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Notice Ensure that the optional DC adapter works at + 5 VDC, especially for the RS-232 interface cable. 1. All software, including firmware, furnished to the user is on a licensed basis. 2. The right is reserved to make changes to any software or product to improve reliability, function, or design.
2-2 Introduction to installation Note: If any of the below operation is incorrect, turn off the power immediately and check the platform for any improper connections. Go through all steps again. 2-2-1 Installation - RS-232 1) Connect the RS-232 interface cable to the bottom of the platform. 2) Connect the other end of the interface cable to the serial port on the host.
2-2-2 Installation – PS/2 The platform attaches directly to a USB host, and is powered by it. No additional power supply is required. Connect the USB interface cable to the bottom of the platform. Plug the series connector in the USB host, or an available port of the terminal. Windows will automatically detect the USB device.
3 Parameter programming 3-1 Example 1: Single-parameter setting by scanning 1D barcodes Important notes: 1) After each successful programming, the platform will beep twice. 2) Throughout the programming barcode menus, the factory default settings are indicated with asterisks (*). Two programming modes have been provided as bellows: ❶...
3-2 Example 2: Multiple-parameter setting by scanning a QR code barcode User can customize a QR code barcode to set multiple parameters. The platform can set multiple parameters by scanning this single QR code barcode. 1. The data format of the QR code barcode is as following. Note that: <Option barcode index>...
3-3 Operate the platform by receiving command via UART Note: 1- The information in this chapter is provided for the platform with RS232 cable or USB cable. 2- If the platform is with USB cable, the setting of USB device type must be set as “USB virtual COM”. Please refer to 3-7 USB interface.
3-4 Interface selection This platform supports interfaces such as RS-232 serial wedge, USB interface, and PS/2 interface. In most of the cases, simply selecting an appropriate cable provided by the manufacturer will work for a specific interface. Interface selection: Auto detection- By setting this function, the platform will automatically detect the RS-232 interface or USB interface or PS/2 interface for user.
3-5 PS/2 interface Keyboard type: As a keyboard interface, the platform supports most of the popular PCs and IBM terminals. Keyboard layout: The platform supports different national keyboard layouts. Clock period: According to the PS2 protocol, the clock is provided by the device, e.g. keyboard or platform, with the period between 60us to 100us.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry IBM AT, PS/2 Keyboard type Apple Mac compatibles Turkish F Turkish Q French Italian Spanish Keyboard layout Slovak Denmark Japanese German Belgian Russian Czech Character encoding system Refer to 3-8 Scan mode & some global settings.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry 200 us 0 ms 10 ms Delay-after-compound-key 20 ms 40 ms 80 ms Alphabetic key Numeric key Numeric keypad Alt+ keypad Disable Power-on simulation Enable 0 ms 5 ms 10 ms Inter-character delay 20 ms 40 ms...
3-6 RS-232 interface Flow control: None-The communication only uses TxD and RxD signals without any hardware or software handshaking protocol. RTS/CTS- If the platform wants to send the barcode data to host computer, it will issue the RTS signal first, wait for the CTS signal from the host computer, and then perform the normal data communication. If there is no replied CTS signal from the host computer after the timeout duration, the platform will issue an error indication.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry 00-99 Response delay 00-99 (100 ms) 1200 2400 4800 Baud rate 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 None Parity bit Even 8 bits Data bit 7 bits 1 bit Stop bit 2 bits...
3-7 USB interface USB device type: HID keyboard– By setting, the platform is used as a USB HID keyboard emulation device. USB virtual COM– By setting, the platform emulates a regular RS232-based COM port. If a Microsoft Windows PC is connected to the platform, a driver is required to install on the connected PC. The driver will use the next available COM Port number.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry Italian Spanish Slovak Denmark Japanese German Belgian Russian Czech Character encoding system Refer to 3-8 Scan mode & some global settings. 0 ms 5 ms 10 ms Inter-character delay 20 ms 40 ms 60 ms Alphabetic key...
3-8 Scan mode & some global settings Scan mode: Good-read off-The trigger button must be pressed once to activate scanning. The light source of platform stops scanning when there is a successful reading or no code is decoded after the Stand-by duration elapsed.
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Notes: 1. Please set the max./min. length for individual barcode in later sections, if special demand is requested. 2. The number of check digits is included in max./min. code length. 3. These two settings have no effect on the symbols with fixed-length, e.g. UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8 and China Post.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry 1 minute 1.5 minutes 2 minutes 5 minutes 7 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes 45 minutes 1 hour 00-FF Same barcode delay time for 1D symbol 00-FF (50 ms) 00-FF Same barcode delay time for...
