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Contents About This Addendum 5 What’s New? 5 Support for the Euro Symbol 6 Modifications for Configuring Through the Network 6 Enhanced Application Support 6 VIEW246X.EXE Application 6 95XX Emulation Features 7 Using Display Modes 8 Using Accumulate Mode 8 Using Message Length Headers 9 BSD Sockets 10 Configuration Command Updates 11...
If you have an earlier version of firmware, you can download version 6.23 at no charge from the Intermec Web site at www.intermec.com. If you are using firmware version 5.1X or earlier and you are not going to upgrade to firmware version 6.23, use your Trakker Antares user’s manual and disregard this addendum.
Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum Support for the Euro Symbol Trakker Antares terminals use an English and Western European font set that supports languages such as French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. With firmware version 6.13 and later, the font set supports the Euro symbol ( The next table contains more information about the Euro symbol.
nugget To use to view the contents of your 246X’s Drive C VIEW246X.EXE 1. Download firmware version 6.20 to your PC. Make sure that the same folder as FLASHLDR.BIN 2. Make sure the 246X is turned off, and connect it to a port on your PC. 3.
Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum Using Display Modes With the EM9560.BIN display mode. In Buffered mode, new data is placed on a new line keeping blocks of data separated. In Transparent mode, new data is placed at the current cursor position, which makes screen formatting by the host easier.
Note: To set this command using bar code labels, you must also use the bar code labels in Appendix B of your user’s manual. To use these labels, you need to configure the terminal to use Code 39 in Full ASCII mode. For help, see “Code 39” in Chapter 8, “Configuration Command Reference,”...
These socket functions are supported in the Trakker Antares Programmer’s Software Kit (PSK) version 4.4 and later. You can download the latest version of the PSK from the support page on the Intermec Web site at www.intermec.com. For more information about these socket functions and using the PSK to create programs, see the Trakker Antares Application Development Tools System Manual (Part No.
Configuration Command Updates This section describes the following new and updated configuration commands: • Beep Duration • DHCP (Terminal) • Interleaved 2 of 5 Enhancements • Keypad Control • RS-232 or RS-422/485 COM2 Interface Update • Symbology Identifiers • UPC/EAN Update Beep Duration Description: Sets the length of the terminal’s audio signals.
Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum Beep Duration (continued) 2. Scan a numeric value for data from these bar codes: 3. Scan the beep tone for which you are setting the beep duration: High 4. Scan this bar code: Exit Accumulate Mode *-/* *-/*...
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DHCP (Terminal) (continued) Note: Trakker Antares terminals that use the DHCP configuration command described in these instructions should not be used in leased DHCP environments. The DHCP settings are: • Enabled (default) • Disabled If you are using a DHCP server in your Ethernet network and DHCP is enabled on the terminal, the terminal acts as a DHCP client.
Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum Interleaved 2 of 5 Enhancements Description: Interleaved 2 of 5 (I 2 of 5) is a high-density, self-checking, continuous numeric symbology. With firmware version 6.15 and later, you can now set two additional parameters.
RS-232 or RS-422/485 COM2 Interface Update Description: Defines the interface for the COM2 communications port. If you have a 2460 with an enhanced input/output board, you can use COM2 for either RS-232 or RS-422/485 communications. The RS-485 interface is only available on terminals using Multi-Drop protocol in a CrossBar network.
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Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum Symbology Identifiers (continued) Syntax: CYdata where data must be 3 to 8 digits selected from this list of parameters: Parameter 1: Parameter 2: Parameter 3: Parameter 4: Default: Parameter 1: Parameter 2: Note: To set a user-defined symbology identifier using the bar code labels in Appendix B, you need to configure the terminal to use Code 39 in Full ASCII mode.
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Symbology Identifiers (continued) Bar Codes: To set the default configuration and disable all symbology identifiers, scan this bar code: Disable All Symbology Identifiers *$+CY000* *$+CY000* To set all symbology identifiers to the ISO/IEC Standard, scan this bar code: Enable ISO/IEC Standard For All Symbology Identifiers *$+CY001* *$+CY001* To enable or disable the ISO/IEC Standard for one or more symbologies, or to set a...
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Symbology Identifiers (continued) 5. Scan a numeric value for the character string length of the user-defined symbology identifier from these bar codes: 6. Scan a value for the user-defined symbology identifier from the “Full ASCII Bar Code Chart” in Appendix B of the user’s manual. The user-defined symbology identifier should be one to four characters in length depending on the character string length value that you scanned in Step 5.
Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum Symbology Identifiers (continued) 2. Scan this bar code: Enable 4-Character User-Defined Symbology ID (UPCA) for UPC-A *$+CY1624UPCA* *$+CY1624UPCA* UPC/EAN Enhancements Description: This CE command enables or disables the decoding of Universal Product Code (UPC)/European Article Numbering (EAN) symbology.
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UPC/EAN Enhancements (continued) Sixth digit: Seventh digit: Default: 1111111 First digit: Second digit: Third digit: Fourth digit: Fifth digit: Sixth digit: Seventh digit: Scan: To disable UPC/EAN, scan this bar code: Disable UPC/EAN *$+CE0000000* *$+CE0000000* To enable UPC/EAN: 1. Scan this bar code: Enter Accumulate Mode / Enable UPC/EAN *+/$+CE* *+/$+CE*...
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Trakker Antares 246X Stationary Terminal User’s Manual Addendum UPC/EAN Enhancements (continued) 3. Scan one of these bar codes to set the second digit: Disable UPC-E Expand Zeroes 4. Scan one of these bar codes to set the third digit: Disable EAN-8 5.
nugget UPC/EAN Enhancements (continued) Note: If you discard the number system digit, one leading digit is discarded from UPC-A, UPC-E, and EAN-8, and two leading digits are discarded from EAN-13. 8. (Optional) Scan one of these bar codes to set the seventh digit: Discard Leading Zero for UPC-A Note: This option applies only when you enable UPC-A/EAN-13.
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