>
> At 06:32 PM 7/30/98 -0400, George wrote:
> >That's another form of bar coding. UPC is numbers only. I agree
> >about the URL, but, hey, he was dreaming.
> >
> You're right, but I like to hang onto my dreams. They may come in handy
> some day.
If we did not dream, we would not invent, and if we did not invent, we
would still be chipping flint axes and arrow heads today. Albert Einstein
said imagination is more important than facts. Facts you can always find;
imagination... that is a little harder.
> >bar (or be within 2-4 inches). Lasers are the most reliable, and
> >some can shoot twenty feet (for inventory).
> Twenty feet! Cool, take invventory while kickin back on the couch watching
> Die Hard 2. But then, wouldn't lasers be hazardous to a monitor?
No, not if they are low power. Though you can get a nasty flash from
one if it hits you in the eye. The military and police are looking at the
use of non-harmful lasers to temporarily blind those whom they must
disarm. Something you might remember when confronted with a prowler in a
dark room. Just hold it at arms length, so in the unlikely case he shoots
at it, he will likely miss your body core.
> >> A good book on this is "The Bar Code Book", by Roger C. Palmer,
> Well, if I ever have a need to get that deep I'll pick it up, but this
> discussion is like an interactive book which is much better than a printed
> one that doesn't talk back.
And ideas flow from interactions like ours. Sometimes, as we
regurgitate what we had learned, we connect it in new ways.
> >Printing of bar codes from a laser printer will work for small
> >volumes but are not too reliable for mass reading as in a retail
> >store. Then you need thermal printers.
> I thought laser printers were faster than thermal and therefor better for
> the commercial environment.
It depends upon the application. Laser printers are larger and more
delicate. Thermal media is more expensive and has other problems with
respect to long term stability. It just depends upon what you want to use
the labels for.
> > >Gee, you'd think I know something about bar coding and retail
<g>. > Is there anything you /don't/ have indepth knowledge about? <vbg>
No matter how much we think we know, we are ignorant and even stupid
in other areas. This forum lets us tap the best each has to offer, and
ignore the worst. (Stepping off camera, stumbling, with the audience
hearing the equivalent of a pile of tin buckets crashing down. Maybe I
should clean up this lab...)
> As long as the world keeps spinning, we're gonna be dizzy,
> and we're gonna make mistakes. [Mel Brooks]
That should be a few billion more years, I hope!
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