Printing and scanning change what you intended to print. This matters in variable data security printing, since there is information encoded there. My friend and colleague Marie Vans explores this issue in another NIP25 paper posted here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-318.html The approach...
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Canada, in agreement with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), have "endorsed the adoption of the GS1 global standard for automated identification (e.g. bar coding) of pharmaceutical products in Canada". According to the ISMP Canada...
Barcodes, a key element in security printing, are nearly ubiquitous, serving not just for point of sale and inventory management, but increasingly for customer/product interaction. As described in previous blogs, this is due in part to the tremendous recent growth in mobile camera availability. Barcodes...
Thanks to my friend, John Keogh of GS/1 Canada, for this link to the "Barcode of Life Data Systems": http://www.barcodinglife.org/views/login.php The Barcode of Life Data Systems (using the acronym BOLD instead of BLDS...) product, like John also a resident of Ontario, is an "online workbench...