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Universal Product Code
Last year on a camping trip Lisa Warden and her daughter Jessica stopped for groceries in an extremely small town. ... Consumers, retailers, and producers have benefited with the invention of the bar code by saving time and money. The bar code is a series of thirteen numbers written in a coded form of black and white lines that a scanner can read. The definition according to The Computer Desktop Encyclopedia is, The printed code used for recognition by a bar code reader (scanner). Traditional one-dimensional bar codes use the bar’s width as the code, but encode just an ID or account number. ... The Universal Product Code (UPC) is thirteen numbers divided into three sections: the first five digits are the manufacturer’s code, the next seven digits are the product’s code, and the last digit is a check digit (Hartston). The bar code currently being used is one-dimensional, but the appetite for including more and more detail in bar code messages seems to have no limit. ... Explained in Using Bar Code--Why it’s Taking Over, A symbology called Code 49, the first stacked bar code to receive widespread interest, was introduced by Intermec Corporation in 1987. ... introduced Code 16K as an entry in the symbology category. ... The stacked symbology of Code 16K is designed to contain from 2 to 16 rows of bars. Each row has a row designator (in UPC symbology) on each end of the row, and five message characters between them in Code 128 format. This gives Code 16K a message capacity of 77 full ASCII characters, or 154 numeric characters, within a very small label (Collins 38). Two-dimensional bar codes are not yet in the mainstream of bar code technology. ... “Bar code scanning is probably the single most revolutionary thing that has happened in retail sales in 50 years,” says George Goldberg, founder and former publisher of SCAN, an industry newsletter (qtd. ... He first thought of a code, and the only code he knew was Morse. ... He looked at the different size lines each finger made, and the bar code image hit him. ... Without the concept of a bar code, the busy world of retail would be a slower place. ... This is how the bar code and scanner work according to Chuck Haga, The heart of the scanner is a laser about the size of a pencil eraser. ... As the laser beam hits the bar code, it sees white spaces and black bars. ... It comes up with a series of numbers, a sort of product license plate, which shoots into the store’s database to find the price. ... In the beginning consumers were leery of the accuracy of the bar code; Carol Tucker Foreman, therefore, started an anti-bar-code crusade. ... In the retail business, the bar code has shortened the check out lines, making the consumer’s shopping trip a happier adventure. ... The customer’s most bought items will always be on the shelves because of the efficiency of the bar code updating the daily inventory. ... Used in all types of businesses the bar code is a very helpful tool. ... To satisfy their customers needs, United Parcel Service decided in 1989 to start using a bar code on their next day and second day air labels.
Approximate Word count = 2639
Approximate Pages = 10.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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