Corporate Parent: BTI

BTI is a leading information management solutions and bar coding technology company. Using patented and patent pending software technology BTI provides consulting to a wide spectrum of industries. Our wholly owned subsidiary, SNX Software, Inc., is the premier bar code graphic software provider, delivering innovative and proprietary bar code technology to over 150,000 users throughout the world since 1978.

Barcode Technology helps companies use RSS (Reduced Space Symbology) bar code. RSS encodes more data in a smaller area with greater efficiency over traditional UPC (A) barcode. The Uniform Code Council has recommended the use of RSS when it runs out of UPC numbers in 2004. Read the Executive Summary of 2005 Sunrise published by the Uniform Code Council.

Using RSS bar code allows drugs, for example, to function within the automated systems used by today's pharmacies, thus reducing costs, and most importantly, saving lives. BTI was instrumental in developing RSS bar code with the Uniform Code Council, helping to create the standard that exists today.

Since BTI's first RSS pilot with Abbott Laboratories in August of 2001, BTI's RSS and Composite bar code software has become the standard for use in the Pharmaceutical Sector.

In 2002, BTI demonstrated the first in-line production RSS driven ink jet and thermal printing solution at a manufacturing facility at line speeds.

In April of 2003, BTI and Domino-Amjet, in response to industry demand, hosted a demonstration of in-line RSS composite printing, using Domino's new DDC3 scribing laser coder. In another breakthrough, BTI also demonstrated the first in-line, composite verification, and ANSI grading.

In March of 2004 Domino Amjet with Barcode Technology Inc. presented the only high-speed laser system to print variable RSS type barcodes that comply with the newly published FDA rule. The UCC/EAN Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) bar code is one of the densest bar codes allowing data to be recorded in a much smaller space than conventional linear technologies like UPC, EAN or Code 128.

The use of RSS permits drug manufacturers to encode lot number and expiration date as well as other information in RSS composite bar code on their products and to do it on small unit-dose vials and other miniature-sized package labels at speeds that exceed 400 labels per minute. In 2004, Domino and BTI have already performed demonstrations for major pharmaceutical companies and plan to continue marketing this product to manufacturers who will introduce these systems to prevent further unnecessary deaths in the medical field.

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