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Axicon has been designing and developing barcode verifiers since the late 1980s, and has developed verifiers intended for general use in artwork departments, print rooms or on the shop floor. Axicon was the first company to use LEDs (used to illuminate the barcode) with CCD-based sensors to receive the image before it is analysed.

Obtain your barcode number from a GS1 member organisation. In Hong Kong, this is GS1 Hong Kong, located in Wan Chai. You can register at www.gs1hk.org.

If you need to be sure that your printed barcode will scan everywhere, how can you check it? Using a scanner to test the barcode will only tell you if it can be read by that particular scanner, but a barcode verifier will allow you to grade each barcode’s quality.

All barcode verifiers measure the same parameters of each barcode, and they must conform to the ISO/IEC standards for verifiers if the results from one manufacturer’s equipment are to be compared with those from a different manufacturer. This means that each verifier must measure the reflectance from each barcode consistently, and use accurate measurements.

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