Tips For Verifying The Presence Of A Bar Code - Opticon LMD 1135 User Manual

Manual No. 25-ULPNR102-01; Mar, 2005

Tips for Verifying the Presence of a Bar Code

If the scanner is operated in the "trigger enabled" mode and the trigger is activated, one of three
conditions may occur:
A bar code is scanned and decoded.
A bar code is scanned but is not decoded
(e.g., print quality was poor)
No bar code is present
In some applications, when no data is transmitted, it may be important to know why. Was there a bar
code present that could not be decoded, or was no bar code present at all?
This requirement is common in applications such as automated blood analysis equipment. Test tubes
containing blood samples from many different people are loaded into a rack for automatic analysis. The
bar code on each tube ties that sample and the results back to a specific individual. If no bar code data
is transmitted it is critical to understand the reason.
Your Opticon scanner, when operated in the Trigger Enabled mode, can be programmed to transmit an
error message indicating whether or not a bar code was present. See Section 33 of Appendix C of this
manual for details.
LMD 1135 Laser Fixed Mount Scanner
Decoded data is
transmitted
No data is transmitted
No data is transmitted
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