BAR CODE

HISTORY• The first idea about Barcode was developed by

Bernard Silver and Norman Joseph Woodland in 1948 .

• On 20 October 1949 Woodland and 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 GS1.

• 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 GS1 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 Khoảng

số Quốc gia Khoảng số Quốc gia

00-13 Mỹ & Canada 20-29dự trữ để sử dụng khu vực(cửa hàng/kho tàng)

30 -37 Pháp

400-440 Đức 45, 49 Nhật Bản 46 Liên bang Nga471 Đài Loan 474 Estônia 475 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

609 Mauritius 611 Ma rốc 613 Algeria

619 Tunisia 622 Ai Cập 625 Jordani

626 Iran 64 Phần Lan 690-692 Trung Quốc

70 Na uy 729 Israel 73 Thụy Điển

740-745

Guatemala,El Salvador,Honduras,Nicaragua,

Costa

Rica & Panama

746 Cộng hòaDominicana 750 Mexico

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.