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QR codes are a type of two-dimensional bar codesthatare now appearing more and more in printed media and signage globally. The original goal for QR codes was to give businesses the ability to quickly scan a code and obtain detailed information about an item involved in manufacturing. Now QR codes are most frequently found in advertisements, giving readers a fast way to open a website for additional information about a product or service. The Lowen Sign Company provides a great example of how QR codes are changing everything. QR Code Quick Start Guide To use the QR codes, you need a camera-phone type device with Internet connectivity, and you need to install a QR reader application on that device. That’s it, done. You are now ready to scan QR codes. To scan, launch the reader application on your device and point the camera at a QR code. Typically your device will beep when the code was scanned and automatically navigate to the website the code encoded. QR Code Use Cases But why should you want or care about a QR code? One reason is to save paper. Instead of having someone complete a paper form, use a QR code to open a web form for payments or donations.That single QR code paper can be reused over and over again and does not require additional paper. Another good example application of this is for real estate yard signs. Prior to QR codes, individuals interested in a home for sale would need to open a tube or box under the sign and take a physical paper with the detailed information about the home. If the home had a large number of interested buyers, the tube would quickly run out of paper fliers. With no flyers, your options became limited and annoying. You could schedule a visit with the real estate agent, call and ask for the information to be mailed to you, peek through the windows, or give up, hoping the next house was better. Now yard sign businesses, like the Lowen Sign Company, are able to place QR codes on yard signage.Customers can then use their phone to read and open a web page with specific details about the home for sale. In this model, the “tube” of information always stays full. This is also much more usable than printing a full URL on a sign and requiring people to hand enter the address in their browser to visit the page. The web page the QR code refers to can contain a tremendous amount of specific additional information, full color photos, and even videos that are not possible or practical to provide with physical media. Lowen Sign Company is your supplier for custom feather flags, also known as sail flags, banner flags and teardrop flags. Send in your custom art work or allow one of our designers to help you create the message you are looking for. You can also choose from our large variety of message feather flags that include open house, model home, auction and more. (http://www.lowensign.com/realestatesigns/)
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