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From: piskac@ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Piskac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: UPC label maker for C= 128
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.195751.17432@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 19:57:51 GMT
References: <1990Jun23.153241.16105@ecn.purdue.edu> <13976.269388eb@max.u.washington.edu>
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In article <13976.269388eb@max.u.washington.edu>, scott@max.u.washington.edu writes:
>  
> UPC stands for Universal Product Code, and they are those bar codes that
> you see in almost every items that you purchase now days.
> This bar codes can be read-off quickly by a bar-code scanner.
> Having a means to generate this bar codes can serve many useful
> purposes. For example,

  This is correct.

> If you are owner of a movie theater, printing the bar code
> on to the movie theater ticket could make counting of the tickets
> and validation of the tickets a lot easier, just scan then with a
> bar-code scanner ....    
>  
  This is not correct.  UPC labels are for products only.  Other bar
  code schemes are used to count tickets.

  UPC labels are a 12 position number that identifies a company and
  its product(s).

  For more information cantact the Universal Product Code Council
  in Dayton, OHIO.

  piskac@en.ecn.purdue.edu