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bar code
A Dictionary of Business and Management
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bar code (universal product code; UPC) A code, consisting of an array of parallel rectangular bars and spaces, printed on a package for sale in a retail outlet. When an optical scanner (
bar-code reader) reads the bar code at the checkout till (see
electronic point of sale), the price and description of the goods are displayed on the till screen and the computer-controlled stock record is simultaneously reduced. This also enables the retailer to compile sales volume infomation.
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Bar Codes vs. RFID: A Battle Just Beginning: As bar codes and RFID square off in some arenas, clinical and I.T. leaders weigh the pros and cons of each.
Magazine article from: Health Data Management; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...scanners similar to bar code scanners. RFID tags...information than bar codes, and the tags do...devices. The bar codes vs. RFID debate...RFID because bar code systems have no comparable...firm. However, the bar code vs. RFID debate...will be more ...
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Bar codes: a relic of the 20th century; the technology already exists to replace bar codes with RFID tags. (The View from the Top Left Corner).(radio frequency identification)(Column)
Magazine article from: Computers in Libraries; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...processors. With bar codes, you see the bits in the physical code itself. It's not...alphabet: thick bars, thick spaces, thin bars, and thin spaces. A thick bar or space is three...reader which way the bar code has been scanned...Some types of bar codes ...
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Bar codes on medications aim to reduce errors.
Newspaper article from: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week; 1/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...hospital pharmacies, tiny bar codes just an eighth of an...matching each pill's bar code to a hospitalized patient...transmitter-plus-bar code system called SmartBand...plus hospitals use bar-code systems now, partly...supplies come with the codes affixed to ...
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Creating good bar codes. (Scanners Bar code quality).
Magazine article from: Frontline Solutions; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...should also maximize the bar code height as much as possible. Bar code height is important for...in redundancy of a linear bar code. The taller the bar code, the more area the bar...contrast possible between the bars and spaces of your bar ...
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Bar codes take off from factory floor. (the use of bar coding technology in manufacturing)
Magazine article from: Purchasing; 11/7/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...How it works. The bars and spaces of the bar code symbol are "read...scanners read the bar codes and enter the information...presence-absence" codes, where the presence...information. Most matrix codes must be read by charge...emitting diode aimed at the bar ...
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Bar codes weaves safety net for patients
Magazine article from: Drug Topics; 6/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...remedies, the lowly bar code is now being heralded...is whether those bar codes will ever make it to...Novation's pro-bar-code stance is "not negotiable...have to toe the bar-code line by applying machine-readable bar codes at the unit-of-use...
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Bar codes triple bulk mail throughput.
Magazine article from: Modern Materials Handling; 8/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...restarts the conveyor, and rekeys the code. A zip code keyed with the right number of digits...unintended destination. For the bar code test, several bulk mailers in the Greensboro area put bar codes on certain packages. At the two...
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Bar Codes Increasing as Productivity Tool.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Metal Center News; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...opportunities that today's bar codes are presenting for industrial...the end user. The bar code, once considered strictly...computer chips in bar codes, and as long-distance...scanners to read the bar code on each oven and record...Two-dimensional bar ...
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Bar Codes on Drugs Aim to Reduce Errors
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Dateline: WASHINGTON An bar coded identification...pharmacies, tiny bar codes just an eighth of an...each drug's unique bar code to identification on...transmitter-plus-bar code system called SmartBand...plus hospitals use bar-code systems now, partly...supplies ...
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BAR CODES GET A SPLASH OF COLOR.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 4/16/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...into the business of bar codes. But these aren...a new type of bar code that uses multiple...the new Microsoft bar code technology. He cited...whether to use the bar codes. The first organization...around the bar code. The new bar codes...
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Bar Codes and the Mail
Book article from: Computer Sciences
BAR CODES AND THE MAIL The United States Postal Service...and efficiently through the use of bar codes. As each piece of mail arrives at the...which translates and prints the ZIP Code as a bar code onto the lower right corner of the...
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bar code
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
bar code computer coding system...printed pattern of lines or bars to identify products...accounts, and the like. Bar codes are read by optically...of letters. Some 2D codes do not use bars at all, such as the...could supplant the bar code in most applications...
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Bar Code Scanner
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...associated with reading bar codes on oddly shaped...the scanner against the code, because the light source...to distinguish between bars and stripes right at...solve the problem of bar code positioning; that is, codes no longer needed to directly...scan window. Modern ...
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Bar code
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...items. These are bar codes, or more specifically...Universal Product Code (UPC) first...thin vertical bars that represent...not part of the bar code, is determined by the store. Bar codes are read by handheld...and the light bars are from one to...is printed as a ...
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bar code scanner
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
bar code scanner A device for scanning a bar code . It may take the form of a hand-held wand , a holographic scanner , a laser beam deflected by an oscillating mirror, a telescope with a sensor, or a slot containing a sensor. Newer designs use an array of LEDs or a CCD array.
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