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EAN Barcodes

How does a bar code work?

When you sell your products to a wholesaler or retailer (Amazon, Target, Borders Books, Autozone, etc.), they will have you supply them or will have you fill out a product information sheet. The things that […]

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EAN Barcodes

EAN Barcodes

The EAN-13 barcodes are used worldwide excluding US and Canada for marking products often sold at retail point of sale. The numbers encoded in EAN-13 bar codes are product identification numbers, which are also called Japanese Article Number in Japan. […]

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UPC Database

UPC Databases

There are several databases available and none of them are complete. There are new products created every day and them come from giant manufacturers and from home-based entrepreneurs. Here is a partial list of databases […]

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Barcode Tutorial

Anatomy of a Barcode

The UPC symbol has two parts: The machine-readable bar code and The human-readable 12-digit UPC number The manufacturer identification number is the first six digits of the UPC number — 753182 in the image above. […]

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EAN Barcodes

Introduction to Barcodes

There are two types of barcodes for retail products, UPC – Universal Product Code and EAN  — European Article Number. We are going to focus on the 12-digit UPC-A barcodes since they are the most common […]