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  Universal Product Code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first item to be placed under a UPC scanner in a retail store was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio, on June 24, 1974.
EAN was developed as a superset of UPC, adding an extra digit to the beginning so that there would be plenty of numbers for the entire world.
The prefix digit 0 has been reserved for UPC, and in fact the Uniform Code Council has mandated all retail systems be able to recognize UPC and EAN together by the end of 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Universal_Product_Code   (1025 words)

  
 Barcodes (UPC)
UPC is a coding system as well as a symbology; it is designed to uniquely identify a product and its manufacturer.
UPC is a fixed length, numeric, continuous symbology using four element widths.
UPC E has 8 digits where the first digit is always "0" and is also added by ActiveBarcode automatically - you do not need to enter the leading zero.
www.tkb-4u.com /code/barcode/upc.php   (787 words)

  
 Berkeley Unified Parallel C (UPC) Project
UPC is not a superset of these three languages, but rather an attempt to distill the best characteristics of each.
UPC combines the programmability advantages of the shared memory programming paradigm and the control over data layout and performance of the message passing programming paradigm.
We are implementing optimizations for the common special cases in UPC where a programmer uses either the default, cyclic block layout for distributed arrays, or a shared array with 'indefinite' blocksize (i.e., existing entirely on one processor).
upc.lbl.gov   (808 words)

  
 UPC Documentation
UPC collectives have been discussed at workshops at SC2001, SC2002, SC2003, and at workshops held at George Washington University in March, 2002, and May, 2003.
The memory consistency model underlying UPC is one of the most interesting and important aspects of the language.
It is crucial that UPC developers have a clear and univocal vision of what the memory model does and does not allow.
www.gwu.edu /~upc/documentation.html   (943 words)

  
 bostonwebspace.com - Official BostonWebSpace UPC Database Website
There are many sites on the net that allow users to submit and search UPC databases, but none that we've found allow the users to actually have a copy of the database.
UPC databases are obviously held very closely and can cost lots of money to obtain.
UPC bar code reading is a great feature to add to any application that involves inventory or access.
upc.bostonwebspace.com   (253 words)

  
 Service Objects -- DOTS UPC Lookup
To enter UPC numbers manually please make sure you enter all digits (usually 11, 12 or 13) starting with the left digit and including the right digit.
UPC can be printed on packages using a variety of printing processes.
The UPC format can be scanned by hand-held wands and can be printed by equipment in the store.
www.serviceobjects.com /products/dots_upc.asp   (231 words)

  
 About UPC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Known as "UPC", the University Program Council is a volunteer board of students who work to bring world-class programs to the Ohio University Campus.
Students are encouraged to get involved in UPC as a means to meet new people, develop personal/professional skills, and to become an active member of the University community.
The direction of UPC is based upon the ideas and feedback generated by student members.
www.ohiou.edu /~upc/about.html   (159 words)

  
 Barcode Standards Labels UPC
The UPC-A Code and the assignment of manufacturer ID numbers is controlled in the U.S.A. by the Uniform Code Council located in Dayton, Ohio.
EAN-13 symbol as well as the standard UPC-A. This change will eliminate the need for manufacturers who export goods to the US and Canada to double-label their products.
A UPC-A code may be augmented with a two-digit supplemental barcode to indicate the issue number for a periodical.
www.a1bar.com /upcstandards.htm   (688 words)

  
 PS Audio - Power Products - UPC-200 - UPC-200 More Info
Ultimate Power Cells™ (UPC) combine the best of the High Current Ultimate Outlet, a Balun and its associated components, along with a 10 fold increase in energy storage and release, improved core material and a few engineering tricks we are not at liberty to write about.
Another advantage of the UPC module’s function as a one way gate for power line noise is keeping garbage generated by the very equipment you are trying to improve and protect out of everything else plugged into the wall socket.
Perhaps one UPC 200 is used to separate and power all the analog and digital source components, while a second UPC 200 is used is parallel mode to power your big stereo or mono block amplifiers.
www.psaudio.com /products/upc200_overview.asp   (1258 words)

  
 Universal Product Code (UPC) and EAN Article Numbering Code (EAN)
UPC and EAN symbols are fixed in length, can only encode numbers, and are continuous symbologies using four element widths.
The first overhead digit of a UPC version A symbol is a number related to the type of product while an EAN symbol uses the first two characters to designate the country of the EAN International organization issuing the number.
The UPC symbol is decoded by measuring the distance from leading edges to leading edge of bars, trailing edge to trailing edge of bars and leading edge to leading edge of characters.
www.adams1.com /pub/russadam/upccode.html   (2069 words)

