Choosing right Barcode Printer for your business

A barcode is the small image of stripes separated with spaces that is found on almost all retail store items, postal mail and identification cards. They are useful to identify a particular product, location or person. A technology that has drastically reduced several tedious and time consuming jobs like product identification, stock taking, etc, barcodes are made by special printers called barcode printers. 

Technically speaking, a bar code symbol has five parts - a quiet zone, data characters, a stop character, a start character and another quiet zone. A barcode reader or scanner is used to scan/read the code. The reader uses a laser beam that is sensitive to the reflections from the lines and spaces. The reader translates the reflected light into digital data that is sent to a computer system for further action or storage.

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