionality borne into this new type of barcode symbology.