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  3. July 2004

Re: 13 digit UPC code - the new Y2K

Hi Jerry,

It's my understanding that the change is to the 14-digit GTIN rather than
the EAN-13.   And the mandate is that everyone can scan and store these
symbols -- the printing side of things does not need to change as far as
I've been told.  It's just the scanning side of things.   (Though, I
imagine that the printing part of it will be next.)


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Jerry wrote:

> I understand that all computer systems must use the European UPC code system
> beginning in January, 2004.
>
> This sounds like a huge undertaking as the UPC field must expand from 12 to 13
> bytes.
>

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