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Barcode Information | Tutorials | Examples

Printing Barcodes with HandiFox

HandiFox Inventory is a powerful inventory management software that allows users to accomplish a wide variety of inventory-related tasks including purchase orders, inventory counts, inventory tracking, assigning barcode data to items, and much more. Assigning barcodes in HandiFox is quite easy, and their user manual provides some very clear instructions on how the system can…
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Optional Integration Makes Sense, and Here’s Why

After the great economic downturn of 2008, it’s no secret that businesses across the nation have significantly tightened their belts. In the slow recovery that the economy has experienced following, businesses have kept a watchful eye on spending habits. In fact, many businesses have found that by cutting spending, they are able to keep more…
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2D Barcode Integration Tips for Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a powerful application that allows graphic designers, production artists, and others to create print media such as magazines, posters, brochures, and more in addition to publications intended for digital consumption. Given the business-centric nature of these uses, the integration of 2D barcodes for InDesign is likely to become a necessity for many…
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Generating USPS Intelligent Mail Tracing Barcode Labels

The United States Postal Service recently made the transition from its legacy Confirm Service to IMb Tracing which allows mailers to access outgoing and incoming reply mailpieces data such as date, time, location, and sort operation at Postal Service facilities while the mail is en route to its destination. This program allows mailers in a…
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How to Make Barcode Labels

Barcode label printing is a small but critical aspect of virtually any business in operation today. Many companies make barcode labels to affix to their products or documents for more efficient inventory tracking or asset management systems while others affix barcoded labels to employee IDs or membership cards. Even in the most basic of businesses,…
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3 Easy-To-Use Barcode Generators

There are a lot of different ways in which barcodes can be generated. From barcode fonts that require special encoders to components that allow more powerful barcode generation within specific environments, to full-powered, stand-alone applications. It can be overwhelming to determine which method of barcode generation will best suit your needs, but there are a…
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Getting Started With UPC Barcodes

Providing products for sale in retail locations locally or globally requires that those products be registered under a Universal Product Code, or UPC for short. For the purpose of Retail Point-of-Sale systems and a speedier, more efficient checkout process, this UPC code can be represented as a barcode on your product which is then scanned…
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Linking to External Sources with Barcode Label Software

Printing barcodes onto labels has become commonplace in many businesses around the world as companies work to improve their efficiency and inventory tracking capabilities with barcode technology. While the prospect of printing barcodes onto labels is nothing new, many have had difficulties due to the fact that the data to be encoded into barcodes lives…
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