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    Bar Codes: By: Frank John Paul L. Tresvalles

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    Barcodes were first invented in 1948 and were used starting in the 1960s to track railcars. In the early 1970s, barcodes began appearing on grocery store items to identify products. A barcode represents data as a series of black and white bars of varying widths that correspond to binary 1s and 0s. There are different types of barcodes including discrete, continuous, and two-dimensional codes. Common 1D barcodes include Code 39 and the Universal Product Code (UPC).

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    Barcodes were first invented in 1948 and were used starting in the 1960s to track railcars. In the early 1970s, barcodes began appearing on grocery store items to identify products. A barcode represents data as a series of black and white bars of varying widths that correspond to binary 1s and 0s. There are different types of barcodes including discrete, continuous, and two-dimensional codes. Common 1D barcodes include Code 39 and the Universal Product Code (UPC).

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    Barcodes were first invented in 1948 and were used starting in the 1960s to track railcars. In the early 1970s, barcodes began appearing on grocery store items to identify products. A barcode represents data as a series of black and white bars of varying widths that correspond to binary 1s and 0s. There are different types of barcodes including discrete, continuous, and two-dimensional codes. Common 1D barcodes include Code 39 and the Universal Product Code (UPC).

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    Bar Codes: By: Frank John Paul L. Tresvalles

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    Barcodes were first invented in 1948 and were used starting in the 1960s to track railcars. In the early 1970s, barcodes began appearing on grocery store items to identify products. A barcode represents data as a series of black and white bars of varying widths that correspond to binary 1s and 0s. There are different types of barcodes including discrete, continuous, and two-dimensional codes. Common 1D barcodes include Code 39 and the Universal Product Code (UPC).

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    Bar codes

    By: Frank John Paul L. Tresvalles


    Bar Code History
    •The first barcode, with a design like a bulls eye,
    was invented in 1948 by two Drexel University
    students named Norman J Woodland and Bernard
    Silver.
    •The pair received a patent in 1952.
    Bar Code History

    •As far back as the 1960s,


    barcodes were used to track a
    railcars.
    Bar Code History
    •In the early 1970s, common barcodes started appearing on
    grocery stores.
    Bar Code
    •A bar code is a series of vertical black bars separated by
    vertical white bars (called spaces).
    •The widths of the bars and spaces along with their
    reflective abilities represent binary 1s and 0s, and
    combinations of bits identify specific items.
    •Bar codes may contain information regarding cost,
    inventory management and control, security access,
    shipping and receiving, production counting, document and
    order processing, automatic billing, and many other
    applications.
    Bar Code
    •. Bar codes are generally classified as being discrete, continuous, or
    two-dimensional (2D)
    •Discrete code - A discrete bar code has spaces or gaps between
    characters. Code 39 is an example of a discrete bar code.

    •Continuous code - A continuous bar code does not include spaces


    between characters. An example of a continuous bar code is the
    Universal Product Code (UPC)
    Bar Code
    •2D code - A 2D bar code stores data in two dimensions in
    contrast with a conventional linear bar code, which stores
    data along only one axis. 2D bar codes have a larger storage
    capacity than one-dimensional bar codes. QR code is an
    example of 2D code.
    Code 39
    •One of the most popular bar codes in 1974 .
    •It consists of 36 unique codes representing the 10 digits and
    26 uppercase letters. There are seven additional codes used
    for special characters, and an exclusive start/stop character
    coded as an asterisk (*). Code 39 bar codes are ideally suited
    for making labels, such as name badges
    Code 39 Character Set
    Example
    Universal Product Code
    (UPC)
    •The grocery industry developed the Universal Product Code
    (UPC) sometime in the early 1970s to identify their products.
    •Barcodes are a sequence of black and white parallel lines of
    different widths.
    •Today UPC codes are found on every grocery item and others.
    Label Format
    UPC Character Set
    UPC Number System
    Characters
    Determine the UPC label structure for the
    digit 4.?
    The End

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