Can You Save Money by Printing Your Own Barcode Labels or by Using Barcode Software?

Friday, October 30, 2009
Posted in: Applications

DIY Barcode Labels or Barcode Software—the Whole Package

You’ve been buying barcode files or barcode labels from some outsource
They’ve been a good vendor but…it’s an itemized cost that you can see month after month and it bugs you
You, because you could, (so says the software vendor)
decide it would be cheaper to do it yourself

Did I get the conversation in your head about right?

Well, it’s more than mostly true—it is all true. But it is not the whole truth.

What you don’t tell yourself—because it doesn’t occur to you—and what the software vendors don’t tell you—because they don’t want you to think about it—is that when you acquire barcode software or when you do your own barcoce labels, you also acquire all the liability.

It’s also true that not all barcode file providers and barcode label printers take responsibility for the quality of their barcoding products, but the really reputable ones do and say so, in terms such as “Guaranteed Quality”. Furthermore you can gauge the integrity of a barcode file or barcode label vendor who, after receiving your data, calls you and asks questions or points out potential problems with your barcode data.

We’ve done that any number of times—especially with coupon codes where we’re not sure the customer intended to make as generous an offer as their data would indicate.

We’ve also called customers who have inadvertently reissued a barcode number for a different product, which our database caught.

There are myriad other scenarios of averted disasters proving Murphy’s Law over and over. But the point is, the cost of the barcode software is not the whole expense and the savings could be erased with one liability-triggering event.

Software is a license to drive. But you also need to know what you’re doing and insurance to protect you from the unavoidable.

Knowing what you’re doing is the result of ongoing education. There are a few good barcode seminars available to help you establish a baseline of knowledge. From there your challenge is to stay up to date because barcode creation and compliance labeling are dynamic technologies, especially in the retail channel.

As for insurance, this takes the form of a barcode verifier which tests and grades the quality and performance of a barcode printed image.

DIY barcode files or barcode labels, can you do it yourself? You can, but are you up to the challenge?

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Posted by on 02/03 at 11:14 PM

I will vote for using software solutions in general due to easy to handle and more Robust solution.

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