BAR CODE HISTORY The first idea about Barcode

BAR CODE

HISTORY • The first idea about Barcode was developed by Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland in 1948. • On 20 October 1949 Woodland Silver launched their pattern application for "Classifying Apparatus and Method“. The patent was issued on 7 October 1952 as US Patent 2, 612, 994. • The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley's Gum at a Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio in June of 1974.

International Article Number (EAN) • An EAN-13 barcode (originally European Article Number, but now renamed International Article Number) is a 13 digit (12 data and 1 check). • The EAN-13 barcode is defined by the standards organization GS 1. • The less commonly used EAN-8 barcodes are used also for marking retail goods; it usually reserved for smaller items, for example cigarettes, chewing gum packets, lipstick…

EAN-13 barcode • The country code: the first two or three digits, it identifies the GS 1 Member Organization which the manufacturer has joined. • The Company code: may be consist of four, five or six next digits. This number was licensed by EAN in each country. • The code item: may be consist of five, four or three digits, depend on The company code. • The check digit: the thirteen digit. ( Depend on the twelve digit before)

EAN-8 • The country code: the first three digits. • The code item: may be consist four next digits. • The check digit: the last one.

Khoảng số Quốc gia 00 -13 Mỹ & Canada 20 -29 dự trữ để sử dụng khu vực 30 -37 (cửa hàng/kho tàng) 400 -440 Đức 45, 49 Nhật Bản 46 471 Đài Loan 474 Estônia 475 Liên bang Nga Latvia 477 Litva 479 Sri Lanka 480 Philippines 482 Ukraina 484 Moldova 485 Acmênia 486 Grudia 487 Kazakhstan 489 Hồng Kông 50 Vương quốc Anh 520 Hy Lạp 528 Li băng 529 Síp 531 Macedonia 535 Malta 539 Ai Len 54 Bỉ & Luxembourg 560 Bồ Đào Nha 569 Iceland 57 Đan Mạch 590 Ba Lan 594 Rumani 599 Hungary 600 -601 Nam Phi Pháp

619 Tunisia 622 Ai Cập 625 Jordani 626 Iran 64 Phần Lan 690 -692 Trung Quốc 70 Na uy 729 Israel 73 Thụy Điển 746 Cộng hòa Dominicana 750 Mexico Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, 740 -745 Costa Rica & Panam a 759 Venezuela 76 Thụy Sĩ 770 Colombia 773 Uruguay 775, 785 Peru 777 Bolivia 779 Argentina 780 Chile 784 Paraguay 786 Ecuador 789 Brazil 80 -83 Italy 84 Tây Ban Nha 850 Cuba 858 Slovakia 859 Cộng hòa Czech 860 Nam Tư 869 Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ 87 Hà Lan 880 Hàn Quốc 885 Thái Lan

888 Singapore 890 Ấn Độ 893 Việt Nam 899 Indonesia 90 -91 Áo 93 Úc 94 Tân Tây Lan 955 Malaysia 977 ISSN (báo chí) 978 ISBN (sách) 979 ISMN (nhạc) 980 Biên lai thanh toán tiền 99 Vé, phiếu

The benefits of Barcode • Barcodes eliminate the possibility of human error. • Using a barcode system reduces employee training time. • Barcodes are inexpensive to design and print. • Inventory control improves. • Barcode is a effective tool for audit and accounting.