Blog3: Sabarcodes.co.za
All about Barcode Labels The newer and newer technological developments are continuously making the world business environment more competitive and user friendly. The advent of barcode is one such thing that has made all tracking jobs simple. These are basically unique numbers and are issued by one world authority called GS1. GS1 is responsible for the distribution and regulation of the barcode numbers all throughout the world. This is required as you need to have a unique product barcode number for each and every product worldwide. The barcode numbers are 12 and 13 digits unique numbers issued in such way as can be transferred into images. The images are vertical bars having various sizes and spaces. These barcodes for products are then linked to the products and can be scanned by barcode scanner at retail stores. Now all the individual countries are having divisions of GS1 and they are able to provide various types of barcodes such as EAN, EAN8, UPC etc. One can buy online barcodes too from SA Barcodes which is one barcode reseller based in South Africa. Similarly other countries have their own barcode resellers. The UPC barcode numbers originated from USA and were 12 digit numbers. Gradually the world started using the barcode system when one extra digit had been added to it. With this it became possible to have billions of number combinations for use worldwide. Thus the barcode system has evolved as one well standardized one for use all over the world. The barcode bought from any GS1 reseller can be used in all the countries of the world.