The next generation of barcodes includes a heavy emphasis on QR codes and smartphone-use. Fifty years ago, on June 26, 1974, the first universal product code (UPC) was scanned at a Marsh Supermarket ...

I work for a company and it's that time of year where we need to create UPCs for all of next year's stuff. Up until now the process is to create them individually in BarCode Pro (really old program).

This guide explains how to generate barcodes in Excel without any additional installations, using both the desktop and web versions of Excel. It covers formatting cells to preserve leading zeros, ...

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More barcodes are scanned each day than searches on Google. But they won’t be around for much longer, here’s what’s coming ...