Barcodes

10/7/2009

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Today is the 57th anniversary of the patent of the barcode. Do some research to find out what barcodes are all about. Why do we use them? How are they designed? How are they incorporated into some packaging designs? Compose a paragraph (5-7) sentences with your findings. Then, check out this website: Japanese Barcodes
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Colin M
10/6/2009 11:29:01 pm

Barcosed are the codes that are generated to distinguish different objects from other ones. Every object of the same thing has the same barcode. They are designed when the scanner picks up the digital code that is imprinted in the barcode....i think. When you scan the item, the reader scans the code and tells the server what that item is.

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Burley
10/6/2009 11:32:01 pm

The barcode was invented by a Mr. Woodland and Mr. Silver. It actually wasn't all straight lines when first patented. They were circles! They were first used to label railroad cars, but weren't really popular to use until they were used in supermarket checkouts.It is obvious that barcodes are essential to day to day life and serves as a greater good to everyone.

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Colin p
10/6/2009 11:33:59 pm

the first form of a barcode was created in 1932 by some students at Harvard graduate school in the form of punchedcards. a mand named Norman Woodland was told by his friend Bernard silver of a task his boss told him to do and woodland was fascinated. with the ink it took to make the patterns and the ink instability it was very expensive to make the barcodes. barcodes are actually on a black background with white dashes instead of the other way around. Woodland recieved the National Medal of technology in 1992. in 1970 the widespread use of the barcode was finally used

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Tanya
10/6/2009 11:34:09 pm

Happy universarry bar code. Barcode are used to price items, and where and when transaction took place. The desing in the computer. Labeling of the bar code is any written, electronic, or graphic communications on the packaging or on a separate but associated labe.
Packaging can play an important role in reducing the security risks of shipment. Packages can be made with improved tamper resistance to deter tampering and also can have tamper-evident features to help indicate tampering. The barcode is used for many things selling clothes, food and other goods.

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rose
10/6/2009 11:35:57 pm

I found out that bar codes have slowly become an essential part of modern civilization. Their use is widespread, and the technology behind barcodes is constantly improving.We use barcode for almost every item purchased from a grocery store, department store, and mass merchandiser has a UPC barcode on it. They are normally design by lines and the spacings of parallel lines.
They also come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images. Although the systems use symbols other than bars, they are generally referred to as barcodes as well. Bar codes are Universal Product Codes, and RFID labels are common to allow automated information management.

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Rudy
10/6/2009 11:36:45 pm

A barcode is the method of automatic identification and data collection. it was invented by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a "bull's eye" symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles. it was first thought of to be invented for a market inorder to find an easier way to find out about a product. Bar code was first used commercially in 1966. The barcode has become a necessity in our lives and most of the time we dont even notice it is there. Barcodes makes teh process of buying, selling and returning much much easier and faster. a barcode looks like a rectangle of white and black lines .. the code in it after being scanned reveals information on a particular product.

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Molly
10/6/2009 11:36:50 pm

A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data. They are desgined to come in patterns of squares, dots, hexagons and other geometric patterns within images. These images are termed 2D matrix codes or symbologies. Packaging barcodes are those usually used on the shipping cartons that contain many items. The shipping barcodes are used for to give information about the contents.



i worte this 2 times by the way due to the fact that i did not hit SUBMIT!!!!!!




dont make the same mistake (:

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Kay
10/6/2009 11:37:01 pm

Okay, barcodes:
They were first used to label railroad cars. Now we use barcodes to automate supermarket checkout systems. They are also used in the automotive industry. You have to apply to the UCC to enter the system and pay a fee. They then give you a six-digit identification number and instructions on how to use it. There are two parts: the machine readable numbers and the human readable numbers.

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CAM
10/6/2009 11:37:42 pm

Barcode are very important. We use barcodes to purchase everything. Everything we buy has a barcode on it. They are designed by ccreating widths between parallel lines and are read by a bar code reader. Bar codes can be placed on items to trace them such as luggage and nuclear waste. They are also used for tickets to allow people into sporting events.

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Isabelle
10/6/2009 11:41:13 pm

Here's what I found:
The first use of barcodes was to label railroad cars, but they were not commercially successful until they were used to automate supermarket checkout systems, a task in which they have become almost universal~ Wikipedia

There are different types of barcodes known as barcode symbologies. Different symbologies are used by different vertical markets. An example is the UPC (Universal Product Code) barcode scanned at the cash register. Some symbologies are fixed length, others variable length; some are numeric-only and others are alphanumeric (letters and numbers).~Barcode FAQ

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