Barcode Education

Until recently, businesses have relied on linear bar code symbols to achieve productivity. Productivity is important to every business, and interest in 2D (two dimensional) barcoding is growing rapidly due to its benefits over linear bar code symbologies. However, deployment is still lagging largely due in part to the high cost of marketing for this innovative technology as well as the margins manufacturers require to recoup R&D cost. From the consumer standpoint, added project development costs are usually associated in leveraging the increased information from the 2D symbol. In general, every software or database application receiving 2D scanned input must be modified in order to accommodate the thousands of bytes of data from the scanned 2D symbol. Up to now, implementation has been generally very expensive in small to medium size businesses that may not have the time or ability to afford software programmers to make these modifications even if the benefits of 2D bar coding are clear.