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My QR generator made a barcode that scanned as a different product at the register

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Had a funny failure last month with the QR/barcode generator I run. A user asked me to make a Code 128 label for a warehouse bin: "BIN-7742-A". Clean ASCII, well within the spec, nothing exotic. I generated it, they printed it, stuck it on the shelf. Two weeks later the warehouse manager complains…

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  1. 2026-10-19 07:00 · DEV Community — AI
    My QR generator made a barcode that scanned as a different product at the register

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