It happens so often that we take it for granted. Modern barcodes have been around for 41 years now. The first product purchased with a barcode was a 10 pack of Juicy Fruit gum, scanned on June 26 ...

Code Compatibility: The barcode scanner supports reading various 1D barcodes -UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, EAN-13, Code128, Code39, Code 39Full ASCII,Codabar, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5 ...

Barcodes work based on light reflected back to scanner optics: black does not reflect light, while the white (blank) spaces do reflect light. Because characters (alphabetic, numeric, special) are ...