Code Studio

Design your Private Code, test that it reads reliably, and approve it for production.

A Private Code is drawn in your brand’s own design. Code Studio is where you make that design, prove it reads on real phones and scanners, and approve it before any batch uses it. GS1 codes follow the GS1 standard and can’t be restyled.

Create a design

The design editor: settings, preview and scan reliability

1. Start from a template (rings, radial bars, dot grid and others), or ask for a custom design.
2. Set the logo (SVG or PNG, at least 1024 px), the code and background colours, the layout variant, the minimum print size, the quiet zone and the print method (thermal transfer, inkjet, laser etch, offset, flexo or digital).
3. Watch Scan reliability as you go: a score out of 100 from contrast, size and damage tolerance, and an estimated decode rate on a low-end Android phone, an iPhone and a rugged scanner. One-click fixes suggest changes.

Template designs may look similar to other customers’. Encoding and keys are always unique to you.

Changes save as you go. Each saved change is a new version of the design.

Test and approve

A design can print only once it is approved, which needs, for the current version:

• reliability of 90 or more;
• a decode rate of 98% or more on every device, measured with Run scan test (12 reads per device);
• sign-off from an admin and a packaging engineer.

Submit for review asks for those sign-offs; Approve for production records yours. A version in review or approved can’t change: Duplicate as a new version makes a new draft with the same settings and the next version number, which needs its own scan test and approval. The original stays as it is, so batches keep printing it meanwhile. Version history and approvals shows each version, what changed, its reliability and who approved it.

Action	Roles
Create, edit, duplicate and submit designs	Admin, packaging engineer, brand protection
Approve for production	Admin, packaging engineer

Custom designs

Request a custom code design asks Satyakod’s design team for a design made for your brand: your company and brand files (PDF, AI, SVG, PNG or JPG, up to 50 MB each), where the code will be printed (products, packaging, print methods, smallest size, volume, environment), and your goals and timing. Its progress shows on the request: received, discovery call, concepts, print trials, handed over.

	Standard	Priority (extra fee)
Discovery call booked	within 2 days	within 2 days
Three concepts and a fixed quote	within 10 days	within 10 days
Print trials on your lines	within 3 weeks	within 3 weeks
Handover to Code Studio as a draft	about 6 weeks	about 4 weeks

The request page shows the target handover date. Designs already in production keep printing meanwhile.

Before printing, read the Private Code scanning guide.