Barcode Business

       Happy Saturday! Today I’ll be talking about barcodes, which usually appear on the bottom left or right corner of a magazine. They often contain the price and sometimes have the magazine edition and/or website. After researching a variety of websites that could generate a barcode, I chose https://barcode.tec-it.com/en/ISSN . I clicked on EAN13, which contains 13 digits, typed in a few random numbers (I started with a 0 because many magazine barcodes start with this number), and this is the result:

I added the price at the top (my price range was between $3.99 and $5.99):

It looks pretty legitimate!

        I looked at a few barcode examples from fashion magazines, and I noticed that some also have a smaller barcode to the right of the larger one, like these two (I placed a red circle around them):

        I would like for the barcode to be on the bottom left of our cover, but I’ll discuss this further with my group members before coming to my final decision.
        I did a little more research and I found out from https://www.tec-it.com/en/support/knowbase/barcode-overview/linear/Default.aspx#EAN13 that this type of barcode is called EAN13 P2, which is commonly used for magazines and paperbacks. I’ve searched for websites that could generate this type of barcode but I haven’t found any that look reliable so far. I’ll keep looking and let you know!


Stay tuned!

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Image Citations (in order of appearance):
Huffpost. (2017, December 6). Jennifer Aniston On Misconceptions, Aging And Refusing To Settle (PHOTO). Retrieved March 29, 2019, from https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jennifer-aniston-is-sick-of-misconceptions_n_1260076

Art Department Work. (2011, April 6). HAIR BY DENNIS LANNI: GLAMOUR MAGAZINE COVER – DIANE KRUGER. Retrieved March 29, 2019, from http://www.art-dept.net/2011/04/hair-by-dennis-lanni-glamour-magazine-cover-diane-kruger/