Bar Code Explained
I received this in e-mail Read on!
| This may be useful to know when grocery shopping, if it's a concern to you. Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China ? If the first 3 digits of the barcode are 690, 691 or 692, the product is MADE IN CHINA. 471 is Made in Taiwan . Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products "MADE IN CHINA ", so they don't show from which country it is made. However, you may now refer to the bar code, remember if the first 3 digits are: 690-692 … then it is MADE IN CHINA. 00 - 09 … USA & CANADA 30 - 37 … FRANCE 40 - 44 … GERMANY 47 ... Taiwan 49 … JAPAN 50 … UK By watching for "0" at the beginning of the number, you buy USAproducts. The e-mail was very deceptive Read ON Please! After reviewing my notes and getting considerable information I would like to revise my post accordingly. First of all, I have recognized the fact that the outright ease I and you hoped for is a fallacy. In fact, these codes do represent valid country codes found in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th position of codes made in line with certain standards, all preceded by zero. The standard that requires that is the prevalent, more universal code. However, be forewarned, that even this standard allows re-coding for importers who distribute overseas products. Because Americans have been warned of high mercury levels and lead from Chinese products and others, the process of Licensed coding is now authorized by Distributor in advance. This allows the country of origin to be hidden. So, I have decided for me if the label says, “Distributed by…Foods (And we are talking MAJOR Companies here), IF it’s Seafood, that could have Mercury, PASS. IF it’s painted with something that could be lead PASS. No name can be trusted unless it has “Made in the USA” There is no magic bullet for reading it. I have, with much help from a Gather friend, learned that, when shopping there are many variations. The following is posted for reference For anyone breaking into the field of import export, understand these codes first! I learned that much! Coupon Code Basics https://www.bar-code.com/ According to my source, this is the prevalent code, which most readers worldwide recognize. All of this is a licensing agreement FOR THE BARCODE SET, AND GENERIC NUMBERS OR STANDARD NUMBERS ARE AVAILABLE. So if you want cheap, investigate and shop around. What you will eventually need may vary by price and usefulness for your purpose! A good bar code printer is about $3,000 and the software is $279, but it’s cheaper to print it right on the product label, not separately. This avoids additional duplication of printing and labor. Packages can be pre-printed as well, ie…boxes that contain printing can get bar coding when first printed. But one size does not fit all as shown in the list below. There was available a Barcode creator extension on Open Office.org and it is free. It will create barcodes for most types. A Little MORE INFO (Which probably isn’t all inclusive, but you get the idea!) MY Thanks to GD, whose original words are below, in case I misused them. THERE IS A SUMMARY POINT IN THE COMMENTS, BUT MUCH WAS LEFT OUT OF THE SUMMARY PLEASE READ ON TO ADD, QUESTION, OR REFUTE!
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13 bar code is the industry standard, the 10 bar code is a generic brand and doesn't have all the information.
designations??
Question 8: As a distributor, do I need to apply barcode numbers to the products that I import?
Answer: Regardless of where and by whom the product is manufactured, the brand owner is responsible for the allocation of the barcode number. However, if the importer or wholesaler is to sell the product under a different brand or modify the packaging in any way, then a new barcode number must be allocated to the product. This would then make the importer or wholesaler responsible for allocating a new barcode number to the product.
A Barcode is just a number. There is no extra information contained within the bars.The barcode has no meaning until it
the details of the product are entered into a software application. For example a retailer who uses MYOB Retail Manager
will enter your products Barcode number, description, cost price, sell price, etc into the MYOB product menu. When the
barcode is scanned at the check out counter, the Barcode number is looked up in the software. Once it is found, the sell
price is displayed on the cash register. A barcode is only a link between your product and the product information within
the software.
Most Made in China products are supplied the bar code from their importer, it can be a standard code or a generic code.
Now you can get a waveform code, and a dot code, all have different readings and most just work on the companies own readers.
I am buying 1000 barcodes this week, and I am using the global system so All my codes will be 0-93, but on products I send O/S I will use a different barcode which suits the system employed by the company importing.
My bar codes will have the first 5 numbers as my country and my company on them because I will pay app $300 a year for this information to be global. Then all the other numbers will be what I call the product.
