Pricon Graphics is specialized to offer professional service for barcodes and printing quality control, that meet the needs of the client. We can give you technical support and, together with you, identify the best solution for all specific questions. When using our products we can help you maintain quality which comply to high standards.

Barcodes equipment training
We offer you professional training for every equipment we supply.

ISO barcode quality analysis
We can provide you with barcode analysis with the ONLY GS1 EAN/UCC System Standards Cerified Verifier on the market today.

Training and quality seminars
We can hold training seminars on a variety of topics.
Due to our connection to the Swiss company, we are partner with Heidelberg Print Media Academy and IPI--International Packaging Institute.
You can choose if you want just a theoretical seminar or in practice one, on your machines. You can choose the level depending on your actual know-how in your company and how much time can be invested.
Flexographic printing-basic course
Packaging-basic course
Packaging pressure-basic course
Packaging production Flexo/gravure for beginners
Bare codes / EAN
Color mixing, color management in the packaging pressure
Adaptable packaging - production, materials, qualities
The market for cardboard industry …and more!
Few of the modules are listed above and we can develop together a list with your special needs.

If you want to schedule a visit to your plant, please call us today! 0728.085.660

LESSON ONE - Don't Gamble With Your Barcode Quality

Don't Gamble With Your Barcode Quality...

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Accurate, functioning bar code symbols have become a critical requirement at all stages of the supply chain – especially as manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers all need to meet stringent compliance targets. Poor quality bar code symbols can lead to losses in productivity, massive shipping returns, and even supplier fines. Bar code verification during printing, application or before shipment saves time, money and trouble.
Bar code verification is the bridge between creating the bar code image and successful, accurate and efficient scan rates, an important part of any bar code system. Once used exclusively by large printing houses and / or major label vendors, bar code symbol verification is now commonly used for on-site demand printing as well as on warehouse receiving docks. Verifiers can be integrated, connected to the printer or conveyor system, or they can be used in a stand-alone configuration. These quality control instruments grade a bar code symbol’s print quality based upon ISO and ANSI’s published criteria. Some verifiers also provide results based on industry application standards to ensure conformance to National, Industrial and International standards.
Use of bar code verification as part of your quality control process provides an important step in increasing your AIDC system’s operating efficiency by economically reducing potential problems caused by poor symbol quality.

Avoiding costly mistakes

To emphasize the importance of accurate barcodes, a number of nationwide retailers are penalizing printers for errors, after verifying the barcodes!
As AIDC applications become more and more critical to a company’s success, the cost of bar code scanning failure becomes more significant. Such giant merchandisers as Wal-Mart, for example, have become famous for leveling whopping fines of $50,000 or more on suppliers whose product labels repeatedly misread. Consequently, bar code verification systems, once exclusively used by printers and label vendors, are now commonly used for on-site printing. Verifiers will grade a symbol unacceptable or by degrees of acceptability based upon ANSI’s published criteria, known as the Bar Code Print Quality Guideline. Verification devices can be integrated in-line, attached to the printer while monitoring the quality of every printed label or they can be used in a standalone configuration to audit batches of labels. In either case, verification can’t completely eliminate bar code performance problems. Verification can, however, provide a quantitative measure of print contrast and derive wide-to-narrow ratios, checking printed symbol conformance against symbology print quality standards.

"One discount department store chain has collected over $27 million in penalties from their vendors over the past five years," says Daniel G. Kubon, president of Label Vision Systems. "At the same time, a national pharmacy chain has calculated that one erroneous UPC can cost in excess of $8,000 direct costs and double that in intangibles, such as the deterioration of customer service. That chain has instituted a cost recovery charge of $5 per non-scanning item UPC multiplied by the number of stores stocking the item."
Kubon noted that a number of discount department stores have penalty schedules based on a formula that takes into account the number of times it supplies defective barcodes and the cost of compensating for that defect in store operations. He also states that a national auto parts retailer has developed a schedule of penalties based on their purchasing volume and the degree of the problem created by a bad barcode

Voice of the market

Manufacturers are increasingly relying on packaging systems to reduce risk, improve quality and productivity, and enhance profitability.
– Navas Deb / USA

It is essential that printers and suppliers verify the quality of their barcode symbols". Increasingly retailers and their distributors reject goods where the bar codes do not scan efficiently, or they may impose charges on the supplier.
– MR BIG (Major Retailers Barcode Integrity Group)

GS1 certification is a must for barcode verifiers
- Tim Lydell, CEO LVS Inc.

References of verifier-users

Companies using our barcode verifiers to improve their supply chain which results in quality, reliability and cost savings (open list, not defined):

The importance of good readable barcodes

Every industry that has a high cost associated with printing bad bar codes should have a verification system in place!

We can help you to make the right agreement; please do not hesitate to contact us!

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