  
 Understanding Bar Codes
The fourth part of a UPC symbol is the centre guard pattern which consists of two thin vertical lines a bit taller than the other bars.
The seventh part of a UPC symbol is the right guard pattern, which serves the same purpose as the left guard pattern.
The bars in a UPC symbol consist of two bars and two spaces for each digit to be encoded.
educ.queensu.ca /~compsci/units/encoding/barcodes/undrstnd.html   (801 words)

  
 The Post: UPC runs low on funding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
UPC, which was allotted $63,000 for 1997-98, has about $8,000 to spend on programs and activities for the rest of the year, said Rick Danals, associate director of student activities and UPC's adviser.
The UPC films series, which drew sell-out crowds at Mem Aud for movies such as "Jerry Maguire" and "The Lion King," generated revenue for UPC in the past.
Plans are in the works for a comedian for Mom's Weekend, but UPC will not sponsor another concert this year unless an outside promoter covers the costs, she said.
thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives/021298/upc.html   (930 words)

  
 EAN / UPC
The UPC-A Code and the assignment of manufacturer ID numbers is controlled in the United States by the Uniform Code Council.
EAN / UPC codes may be augmented with a two-digit supplemental bar code to indicate the issue number for a periodical.
Sizes for the EAN / UPC symbols are determined by a "magnification" factor which is based on the "X" dimension size.
www.autoid.org /Primer/ean_upc.htm   (1045 words)

  
 UPC/EAN Barcode Font Data Sheet.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Other various font heights are marked with a number that represents the height in MM of the barcode (minus the human-readable number) printed at 20 points.
When printing the UPC / EAN barcode font at 18 or 20 points, a high quality laser printer with a 600 DPI or greater should be used; it may also be necessary to reduce the print intensity if you have increased this in the past to a value greater than normal.
The layout for all symbols of the UPC and EAN barcodes is presented in figures 1-1 through 1-5.
www.bizfonts.com /upc-ean/faq.htm   (1365 words)

  
 UPC-->Software-->FAQs
UPC also recommends, but does not require, that each office maintain at least one connection to the State of Utah Wide Area Network (WAN).
UPC is offering the software for no charge as a tool to help increase the productivity and case tracking ability of each prosecutor’s office.
UPC will update the charge tables at all sites on a regular basis to reflect the necessary changes and additions (including annual legislative changes).
www.upc.state.ut.us /SOFTWARE/FAQs.htm   (1001 words)

  
 UPC-A SYMBOLOGY
The "UPC-A barcode" is by far the most common and well-known symbology, at least in the United States.
UPC-A encodes 11 digits of numeric (0 through 9) message data along with a trailing check digit, for a total of 12 digits of barcode data.
UPC-A is a subset of EAN-13; in reality, an UPC-A barcode is an EAN-13 barcode with the first EAN-13 number system digit set to "0".
www.barcodeisland.com /upca.phtml   (926 words)

  
 Boston.com / Business / Lowly UPC code stands the mark of time -- 30 years later
The UPC, the most common version of the bar code, wasn't as warmly embraced as some emerging technologies, but its impact on retailing has been enormous.
The code came about after a group of grocers got together in Ohio in the late 1960s to look for a faster way to serve customers, track inventory, and make better use of employees who were stamping prices on individual products.
Their symbol included lines of various widths that could be read by a primitive light scanner, but their concept was deemed impractical for business use.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/07/04/lowly_upc_code_stands_the_mark_of_time____30_years_later   (544 words)

  
 Situación lingüística en la UPC
The linguistic situation at UPC is quite a reflection of its surrounding society.
Most of UPC's Web Site institutional contents are also in Spanish and English and will be shortly entirely available in these languages.
Being concerned about how your studies at UPC may be affected by the language environment is very common.
www.upc.es /ari/english/3/3.2/3.2.htm   (691 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
UPC provides entertainment for the entire campus in the form of major concerts, lectures, free blockbuster and outdoor movies, comedians, plays, and inflatable games.
UPC produces over 100 special events each year including Tigermaina, Splash into Spring, and Tiger Nights, the most successful late-night programming event in the nation.
All events are programmed by twelve student committees, which are led by student directors and assistants.
www.auburn.edu /upc   (65 words)

  
 UPC -A
The UPC-A barcode is the most common and well-known symbology in the United States.
UPC-A encodes 11 digits of numeric data along with a trailing check digit, for a total of 12 digits of barcode data.
A UPC-A symbol can be divided into two halves, each consisting of six digits separated by a center guard bar pattern.
www.morovia.com /education/symbology/upc-a.asp   (699 words)

  
 BarCode 1 Quick Tour FAQ
According to George Laurer, the inventor of UPC, if the company joined the Uniform Code Council prior to August 28, 2002, the Uniform Code Council's membership and licence agreement did not contain any prohibition against subdividing the numbers.
The three companies in the United States that are issuing single UPC numbers are Simply Barcodes (www.upccode.us), www.buyabarcode.com and www.upcexpress.com.
The UPC Database Project is another public UPC database from Glenn J. Schworak.
www.adams1.com /pub/russadam/new.html   (3446 words)

