Barcoding ▪️ QR ▪️ Identification ▪️ Labeling ▪️ ScannerApps ▪️ Mobile Data Acquisition

Data List with Shortened URLs Version 12 of TEC-IT's barcode maker software will be released shortly. This post introduces the built-in URL shortener capabilities of the Barcode Studio update. The new URL shortening feature provides 3 main benefits: Dramatically Reduced QR-Code Size URL shortening means squeezing a long URL into a shorter one. This is important when creating mobile tagging QR-Codes for vCards, meCards, SPARQcodes, etc. With URL shortening you reduce the amount of data to be encoded. Smaller, better readable, easier-to-share QR-Codes are the result. Free QR-Code Traceability URL shortening providers like Google ( https://goo.gl ) and Bitly ( https://bit.ly ) offer simple and free tracking features. More on this below. Data Import Assistant Batch URL Shortening The data import assistant of Barcode Studio is able to shorten thousands of URLs with a single click. Shortened URLs You are not familiar with shortened URLs? Let me give you a...

vCard Data Import Check out this post to learn more about the new features of Barcode Studio V11.6. With Barcode Studio you quickly create high-quality bar code images for pre-press requirements and desktop publishing applications. More than 100 different linear and 2D codes are supported by this software! The new release focuses on bar-code creation for mobile tagging with vCard and meCard QR codes and provides enhanced label printing features . Features and Enhancements in Detail QR-Code vCard Assistant Mobile Tagging 2D codes for mobile tagging are now using the lowest possible error correction level. This minimizes the size of the generated barcodes. Intelligent Data Import It is possible to import predefined data formats for vCard, vCalendar, meCard, etc. in a structured way. This is especially helpful for mass-creation of business card bar-codes. Copy Counter for Label Printing The user can specify how many identical copies of a single label should be printed....

Latest TEC-IT Press Release Austria, TEC-IT Datenverarbeitung GmbH ( tec-it.com ), leading vendor of AUTO-ID and bar code software presents a brand new feature for the popular barcode maker software Barcode Studio. “QR codes are becoming more and more popular. Especially the increasing need in marketing and mobile tagging is causing a rise in demand for 2D barcodes. In light of this development TEC-IT is responding with its new version of Barcode Studio.” (Guenter Kriegl, CEO of TEC-IT ) Mobile Tagging, vCard Business Cards and More QR-Code vCard Creating 2D bar-codes for electronic business cards with vCard and meCard formats is simplified dramatically: The brand new assistant leads you through the data input with a multifunctional dialog box, the user just enters the contact details and the assistant takes care of generating the 2D barcode with the correct data formatting. No special knowledge is needed. What’s more, mobile tagging barcodes for events, Android Mar...

A new version of the barcode creator software Barcode Studio is on the way! What’s New? Barcode Studio V11.5 introduces a new data input assistant . This special feature simplifies the creation of 2D codes for mobile tagging and electronic business cards (so-called vCard and meCard barcodes) dramatically. With Barcode Studio V11.5 you are able to create more than 100 different linear, postal, GS1 and 2D barcode symbologies. The barcodes can be printed on simple labels or exported as bitmap or vector image files. Batch barcode creation with external data is supported. 2D Codes for Mobile Tagging vCard Data Input Assistant vCard and meCard QR-codes are used to encode contact details of a business card (like name, address, email, phone-number ...) in a 2D barcode symbol. When scanning such a barcode with a smartphone (camera and suitable scanner software is required of course), the data is automatically entered into the address book of the phone. No manual typing or copy/paste i...

How to Create vCard Business Cards with Barcode Studio Some users of Barcode Studio are unsure regarding the correct data format for creating barcodes for so-called 2D code business cards. Such an "electronic” business card encodes the contact data in a QR-Code or a Data Matrix symbol. These codes can be scanned with your smartphone. The business card data is recognized automatically, you will never need to key in contact data manually! Most camera-equipped mobile phones are able to decode QR-Codes on such business cards (Data Matrix is not in common use until now). The example outlined in this post contains vCard sample data (.xls and .csv files) and a setting file for Barcode Studio . This settings file (*.BCS) can be used immediately to create premium quality QR-Codes with Barcode Studio. Creating a vCard Data Format A vCard barcode must follow certain rules, the different elements of a business cards (e.g. the phone number) are tagged with prefixes. Some sample prefix...