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L lynxwiler Member downtown L.A. Joined: Jun 22, 2003 Posts: 20	L lynxwiler Posted posted on Mon, Nov 20, 2006 2:37 PM Sorry Buzzy, but there's no telling when Gpa bought the bottle and stuck it in the garage. I wish I knew. I do find it interest that the barcode is printed in such a light shade of cyan. Today's scanning systems prefer darker inks so digital readers can pinpoint the lines more easily. I did a little research and found this piece of history on barcodes: First Commercial Use Bar coding was first used commercially in 1966, but to make the system acceptable to the industry as a whole there would have to be some sort of industry standard. By 1970, Logicon Inc. had developed the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC). The first company to produce barcode equipment for retail trade using (using UGPIC) was the American company Monarch Marking (1970), and for industrial use, the British company Plessey Telecommunications (1970). In 1972, a Kroger store in Cincinnati began using a bull’s-eye code. During that same timeframe, a committee was formed within the grocery industry to select a standard code to be used in the industry. IBM proposed a design, based upon the UGPIC work and similar to today’s UPC code. On April 3, 1973, the committee selected the UPC symbol (based on the IBM proposal) as the industry standard. The success of the system since then has spurred on the development of other coding systems. George J. Laurer is considered the inventor of U.P.C. or Uniform Product Code. First UPC Scanner In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s Gum.

Sorry Buzzy, but there's no telling when Gpa bought the bottle and stuck it in the garage. I wish I knew. I do find it interest that the barcode is printed in such a light shade of cyan. Today's scanning systems prefer darker inks so digital readers can pinpoint the lines more easily.

I did a little research and found this piece of history on barcodes:

First Commercial Use
Bar coding was first used commercially in 1966, but to make the system acceptable to the industry as a whole there would have to be some sort of industry standard. By 1970, Logicon Inc. had developed the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC). The first company to produce barcode equipment for retail trade using (using UGPIC) was the American company Monarch Marking (1970), and for industrial use, the British company Plessey Telecommunications (1970).

In 1972, a Kroger store in Cincinnati began using a bull’s-eye code. During that same timeframe, a committee was formed within the grocery industry to select a standard code to be used in the industry. IBM proposed a design, based upon the UGPIC work and similar to today’s UPC code. On April 3, 1973, the committee selected the UPC symbol (based on the IBM proposal) as the industry standard. The success of the system since then has spurred on the development of other coding systems. George J. Laurer is considered the inventor of U.P.C. or Uniform Product Code.

First UPC Scanner
In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a barcode was Wrigley’s Gum.

Post #267918 by lynxwiler on Mon, Nov 20, 2006 2:37 PM