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GS1 prefixes do not identify the country of origin for a given product. GS1 prefixes not listed above are reserved by GS1 Global Office for allocations in countries where no GS1 Member Organisation are established and for future use within the GS1 system. These are:
These barcodes only represent the digits 0–9, unlike some other barcode symbologies which can represent additional characters. The most commonly used EAN standard is the thirteen-digit EAN-13 , a superset of the original 12-digit Universal Product Code (UPC-A) standard developed in 1970 by George J. Laurer . [ 1 ]
GS1 is a not-for-profit, international organization developing and maintaining its own standards for barcodes and the corresponding issue company prefixes. The best known of these standards is the barcode , a symbol printed on products that can be scanned electronically.
A UPC barcode. The Universal Product Code (UPC or UPC code) is a barcode symbology that is used worldwide for tracking trade items in stores.. The chosen symbology has bars (or spaces) of exactly 1, 2, 3, or 4 units wide each; each decimal digit to be encoded consists of two bars and two spaces chosen to have a total width of 7 units, in both an "even" and an "odd" parity form, which enables ...
A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines.
Country identities may be encoded in the following coding systems: The initial digits of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) are group identifiers for countries, areas, or language regions. The first three digits of GS1 Company Prefixes used to identify products, for example, in barcodes, designate (national) numbering agencies.
The bull’s-eye barcode, after all, was the original barcode symbol, and RCA was a powerful company that had invested significant resources in developing the technology.
This is a listing of lists of country codes: List of ISO country codes (ISO 3166) ITU country code (International Telecommunication Union) List of country calling codes E.164; Mobile country code E.212; Maritime identification digits; List of ITU letter codes (radiocommunication division) UIC country code (International Union of Railways)