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Serialization legislation is requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers to ensure that labels printed at a late stage contain all data necessary for compliance. Since many product labels are customized by markets, customer, or product type, adding variable data to labels or packaging is a way to avoid stocking individual packaging materials for each variant.

To extract data from a barcode, a reader must be able to differentiate between the symbol’s light and dark elements. If there’s insufficient contrast between them, the reader may be unable to distinguish the barcode from its substrate. This would cause a no-read, which in turn could result in wasted time and unnecessary amounts of scrapped product.