The price I pay for registration goes up dependent on company turnover. Some Companies pay $2,500 Pa for the registration.
The generic ones you pay for each barcode, and there is no registration fee.
Or you can get a barcode printer and software and make your own and make the code o suit your own company or business. For instance Aerospace companies will have in House barcoding.
Yes it will. The barcodes issued by Australian Barcodes are unique worldwide. They work anywhere where either UPC or EAN bar codes are used. This includes Canada, Australia, the UK, Europe, Asia, Mexico, South America, the Middle East, and
anywhere else that they use bar codes. The only limitation that we have found is that two major retail chains in the US (Wal-Mart & Kroger's), and Woolworths Australia require you to be registered with a barcode organisation
UPC and EAN bar codes are the most common generic brands, then the GSi is the industry standard. Most barcode readers read all 3.
In the 1990’s, US Manufacturers were given " manufacturer ID" numbers. There were no strings attached to these assigned numbers. The manufacturer ID numbers were unique to these companies and belonged to these companies as part of their assets.
From the early 2000’s, GS1-US (formerly UCC) changed their requirements so that all the manufacturer ID numbers they issued became the property of GS1-US, and the user was required to start paying annual fees to retain those numbers.
Some US manufacturers brought lawsuits against UCC (GS1-US) with regard to these annual fees. They were successful and GS1-US (formerly UCC) was forced to pay a $3.89m USD settlement. This settlement also stated that any company which had paid a membership fee to UCC prior to August 28, 2002, was entitled to free perpetual membership of UCC and continued use of their company prefix.
Some of these companies have unused barcode numbers that they are prepared to sell to other companies. Australian Barcodes and other barcode sellers in China, India, Europe and Asia have purchased a block of these numbers to provide unique EAN-13 format. This is why you cannot guarantee that the country code or company code is exactly what it says it is.
If you want to save money on barcoding, you get the generic brands or the pirated ones.(can I call them that?)
I like to know the code I use is accepted every where.
The company they buy the bar code from may have 20,000 barcodes and they have 10,000 unused or codes which are from out of date products, or from downsizing, so rather than put that product code back in their system they sell the code and re-register it with GSI with a new name for the block of 20 with new business identifiers and then the purchasing company registers the product with GSI. Usually this is done by a broker like Australian Barcodes or your printer who prints your product labels.
Some bigger printing companies purchase 1,000's of bar codes to sell to small companies who only require 5 of 6 codes, like Organic shampoo companies, who will only have 4 to 6 products and don't want to pay $300 every year for registration.
What does the acronym stand for?
Coupon Code Basics
https://www.bar-code.com/couponcodes.html
Do these things to keep learning and growing, in spite of the supposed stagnant situation I'm in.
So GSi is an old trademark name for now UCC?
But when you get your product label printed you have the barcode also printed on the label and not as a separate label. saves time putting 2 labels on the product. also boxes get the code printed on them when the box is printed. Costs no more to have it all done together.
And those printers for separate labeling are indeed high maintainance. I had a couple brushes with one of ours, and the alignment is critical, with deep menu structures to align if S\W not written right.
It will create barcodes for most types.
Barcode started out as an EuroOffice Extension Creator example and evolved into a practically useful tool. It currently supports the following barcode types:
* UPC-A (the most common barcode in the US)
* UPC-E (the short form of UPC-A)
* EAN-13 (the most common barcode in Europe)
* EAN-8 (the short form of EAN-13)
* JAN (the barcode used in Japan, basically EAN-13 with the country code for Japan)
* ISBN-13 (the barcode used in books after 2007, basically EAN-13 with a superscript)
* ISBN-10 (the barcode used in books before 2007, basically EAN-13 with a different superscript)
* Standard and interleaved 2 of 5 (a simple barcode used in custom solutions, for example on film reels)
* Code 128 (high-density barcode that can encode data of arbitrary length, commonly used in shipping and packaging)
A supermarket will have over 300,000 barcoded products on the shelf, and not one on any fruit and vegie item unless it is packaged... So you never know where fruit and vegies come from and if they could have been washed on "dirty" water..