A company prefix is represented by the first few leading digits of a barcode number. Company prefixes in an UPC-A or EAN-13 barcode can be anywhere between 5 and 11 digits long, this is otherwise known as a “variable length prefix”. Re-seller barcodes such as ours are generally subdivided from a large batch of numbers with … Read more
Our barcodes are supplied at GS1 specification SC2 (37.29mm x 25.93mm). This is known as 100% magnification. Generally GS1 advises a minimum of 80% of the standard size (we usually reduce to a minimum SC0 82% @ 30.51 X 21.25mm). For printing your barcodes we suggest sticking to the recommended 80% – 200% magnification range. … Read more
Our standard barcode packages include both UPC-A (Universal Product Code) and EAN-13 (International Article Number) variants. Our numbers originate with the Uniform Code Council (now GS1 US) with the EAN-13 version prefixed with either a “07” or “06”. This means our barcodes can be read as either; a 12 digit UPC-A when dropping the leading … Read more