Introduction to Barcode
In today's business environment, staying competitive is critical to your success. Bar code data-collection technology is an effective way to improve the bottom line and meet the competitive challenges your organization faces every day.

Combined with data-collection technology, bar codes provide a rapid, accurate, and efficient means to collect, process, transmit, record, and manage data in a variety of industries. Retail, package delivery, warehousing and distribution, manufacturing, healthcare, and point-of-service applications can all benefit from the use of bar codes.

Bar code is a fundamentally simple technology. But like the chain - or the wheel - simplicity of concept relies heavily on excellence of total execution. Efficient data takes full responsibility to provide our customer, with every link in the chain.

With respect to directly printing characters on objects by means of laser or ink-jet, labels have the advantage of being printed before being used. In this case, the place where the code is printed and used can be different, and this enables a low-cost and high-quality mass production in printing works. Thanks to technological progress in opto-electronics, today data printed in a certain format can be automatically read and then downloaded to a computer by means of standardized interfaces. A bar code on a stationary object can be read by means of any hand-held reading device. With a fixed-position laser scanner or a CCD-scanner, codes can be read at a remote distance on both moving and stationary objects. Automatic identification and today's computer technology have given industry improved control systems for managing transportation and production processes, as well as warehouses. Moreover, automatic identification systems simplify data management with regard to the issuance of warehouse and transportation documents (delivery notes, invoices, packing notes, etc.)