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All About UPC Barcode & EAN BarcodeThe Universal Product Code or UPC barcode was the first bar code symbology widely adopted. Its birth is usually set at April 3, 1973, when the grocery industryformally established UPC as the standard bar code symbology for product marking. Foreign interest in UPC led to the adoption of the EAN code format, similar toUPC, in December 1976.

2005 Sunrise and the Global Trade Item Number initiatives from the UCC will begin on January 1, 2005. This is the "fourteen digit U.P.C." that everyone is talkingabout. There are quite a few misconceptions and considerable misinformation about the effect of this change. In a nutshell, if you are a manufacturer of a productthat has an existing 8 or 12-digit UPC barcode, don't worry. You do not have to change anything. However, if you are a retailer or wholesaler with scanners, youpotentially are affected. You will need to ensure that scanners are able to decode 8, 12, 13 and 14-digit barcodes (most scanners sold for the last 5 years can do

this) and that database systems can handle the extra digits. Gregg London was kind enough to share an excellent white paper on the subject. Once January 1,2005 comes, both EAN and UPC labels should scan properly worldwide.

There are now five versions of UPC and two versions of EAN. The Japanese Article Numbering (JAN) code has a single version identical to one of the EAN versionswith the flag characters set to ``49''.

UPC and EAN symbols are fixed in length, can only encode numbers, and are continuous symbologies using four element widths.

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300 - 379 GS1 France

380 GS1 Bulgaria

383 GS1 Slovenia

385 GS1 Croatia

387 GS1 BIH (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

400 - 440 GS1 Germany

450 - 459 & 490 - 499 GS1 Japan

460 - 469 GS1 Russia

470 GS1 Kurdistan

471 GS1 Taiwan

474 GS1 Estonia

475 GS1 Latvia

476 GS1 Azerbaijan

477 GS1 Lithuania

478 GS1 Uzbekistan

479 GS1 Sri Lanka

480 GS1 Philippines

481 GS1 Belarus

482 GS1 Ukraine

484 GS1 Moldova

485 GS1 Armenia486 GS1 Georgia

487 GS1 Kazakhstan

489 GS1 Hong Kong

500 - 509 GS1 UK

520 GS1 Greece

528 GS1 Lebanon529 GS1 Cyprus


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530 GS1 Albania

531 GS1 MAC (FYR Macedonia)

535 GS1 Malta

539 GS1 Ireland

540 - 549 GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg

560 GS1 Portugal

569 GS1 Iceland

570 - 579 GS1 Denmark

590 GS1 Poland

594 GS1 Romania599 GS1 Hungary

600 - 601 GS1 South Africa

603 GS1 Ghana

608 GS1 Bahrain

609 GS1 Mauritius

611 GS1 Morocco

613 GS1 Algeria

616 GS1 Kenya

618 GS1 Ivory Coast

619 GS1 Tunisia

621 GS1 Syria

622 GS1 Egypt

624 GS1 Libya

625 GS1 Jordan

626 GS1 Iran

627 GS1 Kuwait

628 GS1 Saudi Arabia

629 GS1 Emirates

640 - 649 GS1 Finland


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690 - 695 GS1 China

700 - 709 GS1 Norway

729 GS1 Israel

730 - 739 GS1 Sweden

740 GS1 Guatemala

741 GS1 El Salvador

742 GS1 Honduras

743 GS1 Nicaragua

744 GS1 Costa Rica

745 GS1 Panama746 GS1 Dominican Republic

750 GS1 Mexico

754 - 755 GS1 Canada

759 GS1 Venezuela

760 - 769 GS1 Switzerland

770 GS1 Colombia

773 GS1 Uruguay

775 GS1 Peru

777 GS1 Bolivia

779 GS1 Argentina

780 GS1 Chile

784 GS1 Paraguay

786 GS1 Ecuador

789 - 790 GS1 Brazil

800 - 839 GS1 Italy

840 - 849 GS1 Spain

850 GS1 Cuba

858 GS1 Slovakia

859 GS1 Czech


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860 GS1 YU (Serbia & Montenegro)

865 GS1 Mongolia

867 GS1 North Korea

868 - 869 GS1 Turkey

870 - 879 GS1 Netherlands

880 GS1 South Korea

884 GS1 Cambodia

885 GS1 Thailand

888 GS1 Singapore

890 GS1 India893 GS1 Vietnam

899 GS1 Indonesia

900 - 919 GS1 Austria

930 - 939 GS1 Australia

940 - 949 GS1 New Zealand

950 GS1 Global Office955 GS1 Malaysia

958 GS1 Macau

977 Serial publications (ISSN)

978 - 979 Bookland (ISBN)

980 Refund receipts

981 - 982 Common Currency Coupons

990 - 999 Coupons

More information about EAN-13 is available here.

EAN-8 has a left-hand guard pattern, four odd parity digits, a center guard pattern, four even parity digits, and a right-hand guard pattern. An EAN-8 bar code hastwo flag digits, five data digits, and one check digit. There is additional information about EAN-8 here.

Information about Bookland EAN and ISBN numbering of books can be found at BarCode 1's Bookland EAN and ISBN Page.

There is a good explanation of Bookland EAN bar code symbols used by the publishing industry at the Infinity Graphics site. There is also a very good explanationabout Bookland EAN Add-On Code, used for storing the price of a book or magazine.

If you need to compute the check digit for UPC-A (UCC-12) in Excel, the following will work:

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