Discover how barcode verification works in real-world scenarios through our video library. From GS1 and ISO compliance checks to verifier walkthroughs and grading examples, these videos help you understand what makes a barcode pass—or fail. Whether you’re new to barcode quality control or looking to train your team, our expert demos are a smart place to start. Contact Intermax today to learn more.
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Intermax Barcode Verification Subscription Service
Barcodes do more than you might think—they’re essential to keeping business operations running smoothly. But let’s be real: barcode verifiers can be a big investment. That’s why Intermax created the Barcode Verification Subscription, an accessible way to ensure your barcodes meet top standards without the upfront cost of a verifier.
Start verifying your barcodes with confidence today!
Intermax iCheck Validator
Are you risking costly recalls or brand damage from mislabeled products?
Even one mislabeled product can trigger costly recalls, shipment delays, or brand damage. The Intermax iCheck Validator eliminates that risk—automating barcode validation directly on your production line.
This smart, cost-effective solution checks every item in real time, ensuring only correctly labeled products move forward. With a simple setup and powerful accuracy, it’s your easiest path to compliance and confidence.
Get Barcode Quality Right
Barcode verification is more important than ever.
From retail to warehousing, barcodes keep the supply chain running—but when they fail, the entire operation suffers. In this video, we explore how poor barcode quality leads to stock delays, manual rework, and rejected shipments—and how Intermax helps you prevent these problems before they happen.
Barcode Truncation: Why Barcode Height Matters
Truncated barcodes might look sleek on packaging—but they can lead to big problems at checkout. In this video, we break down why barcode height matters and how shortening your barcode can cause scan failures, delays, and even chargebacks from retailers.
Read more about that here: https://www.barcodeverification.com.au/understanding-truncation-and-how-to-prevent-barcode-errors/
How do you Verify a Barcode?
There are many reasons for having an ISO-grade Barcode Verifier in your organization – as well as providing for prompt and timely testing of your barcodes, it ensures that issues are discovered and fixed prior to production. Many substrates (surface material) can affect the printing of a barcode through bleed or shrinkage – only a Barcode Verifier can detect these issues! While ISO-grade Verifiers are not cheap, they are essential to anyone producing retail products and will save you valuable time (and money) getting products to market; often paying for themselves within a short period of time!
For companies with large product ranges – self-verification assists with substantial savings in administration and distribution costs as well as enabling more frequent and timely testing.
Why Is Barcode Quality important?
The accuracy of barcodes remains fundamentally important because when a barcode fails to scan it adds time and cost to the trading process. At best, data has to be keyed in manually, and at worst vendors may reject a complete consignment of goods, resulting in lost sales and possible financial penalties. Remember – barcodes are also used to re-order and replenish stock – so it makes sense to help your customers to make buying from you quicker and easier!
Why can’t I use a Barcode Scanner to test that my Barcodes read?
The issue here is that while your scanner may read the code the next scanner to try may fail – it does not provide any real result to gauge how well the barcode has been created and does not ensure that other scanners will also read your barcode. Many of the new handheld scanners on the market use a “fuzzy technology” to assist in reading poor quality barcodes – they guess the code with a fairly high level of accuracy. The expensive retail store scanners work in the opposite way – they are calibrated to NOT read poor quality barcodes – this is to ensure that an incorrect read is avoided!
Axicon Equipment Selection Video
Which Axicon Barcode Verifier is best for me?
This is a question often asked and sometimes difficult to answer without knowing; your industry, the range of products you sell, and a host of other questions.
The following video will go a long way to assisting you with this question!
Is there one Verifier that can do 1D and 2D Barcodes?
The eternal question – is there one solution that fits all??
Well, there sort of is! The new 15500 can do both linear and 2D codes – but only retail-sized codes that will fit the field of view, (95mm x 71mm).
While the new 15500 is an amazing unit that suits many customers’ needs as the one unit for all – certain pallet and carton codes can be produced in sizes up to 200mm wide and these certainly are unable to fit this unit!
Watch this video to find out more.
Maintaining Axicon Verifier Conformance
When each verifier leaves Axicon it has been checked and tested at several stages to ensure that it conforms to the International Standards Organisation for barcode verifiers and that it is able to be calibrated by the user with a traceable calibration card.
The regular calibration ensures that the verifier is measuring reflectance correctly, as its performance is affected by each computer it is connected to, its temperature, and the ambient light. This calibration does not maintain the verifier in perfect condition, as its performance will change over time – the LEDs will not necessarily all be as consistently bright as they were when new, dust can settle on some of the optical components, and the buttons and cables may be wearing out through use.
This is why we recommend that every verifier should be returned to us every year for a verifier conformance and alignment service or VCAS. During this process, we examine, clean, and reset the verifier, changing any components that may be wearing out, and ensuring that it works as well as it did when it was first manufactured. We also supply a new calibration card as its values will slightly change over time.
Why choose Axicon as you next Barcode Verifier
Axicon Auto ID is a world leader in barcode verification, having developed and manufactured our own range of verifiers since 1989. Axicon barcode verifiers are used to measure the quality of linear and matrix barcodes, on all levels of product packaging.
When standards were reviewed in 1995 and the new CEN/ISO conformance included the hardware quality as well as the Verification algorithm, most Barcode Verifier manufacturers were forced to leave the market as their products failed to meet the strict quality standards or they simply judged the cost of manufacturing too high to remain in this area. Only a very few companies remained.
Axicon not only met all quality ISO standards (EN 1635 & ISO/IEC 15416) but has gone on to become the leading manufacturer of Barcode Verifiers in the world and an established name in quality.
How do I Calibrate my Axicon Verifier
Calibration should be carried out after installation and at regular intervals.
Calibration is a quick and simple process. Select Calibrate from the Options menu of the command window (or press F2). You will see a window with two edit boxes for minimum and maximum reflectance values. Ensure that the values shown in the window match the values printed at the bottom of the calibration card.
With the Calibration window open scan the calibration barcode 10 times. Then click the OK button. The verifier is now calibrated and ready to use.
How to enable Auto Save on the Axicon Software
The CSV File option allows a subset of the scan information to be automatically appended to the specified text file in CSV format. Results saved to the CSV text file can be viewed and/or printed using any spreadsheet package.
You can save your scan results either automatically or manually via the setup screen within the software.
Often overlooked – this incredibly powerful feature offers full auditing of previous Barcode Verification scans allowing you to see the loss in quality of printing methods over time. Single products can easily be viewed over long periods of time via the search criteria available in the spreadsheet search functions.
Axicon Barcode Verifier Summary Screen Results
The Summary window shows the overall print quality of the barcode as measured in accordance with the ISO/IEC standards.
Information is also given on the:
• bar gain (ink spread or bleed),
• the size of the x-dimension (the width of the narrowest bars)
• validation of the check digit
• structure
• the quiet zones
To simplify things, results are clearly listed in Red, Yellow, and Green to indicate Problems, Warnings, and Pass results.
Free Axicon Barcode Verification App - For Android
Barcode Verification is now portable with the new Axicon Android App. And its Free from the Play Store!
The App will display all results in a similar way to the PC Software and will save all of your scans.
Simply download the software and connect your Verifier to your Android Device via a micro USB adapter and you’re ready to scan.