Here are five questions you can ask yourself to find the right barcodes for your enterprise.
1. Will the product be scanned at the point of sale in retail stores?
UPC and EAN barcodes are ideal for PoS scanning.
2. Which character set needs to be supported? Alphanumeric characters?
Code39, Code128 and QR Code
3. How much space is available on the product packaging?
EAN8, UPC-E, Code128 & Datamatrix have small form factors.
4. Which material will you print the barcode on?
ITF is great for printing barcodes on corrugated cardboard.
5. Which barcode type supports the largest amounts of data?
PDF417 codes are great for storing huge amounts of data.
