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Anyone on here had the need to buy barcodes for their products?

We're needing to get some for our bottled beer. Any advice most welcome.

Could be a reward of bottles of beer for any top tips......

Go to the zoo and photograph some zebras.

Print them out and stick them on the bottles - job done.

Many thanks for your help. Here's your bottle of beer. Don't drink it all at once.  :)

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GS1 website any help?

http://www.gs1uk.org/resources/help_support/Pages/GS1numbersforbarcoding.aspx

Assume you will need a GTIN-13 if you are going into store distribution as well as online.  Once you have assigned numbers most font packages can develop a GTIN 13 barcode.

No idea what sort of distribution you aiming for but "beer" in mind if you going for the big boys (Tesco, M&S, WMM, Asda etc) they will all have specific requirements that differ retailer to retailer.

You can create barcodes in CorelDraw if you have access to it.  There's lots of different types though.  Not that it helps but I read an article once on QR codes, (those new funky square barcodes) where you could have coloured ones and have an image in them too.  Can't remember where it was, maybe PC Pro magazine, but it was interesting. 

most product produced or labelled in uk and europe use a barcode format called 
EAN 13

You cannot randomly produce these you need to go to a printer that is able to create these codes  or pay for the abilty to create your own

 try a commerial printer like "paxar"

alternatively you could if customers will accept it use a free format type of barcode ie code 39 and print your own

word of warning if you going to print your own you will need decent thermo printer to give good qaulity barcodes

Many thanks for the responses. We've purchased a pack of 10 barcodes which will be enough to get us started. Not initially looking to supply any of the "big boys" - plenty of gift shops, hotels and restaurants around Loch Ness to keep us going for a while.

For a bit of background, we've been brewing for just over a year on a 2 barrel plant but have now expanded to an 8 barrel plant with new premises along the road. Cask ale demand is good, but demand for the bottles is quite staggering, hence the need for barcodes!

Exciting times but bloody difficult due to our shitty banking system.

All we need to do now is brew a BlondeNESS for the poker world....

What's the beer like?

Fantastic, but then I would say that.

I'd imagine it is - but describe it!  Might order some :)up

Well, the website's got descriptions of the beers www.lochnessbrewery.com (http://www.lochnessbrewery.com) which should, hopefully, tantalise your tastebuds. Early in the New Year we should be OK for sending out beers - don't have enough stocks just yet - so sadly none for Christmas.

Let me know and I'll sort some out at very reasonable costs.  ;cupcake;

http://www.lochnessbrewery.com/#!beers/cwvn

Going to have to try a few now!  The stout sounds good, and so do the WilderNESS, RedNESS and LochNESS.... :D

Aye, didn't take us too long to come up with the names! Keep it simple I always think. That way I can understand it.  ;ashamed;

Names work well I reckon.  Hope they taste as good as the descriptions make them sound.

Seems like the right place to post this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20718362

RIP Norman Joseph

(Just told the missus, and she replied with "blip")