Talk:Universal Product Code/Archives/2013
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I was working at the RCA Camden lab when the bulls eye scheme was being developed. By the time I saw it (probably in late 1973 or early 1974) the developers had resigned themselves to the fact that IBM would win the supermarket business, but they were still trying to sell it to the Post Office, for package tracking.
Among the odd things they had developed was a "printer" that consisted of a rotating cylinder containing about 2 dozen ball-point pen refills, one for each bar position. The end of the cylinder would be pressed against the surface to be printed and rotated, while actuators (don't recall if air or electromagnetic) would press the appropriate pens against the surface.
I never saw a real package bearing the bulls eye, so I suspect the project never got beyond the experimental stage.drh (talk) 03:08, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
I would like to include the following site as its a specializing search dedicated to upc via various distributed sources.
Also would like to demonstrate the dynamicity of barcode image creation via this website using simple HTML statements.
Please let me know if I can do that.
Thank You Gnsathu (talk) 19:49, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I don't believe these links are at issue...Glrx (talk) 17:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
As long as we are here...
If you find others, then add them....
Please consider adding this free barcode lookup service. I believe this site would be a good supplemental source for lookups, and also includes a QRCode/UPC/EAN/Code128 generator.
The site is: http://www.upcscavenger.com
I believe listing multiple lookup sites is important (if any are to be listed) as I do not see them as 'example lookups', but rather resources in order to find out product information based on UPC or other product code. To that affect only listing a couple of sites will prevent the user from being able to utilizing these links as a resource instead of an example. The main reason I am submitting this site is because I see other UPC search engines that are far less informative to the user being listed. The "milk server" page is essentially a donation page with a broken UPC image generator.
The argument I encounter on whether to list any upc search engines is between the potential monetary compensation for being a resource, and the potential information and access to desired goods reflecting those product codes. In other words, the sites providing information and access to the product itself becomes the reason to provide these sites as external references (or integrated into page) with any potential monetary compensation being a side affect. Taking a upcscavenger.com example: there are many product pages on the site which list no available means to obtain the product, but still allow for specification, comments, and media content to be added in relation to the UPC/EAN code.
Being a little bit purposely overly innovation; what I would like to see is information about these sites and how they relate to the UPC code. For example, the site listed below and upc-database.com both have API access. Even though upc-database.com has the smallest actual UPC record content of many "general" UPC look sites, the explanation of what and how a barcode API works allows for other users to understand and innovate new methods that could potentially one day be a link to publicly accessible global API (which GS1 does not provide).
The upcScavenger site provides supplemental information about the products, allows non-registered users to comment, and allows registered users to edit the product info wiki pages themselves (uses a Wikimedia proprietary clone wiki parser). This creates a unique 'spin-off' of Wikipedia itself as it directs the scope into a narrow subject (i.e. "things" represented by QRCode/UPC/EAN). This in itself has the potential to provide a large amount of information that would normally not be cataloged on Wikipedia, and provide a friendly 'media wiki' manner in which to add content. The most informative portion, besides the direct UPC to product relation, is the wikipedia page content that is available in relation to product information. The upcscavenger.com site contains a mirror of publicly available Wikipedia content in order to provide supplemental information to the user. With this in mind one has to also question how useful this would be to Wikipedia itself since the information would be a redundant copy, albeit linked in a relation manner to the UPC product info pages.
Briburrell (talk) 23:46, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
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