  
 Symbologies
A bar code symbol is a parallel pattern of variable width bars and spaces; symbologies is the industry term describing the inviolable rules that specify the way that data is encoded into that pattern of bars and spaces.
UPC is a coding system, as well as a symbology, that uniquely identifies both the manufacturer and its products.
There are 12 digits in the UPC Version A (UPC-A) symbology, the first six are assigned by the Uniform Code Council.
www.dataindex.com /symbol.htm   (872 words)

  
 UPC Projects at MTU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To that end, we are working on clarifying the semantics of the memory model, providing pedagogical materials, and developing programming patterns that exploit the memory model to its fullest.
The programmability and useablity of UPC is studied through a collection of programs and experiments.
This is a test suite of UPC code that was originally developed for testing MuPC but it can be used to test any UPC system.
www.upc.mtu.edu   (306 words)

  
 What's an ISBN, a UPC, and a checksum
A UPC is a Universal Product Code, which is used in bar code format on all manner of goods for sale.
The first three numbers of a UPC for books are always "978," which identifies a mythical place called "Bookland." I kid you not.
The UPC for books is sometimes referred to as the "Bookland EAN." EAN is an international organization that coordinates non-U.S. assignment and conformity of UPC codes and standards.
isbn.nu /whatsanisbn.html   (367 words)

  
 UPC Database Entry
Enter the all digits printed on the UPC bar code, including any numbers to the right or left of the bar code itself, even if they don't line up with the main row of numbers.
This should be 12 digits for a normal Type A UPC code, or 8 digits for a Type-E (zero-supressed) UPC code.
If you have a barcode scanner that outputs plain numbers, you should be able to use it to enter the UPC number here.
www.upcdatabase.com /item.pl   (101 words)

  
 UPC/EAN Barcode Fonts for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX.
UPC, UCC, EAN, JAN, ISBN and Bookland barcodes can all be created from our UPC/EAN Font Advantage Package with the exception of EAN-14, UCC-128 and EAN-128; these are created with the Code 128 Barcode Fonts.
UPC - The Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode has been used in the retail industry in the US and Canada since 1973.
UPC-A consists of 12 numbers and UPC-E consists of 12 numbers that are compressed into 8 numbers for small packages.
www.idautomation.com /fonts/upc-ean   (1949 words)

  
 UPC Rowing Team
The rowing regatta UB versus UPC is made anually on the 2nd.
On the academical 90/91 year, the sports departament of the UPC arranged the first beginners courses in colaboration with the Reial Club Marítim de Barcelona (RCMB).
In may 1991, the courses ended with the first UB vs. UPC Regatta, where an eight of each university participated.
www.univers.upc.es /rem/angles/ubvsupci.htm   (320 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: UPC: Distributed Shared-Memory Programming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Authors El-Ghazawi, Carlson, and Sterling are among the developers of UPC, with close links with the industrial members of the UPC consortium.
With its extensive use of examples, UPC programming case studies, and illustrations, it offers new insights into developing efficient and effective UPC applications such as high-speed signal processing and pattern recognition.
UPC, or Unified Parallel C [CAR99, ELG01, ELG03] is an explicit parallel language that provides the facilities for direct user specification of program parallelism and control of data distribution and access.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471220485?v=glance   (689 words)

  
 UPC Check Digit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The two most common are the 12 digit UPC Version A and the 8 digit UPC Version E. For the purpose of this document only Version A will be considered.
If the UPC Version A given is invalid, the valid check digit for the 11 assigned digits will be provided.
Enter the UPC in the first text field and then press the button titled "Verify UPC Barcode".
www.qucis.queensu.ca /~bradbury/checkdigit/upccheck.htm   (324 words)

  
 UPC Hungary
Fill in, sign and submit the direct debit instruction form along with your UPC Direct service agreement and the statement containing the offer conditions during the special offer period, and you won't even have to pay 50% (10 000 HUF) of the deposit.
If direct debit payment is not activated within 4 months at most after signing the contract, the UPC Direct service provider is entitled to bill the remaining 50% (10 000 HUF) of the deposit.
If the subscription is cancelled or suspended for any reason, or if payment dates are missed, regulations of the General Contract Terms come into action, including that in the event of cancelling the subscription the subscriber is required to return the set top box to the UPC Direct service provider in full, working condition.
www.upc.hu /upchu_eng/upchu/upchu_eng/index.php?PageID=112508   (502 words)

  
 UPC Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
UPC has set up a special fund for our hurricane relief efforts.
UPC welcomes any and all to their service.
The Celtic "Tilly" Cross hangs in the sanctuary at UPC.
www.lsu.edu /student_organizations/upc   (704 words)

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