How barcodes are developed and how barcodes are written

The EAN 13 generic product barcode generally consists of a prefix part, a manufacturer**, a product**, and a check digit. The prefix code in the commodity barcode is used to identify the country or region, and the right to assign the code is in the International Article Number Association, such as 00-09 on behalf of the United States and Canada. 45 49 for Japan.

690-692 represents Chinese mainland, 471 represents Taiwan, and 489 represents Hong Kong SAR. The empowerment of manufacturers is in the article coding organization of various countries or regions, and China is given to manufacturers by the National Article Coding Center. Commodities are used to identify goods, and the right to assign codes is exercised by the product manufacturers themselves, and the manufacturers decide which Arabic numerals are used for the commodity barcodes in accordance with the prescribed conditions.

At the end of the product barcode, a 1-digit check code is used to verify the correctness of the 12th digit ** from the left in the product barcode.

Here's how to barcode your own products:

1. Open the best barcode generation software on the computer, click New, select the printer and set the label size and other information (you need to set it according to the actual label paper situation in the printer).

2. The barcode data that has been filed in the group is summarized into the form of excel, and the variable product barcode data is imported into the barcode generation software through the database setting (the software supports txt, excel, access, mysql, sqlserver and other common database types. ).

Click on the Database Settings - Add Excel Data Source - Browse - Test link ——— close. In this way, the variable barcode data is imported into the software.

3. Use the "Draw 1D Barcode" tool to add a barcode on the blank canvas, open the properties of the barcode, modify the type of the barcode to "ean13", then modify the data in the data source, and select Database Import.

It should be noted that the barcode data in this article has not been recorded, so the product information cannot be scanned.

After the production is completed, you can view the batch production of the product barcode through the print preview, and after checking that there is no problem, you can directly link to the printer for printing, or output it as a PDF document (the barcode generation software can also output TIFF, PDF (RGB, CMYK), PPML, Postscript documents, etc. in batches).

Materials required: computer, excel

1. Open the software and click New Blank Document.

2. Select Insert, enter the insertion interface, select the gallery icon, and enter the selection barcode.

3. Enter the production interface, the default is the codabar code style, which is used on the serial number service single key number and membership card.

4. Select the code to brighten and dig the drop-down arrow, choose the right coding style suitable for different industries, there are 7 styles to choose from.

5. Choose UPC-A format, the main application field is the commodity.

6. Enter the barcode number you want to make, and then click Insert below.

7. After the production is completed, it can be framed, trimmed and other operations.