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Barcodes

Barcode labels on a roll made of either paper, plastic foil or even metal with fixed or consecutive barcodes. These machine readable codes are omnipresent in areas such as appliance monitoring, process control, time recording, stockkeeping and repair services.

All types of barcodes, including custom-made versions can be produced in an infinite amount of sizes and materials.

Printing with all sorts of colour combinations is possible. However, red is an exception, due to the fact that most scanners work with red light. A red barcode can only be read with a scanner that works with blue light.

Optimise your production with our advice and the right barcode label for the job.

Barcode labels

Examples of different types of barcode

Code 39

(sometimes known as Code 3 of 9)
Alphanumeric code with special characters
Self-checking

Advantages of Code 39

Can be read by almost all barcode scanners

Disadvantages of Code 39

Low information density
The gaps contain no information
Low tolerance

Code 128

ASCII-characters
Consecutve numbering
Self-checking
1 Check digit
3 Start characters
1 Stop character

Advantages of Code 128

High information density
Suitable for most types of printing technology

Disadvantages of Code 128

Four different bar and space widths
Complete set of ASCII characters cannot be represented with one character set

EAN 8

Numerical code
Consecutive numbering
Self-checking
1 Check digit
Fixed length, 8 digits
Split into two halves separated by a couple of long bars in the centre.

Advantages of EAN 8

High information density
For smaller sized productsl
Can be read even at an angle of 45° to the direction in which the article is moving
Suited to higher conveying speed

Disadvantages of EAN 8

Predefined, very small tolerance
Not for general use

EAN 13

Numerical code
Consecutive numbering
Self-checking
1 Check digit
Fixed length, 13 digits
Split into two halves of 6 digits separated by guard bars in the centre

Advantages of EAN 13

High information density
Can be read even at an angle of 45° to the direction in which the article is moving
Suited to higher conveying speed

Disadvantage of EAN 13

Predefined, very small tolerance

Code 2/5 Industry

(also known as Code 2 of 5)
Numerical code
Self-checking

Advantages of 2/5 Industry

No information in the spaces
High tolerance

Disadvantage of Code 2/5 Industry

Low information density

Barcode labels are also available in: Codabar, Code 128 B, Code 128 C, 2-D Barcodes, UPC, Code 93 ...