| The bar code is a tool to efficiently and accurately | | | | the time and energy of your employees. With a bar |
| identify items and collect information. The patent for | | | | code system, you can quickly and accurately inventory |
| the bar code was issued to Joseph Woodland and | | | | your stock instead of spending hours counting and |
| Bernard Silver in 1952. This first bar code was not the | | | | recounting. Bar codes help to reduce time spent by |
| rectangle of thick and thin lines that we now know, but | | | | employees marking and changing price tags on |
| a bull's-eye-type symbol made of concentric circles. It | | | | products. |
| looked much like the rings on the inside of a tree. | | | | With barcode labels, you'll be able to increase |
| While the bull's eye bar code did help companies to | | | | productivity in your employees and save your |
| maintain their inventory and keep track of their | | | | company money. To have a barcode system you |
| products, it soon became evident that some sort of | | | | need to get your bar code system set up including bar |
| universal bar code system needed to be set up. The | | | | code labels, bar code ribbons, bar code rewinders, |
| Uniform Product Code, or U.P.C., was invented in 1973 | | | | barcode printers and bar code scanners. Blank |
| to allow retailers and manufacturers to coordinate their | | | | barcode labels and blank laser label sheets can use in |
| bar codes. | | | | conjunction with most bar code software. |
| The use of bar code labels is a simple way to save | | | | |