Barcode Printing Quality Management Points for Printing Enterprises

The bar code printing quality management work, especially the bar code printing qualification qualification work, has greatly improved the bar code printing quality. However, further grasping the key points of bar code quality management and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of bar code printing quality management are still topics that bar code printing companies and bar code quality management personnel need to continue to pay attention to and explore. The following is the author's initial exploration and comment on bar code printing quality management and bar code printing qualification.

First, bar code printing is centered on quality

Bar code quality is one of many quality factors for printing companies: an important part. In some cases, poor bar code quality can lead to overall bar code printing and quality control

The unsatisfactory quality of printing has caused hundreds of millions of printed packages to be scrapped, causing economic losses and reputation losses to printing companies. Bar code printing quality management must be quality-centered, mainly reflected in the following two points:

1. Bar code quality awareness

The first is the barcode quality awareness of business leaders. The leader of the printing company is the leader and main executor of bar code quality management. Therefore, the level of awareness of bar code quality by the leaders of printing companies is an important factor in the quality of bar code printing. Followed by all staff awareness of bar code quality work. Including barcode quality management work must comply with the requirements of the “Product Bar Code Management Measures” and “Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Product Bar Code Printing Qualifications” promulgated by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China. The bar code printing quality must meet the requirements of relevant national standards.

2. Decomposition and implementation of quality objectives and quality guidelines

Barcode printing companies should decompose the quality policy and quality objectives into business contact, design and plate making, printing materials, printing process, quality inspection and other aspects, determine bar code quality control points, formulate corresponding quality management systems, and load them into bar code printing quality. Manual, and express in the corresponding management department. The resources required for bar code printing quality management (including people, finances, and materials) must be optimized.

II. Effectively implement the relevant national standards and regulations

In order to ensure the quality of barcodes, the state promulgated and implemented a series of national standards, including: GB12904-2003 "Product Bar Codes", GB/T14257-2002 "Bar Code Positions for Printing Products," and GB/T1 8348-2001 "Bar Code Symbol Printing Quality" "Inspection", "GB/T14258-2003" "Quality of Qualification Inspection" and other national standards, "Product Bar Code Management Measures", "Product Bar Code Printing Qualification Work Implementation Measures" and other regulatory documents. Barcode printing companies should pay attention to the study and implementation of these national standards and regulatory documents, send people to participate in training and learning organized by the relevant organizations, write learning materials according to the actual situation of the enterprise, and distribute them to the relevant departments for organizational learning, so that the main technical management personnel Fully familiar with the bar code quality requirements and related technical parameters, such as the amplification factor, the size of the left and right blank area, the strip color matching, the degree of decoding, the uniqueness of the bar code, the symbol level, etc., so that the standards and technical regulations are implemented.

Third, bar code printing quality management to form a system

Bar code printing quality management is a systematic project. Printing companies must establish a bar code quality assurance system. In the form of barcode quality manuals, the company's top leaders signed and promulgated and implemented, so that many factors affecting the quality of barcodes in various processes and management processes are in a controlled state, ensuring the linkage of quality control procedures for each production process. To avoid local bar code quality work well, but the overall poor, or the overall better, but the phenomenon of major local omissions.

Fourth, ensure the effectiveness and long-term stability of bar code printing quality management

1. Strengthen system construction
To ensure the effectiveness and long-term nature of bar code printing quality management, it must be ensured by a strong system. Enterprises should establish a sound bar code verification system, a bar code design review system, a bar code offset film management system, and a bar code quality inspection system, and continue to apply it in accordance with the requirements of relevant state departments and the development of bar code technology and new problems found in corporate bar code printing practices. perfect. Business leaders should take the lead in adhering to the system. No one can violate the system for any reason. The implementation of the system must not be based on the will of the person, and rewards and punishments must be clearly defined.

2. Guaranteed national bar code standards and regulatory documents National standards for timeliness such as GB12904-2003 "Product Bar Code", GB/T14257-2002 "Barcode Product Printing Position" and regulatory documents such as "Product Bar Code Management Measures", etc. After the revision is re-enacted, the printing company shall promptly adjust the technical and management contents of the relevant documents of the enterprise in accordance with the latest bar code national standards and regulatory documents, so as to adapt to the new technical and management requirements.

3. Guaranteeing the continuity and integrity of barcode quality records The printing company should implement four systems based on barcode management, namely, the barcode verification system (mainly records the company name, address, vendor identification code, and the validity period of the barcode certificate), bar code design review system (main records Bar code size, bar empty color, bar code printing position and product item code), bar code film offset management system (mainly record film name, quantity, bar code code, film integrity, storage location and number, etc.) and bar code inspection system (main record Left and right blank area size, magnification factor, bar height, printing position, blank space color, code uniqueness, quality level, inspection time, inspection location, inspection personnel, inspection conclusion, etc.) Detailed registration and recording, these records must be continuous The only way to maintain the continuity and effectiveness of bar code printing quality management is to be complete and uninterrupted and omission.

Reprinted from: Barcodes and Information Systems