“CYBRA Corporation has been helping businesses print bar code labels and tags for the last 15 years. We’ve helped thousands of companies print countless numbers of bar codes. While helping our customers integrate our bar code software, MarkMagic, we’ve encountered just about any bar code printing challenge you could imagine. Many of the questions we’ve answered hundreds of times,” says Sheldon R. Reich, vice president of marketing for CYBRA Corporation. “To help customers sort out the many choices they have when choosing a bar code printing solution, we decided to publish this white paper.”

White Paper Abstract

Developing a bar code solution can be a challenge. There are dozens of questions that need to be answered when designing a system. When is thermal direct technology a better choice than thermal transfer? How do you select the right bar code type for your application? Does the project require high volume or low volume equipment? Bar Code Success in Black and White is a step by step primer that can help a customer: choose a bar code type, order the correct bar code printer model, and purchase compatible supplies to ensure a successful implementation.

Table of Contents

• Why Bar Code?
• Compliance Marking
• Bar Code Basics
• Sample Symbologies
• Life in the “X” Dimension
• Choosing a Bar Code Type
• Got 2D Good
• Upfront Work
• Sample UCC-128 Compliance Label
• Hard Code, or Software?
• Barcode Label Printing Technology Overview
• Advantages of Dedicated Barcode Label Printers
• Barcode Printer Technology
• Thermal Label and Tag Printers
• Direct Thermal Printing
• Thermal Transfer Printing
• How to Choose the Correct Thermal Bar Code Printer Model
• Barcode Label Printer Manufacturers
• How to Purchase the Correct Thermal Supplies
• Pitfalls to Avoid
• Glossary of Bar Code Terms
  

Availability

The 40-page white paper, “Bar Code Success in Black and White: Secrets We’ve Learned from Printing Billions of Bar Codes,” is available for download at www.cybra.com, by calling CYBRA Corporation at (800) CYBRA-88, or by emailing to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

About CYBRA Corporation

CYBRA is the developer of MarkMagic Bar Code Label, RFID, and Forms Software for the IBM iSeries, an award-winning, ServerProven by IBM middleware solution. MarkMagic supports more than 300 different printer types including most thermal tabletop and portable printers, HP and IBM laser printers, and specialty printers such as plastic ID card and fabric care label printers. MarkMagic includes at no charge JMagic, a Java-based WYSIWYG designer.

MarkMagic is the “Bar Code Print Engine Inside” leading application software from Infor/SSA Global, Manhattan Associates, ABS, VAI, and other developers.

MarkMagic Bar Code Label, RFID, and Forms Software is available for a 30-day evaluation period. CYBRA Corporation is located at One Executive Boulevard, Yonkers, NY 10701. Product information is available toll free at 1-800-CYBRA-88. CYBRA's web site is located at http://www.cybra.com/, and the company's e-mail address is: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it