Your IPhone and How it Can Read a Barcode

On Feburary 3rd, 2009 Occipital, a Boulder Colorado Based Mobile Technology Empire, launched a new iPhone application called ClearCam. ClearCam became one of the largest online applications to hit iphone users. With ClearCam in full force on the market, Occipital engineers continued to work diligently with their innovative ideas and developed the bargain shoppers dream. They call it the RedLaser.

The Redlaser is a unbelievable iPhone application which allows you to scan upc barcodes. Yes, it's true, you're iPhone can read barcodes. You can scan almost any upc barcode in any store. The Redlaser gives you all the proper information associated with the particular barcode you scan. You can check online prices for different CD's. You can scan movies at your local video store and beam them to your TiVo. You can scan a novel and check it's reviews. You can also scan your favorite Orange Juice and add it to your grocery list. This is pure UPC Barcode Technology at its best. We've come a long way since the invention of the upc code.

The Redlaser application also is networked up with Google Product Search. Once the Redlaser Application scans a particular barcode you can simply click on google product search and voila more information for your liking.

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The 35th Anniversary of the Bar Code

Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of the Universal Product Code (UPC).
To celebrate the milestone, GS1 (Formerly the Uniform Code Council or UCC) the administrator of the bar code is holding and annual U Connect Conference in Orlando, Florida.

The worldwide UPC symbol, now appears on over 200,000 businesses in the United States alone. It's black and white stripped machine readable bars have conveyed and identified specific product information for over three decades in counting.

In the beginning, the initial objectives for the UPC were plain and simple. There was a strong need to speed up the grocery checkout line and effortlessly track stock. A time of technologic boom was in effect. And what better company to take initiative with developing a pattern then Internation Business Machines Corportation (IBM). IBM put their top engineer Mr. George J. Laurer to the task and in 1973, the birth of the Universal Product Code (UPC) came to flourish.

In June of 1974, the first UPC Scanner was installed in Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio and a pack of Wrigleys Gum's bar code was scanned.


The process of the UPC has not varied much in it's 35 years of history. We still use the same standards as we did back during it's birth. The Universal Product Code can still be purchased through GS1 US (formerally the Uniform Code Council) or you can buy a barcode through other resellers like Quality UPC.

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The amount of money and energy thrown into inventing a new product can be extremely frustrating. First you go and get a patent, then you build an expensive prototype, next thing you know you're at a convention trying to persuade retailers to put your product on their shelf. When your bank accounts at its all-time low, they're asking you if your product has a Universal Product Code attached to it.
Well if you're not educated on where to get those ubiquitous black & white stripped identification labels, there's a lesson to be learned.

A Universal Product Code is a unique 12-digit barcode which allows retailers to manage sales and inventory of a product. It's technology which allows retailers to keep an easy track of your brand new invention. For every item you want to sell in those stores with scannable checkout systems you'll need to buy one barcode per item and for each variation. This includes color, size, and style.

Where does one purchase a barcode, you ask? Years ago, every company out there had to go through the source: U.C.C. (Uniform Code Council). These peeps provided you with a prefix (basically half of the 12 digit full code). Then your company had to dish out more pocket change and buy software which created the remaining digits. Ah, then it still doesn't end. After you've purchased the software you've still got to print those barcodes out. A printer for at least a couple hundred must be bought and not just any ol' printer, a label printer.
To continue on about the U.C.C. (because I tend to sidetrack myself)
Back before the millennium you could join the U.C.C. for a flat fee around $1000. The sad news is U.C.C. got bought out by GS1 US and those cheap one-time fees are long gone. Joining GS1 US these days is a chunk of change out of your pocket and it comes with a yearly renewal.
Truth of the matter is, companies who bought their prefix from the U.C.C. before 2001 and never ended up using those valued barcodes, are now reselling them to consumers like us for cheap. Yes, you heard me- cheap.

After a bit of research on the worldwide web I've found a simple, easy, navigation happy reseller. These guys most definitely have got it together. You can buy a UPC Barcode for only $29.99! $1000 buckaroos from GS1 US-No thank you! With the economy at it's all-time low I think cheaper is better in my book. My small tea business came to flourish after I purchased from Quality UPC. I'm now in 11 different retail stores instead of a measly 3.
It's truly helped the quality of my business and I only had to make a one-time purchase of a few hundred dollars instead of a few thousand throughout the years.

Now that Amazon has implemented all companies selling on their site must have barcoded products, I think my UPC code lesson should be helpful.

Remember UPC-A is the specific name of the barcode you'll be needing for any general use product. Quality UPC sells UPC-A codes and their customer service is so helpful. If you're still confused give them a call and I'm sure you'll be satisfied with your barcode knowledge after the phone hangs up.



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