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EAN Barcodes

UPC and EAN Country Codes

Barcode prefixes do not provide identification of origin for a specific product. They merely provide number capacity to different countries for assignment of barcode prefixes by the GS1. […]

Miscellaneous

Barcodes – Where Products Come From

This viral email has been going around for a couple of years and is mainly untrue. The email says you can tell where a product has been manufactured by the UPC or EAN barcode. This […]

EAN Barcodes

How do You Register a Barcode?

What Happens After You Buy a UPC or EAN Barcode? A Simple, Accurate Guide After you purchase a UPC or EAN barcode, the next steps are often much simpler than people expect. One of the […]

EAN Barcodes

Will my barcode work at every store?

The majority of retailers throughout the world will accept UPC or EAN Barcodes from Nationwide Barcode. The exceptions are some of the major retailers like Jc Penney’s, Krogers and Walmart. These retailers require that you […]

Barcode Tutorial

GTIN-14 Shipping Container Barcodes

If you need to determine what the checkdigit is for your GTIN-Shipping Container Barcodes based on your UPC barcode, here is an easy way to do this. A Shipping Container Barcode is configured as follows: […]

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EAN Barcodes

Our philosophy

Message from Nationwide Barcode. We appreciate our clients and hope that you will consider us for all of your EAN and UPC barcode needs. We want to make the purchase and ownership of UPC Barcodes […]

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UPC Barcodes

UPC Barcode celebrates 40th Birthday

George Joseph Laurer developed the Universal Product Code in 1973.  As an engineer at IBM he was asked to develop the pattern used for the Universal Product Code. A 36-year veteran of the International Business […]

Barcode Tutorial

Labeling Packaging and Containers

According to the FDA, there are two ways to label packages and containers for food and drug items. The first way is to place all required label statements on the front label panel. The front […]

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Barcode Tutorial

Leading Digits – UPC-A Barcodes

The first digit of a UPC-A Barcode is number system character. The following table shows you what different number system characters mean 0:      Standard UPC number 1:      Reserved 2:      Random weight items […]

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Barcode Tutorial

Are UPC-A and EAN-13 the same?

Before you buy a barcode, we have written this tutorial to help you understand the differences between UPC Barcodes and EAN Barcodes. Below are both an EAN barcode and a UPC Barcode. The EAN contains […]

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Barcode Tutorial

All about Barcodes

Wherever you go, the grocery store, department store, on line at Amazon or your own refrigerator or pantry, you’ll find that everything that you purchase has a UPC barcode on it. Sometimes they are a […]

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Barcode Tutorial

1D Barcode Formats

There are many different types of One Dimensional Barcodes. This tutorial will show you many of the 1D Barcode Formats and will help you understand the differences. A 1D barcode or One Dimensional Barcode is […]

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Design

Barcode Fonts

The following is a list of companies where you can purchase or download barcode fonts. Aeromium Barcode Fonts – Develops and publishes barcode fonts package that creates Code39, Code128, UPCEAN and I2of5 barcodes. BarFonts – Collection of […]

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Business and Social Networking

Creating a QR Code Strategy

What is a QR code? A QR code is a 2 dimensional barcode. Unlike a UPC or an EAN barcode that contains numerical data only, is read in a single direction and requires some sort […]

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EAN Barcodes

Nationwide Barcode Facts

Periodically we do a search to see what our competitors are doing and we chuckle at the assortment of nonsense in the marketplace. There are people touting that they are the official source or official […]

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Miscellaneous

Beware of buying a Cheap UPC barcode.

Are you looking to buy a cheap UPC barcode? There are a lot of companies on the internet that sell barcodes. Many of them give you truthful information and there are a handful that are […]

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EAN Barcodes

What’s the Difference between a UPC and EAN?

There are two components to a barcode graphic. The barcode graphic and the number beneath the bars. EAN = 0012345678905 UPC = (0)012345678905 or 012345678905 The GS1, the original source for barcodes, has created the […]

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Business and Social Networking

The Retail Buyer’s Checklist

The job of a retail buyer is to make informed decisions whether or not to buy your product. They have to do this because they report to senior management who will ask them all these same questions before signing the Purchase Order and approving the purchase. […]