What all can Barcode Software do?

Published by: dipti, in Various software

March27th2012

The answer to the question what all can barcode software do would be quite interesting to know, especially if you're into IT business. Barcodes are special symbols printed on several products that have a specific data about the product. Barcodes are mainly used to ease with the tracking all the product inventory so that the company saves a lot of labor, money and most importantly time.

 

 

Several computer software manufacturing companies create barcodes as per requirement using the software programs. Most major organizations use this barcode software for most of their transactions on a regular basis. This software is used in everything these days right from buying books or any product to even donating blood in the blood bank. Every process now involves barcode scanning, printing and several other technologies in some way or the other.

How Barcode Software Works?

Barcode software is a blessing for many major organizations across the world as it has helped in increasing their efficiency towards customer service. This system has not only helped them towards serving their customers at a fast pace but have also increased the speed and efficiency within the organization.

Many companies feed important relevant to the product to the program that generates the barcode. After feeding the relevant information in the program, a barcode image is produced by that program that contains all the data in a code format. The company then uses regular or barcode printers to print the barcode and also uses a barcode scanner which scans and read the printed barcode.

If you want to use barcode software in your business then first you would need to know about the types of barcodes you'd be using. This must be done before you study  about the software requirements. There are lots of varieties of barcodes in use and most organizations use recognized ones such as the UPC code. Most retailers in the US and Canada use this code for recognizing their products. ISBN (international standard for books) is the other code which is preferred in these countries. Thus before you find what all can barcode software do and move on, it's better to check what all barcode standards your industry or sector prefers.

Use of Barcode Software

There are several types of barcode softwares in use and Accu2000 is the one preferred in most companies. This is due to the features it has.

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• This barcode software supports more than twenty six of the most commonly used 2D and 1D barcode symbologies. Besides barcode, this software can also print labels with text, numbers, lines and images.
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• Accu2000 also has the ability to export label designs to majority of the image formats which include .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .ico, .png etc, for making packaging look easier along with label designing.
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• Several database platforms such as oracle, SQL, excel, access, CSV etc can easily use this barcode software.
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• This software is also compatible with most printers in the market. Printers such as laser, thermal and ink jet easily accepts this software in their system.
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• It also has predefined label templates for majority of label manufacturers
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Which Barcode Software is Useful?

The type of barcode software you need would need to be determined by the database system and the type of scanning you're using. Wedge was the original standard device used to transfer barcode data to the computer. A piece of hardware, the wedge comes with a scanner and keyboard attached to it. When you scan a barcode through it, the data gets transferred to the computer from the scanner. You can use these hardware wedges as they are inexpensive and still used widely.

You must have known by now what all can barcode software do and how it has improved the productivity in many industries.

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