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry 1D symbol 00-66 Global G1-G6 string selection 00-66 Disable Element amendment Enable None Character output restraint Printable character only Alphanumeric character only Disable Decoder optimization Enable Data output delay in 00-FF 00-99 (100 ms) continue-scan mode FF (Never)
3-9 Indication Power on alert: After power-on the platform will generate an alert signal to indicate a successful self-test. Speaker indication: After each successful reading, the platform will beep to indicate a good barcode reading. Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha.
3-10 Decode illumination Decode illumination mode: Enable illumination causes the platform to turn on the illumination to aid decoding. Disable illumination to turn off illumination for the platform during decoding. Better quality images could be obtained with illumination support. The effectiveness of the illumination decreases as the distance to the target increases.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. Entry Always Off Always On Decode illumination Flashing Always-On when reading Disable decode illumination Level of decode illumination Middle High Always off Illumination mode of Enable illumination in low Auto-detection light conditions Always on...
3-11 Other settings 1D symbols read: A global setting of 1D symbols readability. 2D symbols read: A global setting of 2D symbols readability. Vertical centering read: By setting Enable, the platform reads only the barcode centered by the aimer in vertical direction.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry Follow respective 1D 1D symbols read symbol setting All 1D OFF Follow respective 2D symbol setting All 2D OFF All 2D ON Only PDF417 ON 2D symbols read Only QR code ON Only Data Matrix ON Only MaxiCode ON Only Aztec Code ON...
3-12 UPC-A Read: Format System character Data digits (10 digits) Check digit Check digit verification: The check digit is optional. Check digit trans.: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Code ID setting: Code ID is a one-or-two-character string used to represent the symbol upon a succeeding reading.
3-13 UPC-E Read: Format System character “0” Data digits (6 digits) Check digits Check digit verification: The check digit is optional and made as the sum of the numerical value of the data digits. Check digit trans.: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A.
3-14 UPC-E1 Read: Format System character “1” Following 5 data digits Check digits Check digit verification: The check digit is optional and made as the sum of the numerical value of the data digits. Check digit trans.: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A.
3-15 EAN-13 (ISBN/ISSN) Read: Format Data digits (12 digits) Check digit Check digit verification: The check digit is optional and made as the sum of the numerical value of the data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. EAN-13 code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A.
3-16 EAN-8 Read: Format Data digits (7 digits) Check digit Check digit verification: The check digit is optional and made as the sum of the numerical value of the data digits. Check digit trans.: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A.
3-17 Code 39 (Code 32, Trioptic Code 39) Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is optional and made as the sum module 43 of the numerical value of the data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max./Min.
3-18 Interleaved 2 of 5 Read: Format Data digits (Variable) Check digit (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 10 of the numerical values of all data digits. There are two optional check digit algorithms: the specified Uniform Symbol Specification (USS) and the Optical Product Code Council (OPCC).
3-19 Industrial 2 of 5 Read: Format Data digits (variable) Max./Min. code length: Refer to Max./Min. code length of 3-17 Code Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of 3-12 UPC-A.
3-20 Matrix 2 of 5 Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 10 of the numerical values of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max./Min.
3-21 Codabar Read: Format Start character Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) End character Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 16 of the numerical values of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max./Min.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry 00-FF Code ID setting 00-FF (ASCII) <N>* 00-66 Insert group selection 00-66 ABCD/ABCD abcd/abcd Start/End character type ABCD/TN*E abcd/tn*e Disable Start/End character transmission Enable Disable Start/End character equality Enable...
3-22 Code 128 Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 103 of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max./Min. code length: Refer to Max./Min. code length of 3-17 Code Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12...
3-23 UCC/EAN 128 Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 103 of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max. /Min. code length: Refer to Max./Min. code length of 3-17 Code Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12...
3-24 ISBT 128 Read: Format “=” or “&” Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 103 of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max./Min.
3-25 Code 93 Read: Format Data digits (variable) 2 check digits (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is made as the sum module 47 of the numerical values of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted. Max./Min.
3-26 Code 11 Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit 1 (optional ) Check digit 2 (optional) Check digit verification: The check digit is presented as the sum module 11 of all data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit 1 and check digit 2 will be transmitted upon your selected check digit verification method.
3-27 MSI/Plessey Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit 1 (optional) Check digit 2 (optional) Check digit verification: The MSI/Plessey has one or two optional check digits. There are three methods of verifying check digits, i.e. Mod10, Mod10/10 and Mod 11/10. The check digit 1 and check digit 2 will be calculated as the sum module 10 or 11 of the data digits.
3-28 UK/Plessey Read: Format Data digits (variable) 2 check digits (optional) Check digit verification: The UK/Plessey has one or two optional check digits. The check digit 1 and check digit 2 will be calculated as the sum module 10 or 11 of the data digits. Check digit transmission: By setting Enable, check digit will be transmitted.
3-29 China Post Read: Format 11 Data digits Max. /Min. code length: Refer to Max./Min. code length of 3-17 Code 39. The code length of China Post is 11. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of 3-12 UPC-A.
