What does RSS stand for?

Previously known as Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) barcodes, GS1 DataBar has been endorsed by GS1 for global, unrestricted trade item identification from 1 January 2010 onwards.

In May and June I discussed the opportunities that our industry will enjoy if we aggressively adopt and use Reduced Space Symbology for coupons, prescription drugs and perishables.

The JICC identified Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) as the best option available to the industry to re-engineer bar codes to achieve benefits including faster coupon processing and improvements in validation and processing controls.

BTI) and The NOSCO Printing Group have joined forces to facilitate the bar coding of drugs and medical products with reduced space symbology (RSS) bar codes.

After retailers approached the UCC with this concern in 1995, the organization has worked with retailers and hardware and software vendors to create guidelines for a new bar code called Reduced Space Symbology (RSS).

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated that pharmaceutical companies bar code their medicines down to the unit of dose so that they can be scanned in hospitals and endorsed Reduced Space Symbology as a means to reduce medication errors.

Differentiated Features -- The Symbol LS 3408 products are highly ruggedized, feature a new industrial design and support reduced space symbology applications and signature capture.

BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2003 Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ - CGNX), the world's leading supplier of machine vision systems and sensors, today announced that the company's award winning In-Sight(R) vision sensors now have the ability to read Composite Symbology (CS) in addition to Reduced Space Symbology (RSS) codes on pharmaceutical packages for the purpose of product identification and traceability.