About This Guide; Introduction; Configurations; Chapter Descriptions - Symbol DS6708 Product Reference Manual

About This Guide

Introduction

The DS6708 Digital Scanner Product Reference Guide provides general instructions for setting up, operating,
maintaining and troubleshooting the DS6708 digital scanner.
The DS6708 premier digital decoder does not support imaging. For imaging features and
NOTE
parameters, refer to the DS6707 Digital Imager Scanner Product Reference Guide,
p/n 72E-83978-xx.

Configurations

This guide covers all operating features of the DS6708 Standard Range digital scanner.

Chapter Descriptions

Topics covered in this guide are as follows:
• Chapter 1, Getting Started
information.
• Chapter 2, Scanning
the digital scanner in hand-held and hands-free modes.
• Chapter 3, Maintenance & Technical Specifications
scanner, troubleshooting, and technical specifications.
• Chapter 4, User Preferences & Miscellaneous Digital Scanner Options
codes to customize how data is transmitted to the host device and programming bar codes for selecting
user preference features for the digital scanner.
• Chapter 5, Decoding Preferences
codes for selecting these features.
• Chapter 6, USB Interface
Chapter 7, RS-232 Interface
•
point-of-sale devices, host computers, or other devices with an available RS-232 port.
• Chapter 8, IBM 468X / 469X Interface
POS systems.
provides a product overview, unpacking instructions, and cable connection
describes parts of the digital scanner, beeper and LED definitions, and how to use
provides decoding preference features and the programming bar
describes how to set up the digital scanner with a USB host.
describes how to set up the digital scanner with an RS-232 host, such as
describes how to set up the digital scanner with IBM 468X/469X
About This Guide
provides information on how to care for the digital
provides commonly used bar