3-30 GS1 DataBar (GS1 DataBar Truncated) GS1 DataBar Truncated is structured and encoded the same as the standard GS1 DataBar format, except its height is reduced to a 13 modules minimum; while GS1 DataBar should have a height greater than or equal to 33 modules. Read: Format 16 Data digits...
3-31 GS1 DataBar Limited Read: Format 16 Data digits Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of 3-12 UPC-A. Conversion: Refer to Conversion of 3-29 GS1 DataBar (GS1 DataBar Truncated).
3-32 GS1 DataBar Expanded Read: Format Data characters (variable) Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of 3-12 UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of 3-12 UPC-A. Conversion: UCC/EAN 128- Refer to Code ID transmission of 3-42 String transmission, ]Cm will be identified as AIM ID.
3-33 China Finance Note: This type of barcode is not Omni-directionally decodable. The encodable character set includes numeric 0 to 9. Among the symbol of 0 to 9, 0 and 2, 4 and 9, 5 and 8, 6 and 7, have the symmetrical pattern;...
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry Read Disable Enable Max. code length 00-99 00-99 Min. code length 00-99 00-99 Check digit verification Disable Reserved Disable Enable Only 5 converted to A Leading character 5/6/7/8/9 converted to A/B/C/D/E Only 6 converted to B Only 7 converted to C Only 8 converted to D...
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry Assigned to 1 Assigned to 2 Assigned to 3 Assigned to 4 Code ID setting 00-FF 00-FF (ASCII) <Y>* Insert group selection 00-66 00-66...
3-40 G1-G6 & C1-C3 & FN1 substitution string setting Format of barcode data transmission: Prefix Code name Preamble Code ID Code length Code data Code ID Postamble Suffix Suffix string setting: The <ENTER > key is represented in different ASCII when it is applied by different OS.
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Testing barcode: FN1 substitution string setting: The FN1 character (0x1D) in an UCC/EAN128 barcode, or a Code 128 barcode, or a GS1 DataBar barcode can be substituted with a defined string. Truncate leading G5 string setting: By setting, a defined leading character or string can be truncated. Also a single character can be un-defined.
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Testing barcode: Multiple characters C3 replacement: By setting, a number of defined characters in the data string can be replaced by other defined characters. The maximum number of characters to replace is 11. Example: Replace all the “A” character in a data string with “B” character; replace “C” with “D”; replace “E”...
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. Entry Defined times 01-22 Un-defined times (All) A un-defined character Truncate ending G6 string setting 1-22 defined characters 01-7F <0> Once Repeat of a G6 character setting Defined times 01-22 Un-defined times (All) 0000* Single character C1 replacement <0000>...
3-41 G1-G4 string position & Code ID position Format of barcode data transmission: Prefix Code name Preamble Code ID Code length Code data Code ID Postamble Suffix Insert G1/G2/G3/G4 string position: The platform offers 4 positions to insert strings among the symbol. In case of the insertion position is greater than the length of the symbol, the insertion of string is not effective.
3-42 String transmission Note: The information in this chapter is closely related to String setting. Format of barcode data transmission: Prefix Code name Preamble Code ID Code length Code data Code ID Postamble Suffix Prefix transmission: By setting Enable, prefix will be appended before the data transmitted. Suffix transmission: By setting Enable, suffix will be appended after the data is transmitted.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option barcode Option Alpha. entry RS-232 Keyboard wedge /USB/RS-232 All-non-printable-character string Disable transmission with string setting Enable Transmit the first N data characters only 01-99 Transmit the last N data characters only 01-99...
4 Other settings 4-1 General settings Function Description Setting After a successful decoding, the Enable voice broadcast platform will broadcast voice. After a successful decoding, the Disable voice broadcast platform will not broadcast voice. After a successful decoding, the Type A of voice platform will broadcast type A of voice.
5 Maintenance Cleaning the exit window is the only maintenance required. A dirty window may affect scanning accuracy. Do not allow any abrasive material to touch the window. Remove any dirt particles with a damp cloth. Wipe the window using a tissue moistened with water. Do not spray water or other cleaning liquids directly into the window.
6 ASCII Table for keyboard wedge for RS-232 Null Down Left Right PgUp PgDn Home Enter Insert Ctrl+ Delete Alt+ Note: The 2nd and the 3rd columns above are used for keyboard wedge only. “ & ‘ < > Example: ASCII “A” = “41”.
7 Barcode representing non-printable character Notes to make the following barcode: 1. According to different barcode printing software, the method of printing following barcode is different. 2. If using CODESOFT software, firstly read the information through “Help→Index→Code128→Special input syntax”. Also refer to ASCII table. For example, if we wish to make “F1” barcode, select “Code128”, then select “CODE A”...
9 Return default parameters & firmware version list Default value initialization If you wish to return the platform to all the factory default settings, scan the barcode above. Firmware version list If you wish to display the firmware version, scan the barcode above.
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