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• Nairn0

  You CAN scale them. The size specs are recommendations for given situations - such as 120% for high volume retail, or 80% for .. well, less so.

  if you want to get an idea of the extremes of tolerance - have a look at the side of a cigarette packet. If they are anything like the ones we have here in Blighty, they are way less than 80% width, and have a non-proportional height.

  I ripped my head apart trying to work this out from guidelines a few months back - becoming thoroughly confused when I saw that major brands didn't necessarily follow the specs I had been led to believe were concrete.

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  • (I ended up doing mine at 80% and reduced height, as I read in the specs from GS-1 (or whatever))Nairn
  • Also, I'm referring to EAN-13 - it may well be different if you deploy a different standard in North America.Nairn

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