Tethered Scanners - Intermec 700 Series User Manual

Chapter 6 — Scanner Support

Tethered Scanners

For Units With PSM Builds Older than 3.00
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The Intermec Tethered Scanner feature allows Automatic Data Collection
(ADC) by accepting data from the COM1 port and wedging it into the
keyboard interface. You can enable or disable this feature from the Today
screen on the 700 Series Computer.
The following information is divided between units with PSM Builds old-
er than 3.00 (next paragraph) or units with PSM Builds 3.00 or newer
(starting on page 201).
Enabling and Disabling
On the 700 Series Computer, tap Start > Today. Tap the bar code scanner
icon in the System Tray (circled below). Initially, the bar code scanner icon
indicates that this feature is disabled (shown to the left).
S Select Comm Port Wedge to send any data, coming into the 700 Series
Computer through the COM1 port from an external input device, as
keyboard data to an application on the desktop.
For example, if you have Pocket Word running on your 700 Series
Computer desktop, information scanned with a scanner connected to
the COM1 port appears in the Word document. If another data collec-
tion application is running and is active on the 700 Series Computer,
the scanned information appears in that application.
Note: When Comm Port Wedge is selected, regardless of the data sent
by the external input device, you cannot control the device or the data
format using any of the Intermec scanner control or data transfer APIs
from the SDK or the internal Data Collection software. The external
input device is governed by what software it has onboard to tell it how
to scan, take pictures, or send the data elsewhere.
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