Notice Make sure you carefully read the following information to ensure that your barcode scanner is able to perform at the level for which it is designed. All software, including firmware, furnished to the user is on a licensed basis. The right is reserved to make changes to any software or product to improve reliability, function, or design.
Safety precautions – Danger! Be sure to read the following safety precautions carefully before trying to use the barcode scanner for the first time. Keep this manual in handy place for future reference. Danger! This symbol indicates information that, if ignored or applied incorrectly, creates the danger of death or serious personal injury.
Safety precautions – Warning! Warning! This symbol indicates information that, if ignored or applied incorrectly, can create the possibility of death or serious personal injury. Disassembly and modification Never try to disassemble or modify the unit in any way. High voltage inside creates the danger of electrical shock.
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Safety precautions – Warning! Lithium-ion battery Do not put a battery in microwave ovens or pressure cookers. Doing so may cause the battery to overheat, explode or burst into flames. Do not use a battery that smells strange, is overheating, is a strange color, or is a strange shape. Doing so may cause the battery to overheat, explode or burst into flames.
Safety precautions – Caution! Caution! This symbol indicates information that, if ignored or applied incorrectly, can create the possibility of personal injury or material damage. Foreign objects Take care to ensure that metal or combustible objects are not inserted into the openings of the unit. Such objects create the danger of fire and electrical shock.
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Safety precautions – Caution (Continued) ! Cradle with RS-232 cable and adaptor Keep the power cord away from stoves and other sources of extreme heat. Heat can melt the insulation of the power cord and create the danger of fire and electrical shock. ...
Parts of the scanner Handheld unit ① Exit window ② Trigger ③ Red LED (Charging indicator) ④ Communication/Charge socket ⑤ Power button ⑥ Sound hole ⑦ Red LED (Not successful transmission); Blue LED (Power); Green LED (Setting) Cradle ① B button (Reserved); S button (Upgrade / Reset); P button (USB Emulate) ②...
Power on, power off handheld unit and charge battery Power on handheld unit: Press the power button for two seconds. (see Parts of the scanner) Power off handheld unit: Press the power button for two seconds. (see Parts of the scanner) Charge battery: 1.
Installation of cradle Note: If any of the below operation is incorrect, turn off the power immediately and check the scanner for any improper connections. Go through all steps again. With PS2 cable Plug one end of the PS2 cable to the cradle, one end to PS2 port on PC, and one end to the keyboard.
RF communication as clusters The scanner utilize 430.5 ~ 432.0MHz, 433.05 ~ 434.79MHz RF wireless communication with LR-433-WPAN wireless communication protocol. LR-433-WPAN protocol first time introduces adaptive frequency hopping technique. With this new protocol, cordless scanner is able to pick up a higher-performance RF channel from a group of channels in terms of consolidated communication.
Scanning When the scanner is scanning programming codes in this manual, ensure the scan line crosses the symbol as illustrated below to prevent scanning other (nearby) codes in its area. HR2180: RIGHT WRONG HR2280: RIGHT WRONG nlscan.com...
Programming instruction Refer to the next page, the steps of programming are: 1. Scan the SETUP bar code on the parameter setting part. 2. Enter the option mode by scanning the Option bar code. 3. To the right of the option barcode, the necessary alphanumeric inputs are listed. Scan these alphanumeric entries from the back foldout page.
Keyboard wedge for Cradle Keyboard type: As a keyboard interface, the scanner supports most of the popular PCs and IBM terminals. Keyboard layout: The scanner supports different national keyboard layouts. Clock period: According to the PS2 protocol, the clock is provided by the device, e.g. keyboard or scanner, with the period between 60us to 100us.
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Keyboard wedge for Cradle (Continued) Turkish F Turkish Q Keyboard layout French Italian Spanish Slovak 60us 70us Clock period 80us 90us 100us 200us 10ms Delay-after-compound-key 20ms 40ms 80ms Alphabetic key Numeric key Numeric keypad Alt+ keypad Power-on simulation Disable Enable Inter-character delay 10ms 20ms...
RS-232 interface for Cradle Flow control: None-The communication only uses TxD and RxD signals without any hardware or software handshaking protocol. RTS/CTS-If the scanner 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 scanner will issue an error indication.
USB interface for Cradle USB device type: When the cradle is connected to a PC with a USB cable, it will be identified as a HID keyboard. Keyboard layout: Refer to Keyboard layout of Keyboard wedge for Cradle. Host comm. port speed: Refer to Host comm. port speed of Keyboard wedge for Cradle. Numeric key: Refer to Numeric key of Keyboard wedge for Cradle.
Handheld scan & some global settings Scanning mode: Good-read off-The trigger button must be pressed once to activate scanning. The light source of scanner stops scanning when there is a successful reading or no code is decoded after the Stand-by duration elapsed.
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Handheld scan & some global settings (Continued) Decoder optimization: If it is enabled, the scanner will optimize the decoder with error correction. This function is not effective for all types of barcodes. SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Good-read off Scanning mode Momentary Alternate...
Visual and audio indication for Handheld unit Power on alert: After power-on the scanner will generate an alert signal to indicate a successful self-test. LED indication: After each successful reading, the LED above the scanner will light up to indicate a good barcode reading.
RF 433MHz communication setting for Handheld unit Handheld unit RF channel No.: The scanner offers eight different radio frequency channels for the data transmission between handheld unit and cradle. Handheld unit ID: The scanner offers 16 different handheld unit IDs. Example: to set a handheld unit to work on channel 2 with ID 15.
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RF 433MHz communication setting for Handheld unit (Continued) Enter sleeping mode interval: If it is enabled, the handheld unit will enter sleeping mode while no operation beyond the time interval defined; the handheld unit will return to normal mode by pulling the scanner trigger.
RF 433MHz communication setting for Cradle Cradle RF channel No.: The scanner offers eight different radio frequency channels for the data transmission between handheld unit and cradle. Bind the first handheld unit ID: This setting is used to bind the first handheld unit ID. By this setting, the cradle communicates with ONLY one handheld unit with the binding ID.
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RF 433MHz communication setting for Cradle (Continued) SETUP Option barcode Option Alpha. entry ¡ Cradle RF channel No. 01-08 01-08 ¡ Bind the first handheld unit ID 01-16 01-16 ¡ Join a next handheld unit ID 01-16 01-16 10dbm 7dbm 5dbm RF power level 0dbm...
UPC-A Read: Format Leading zero Data digits (11 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.
UPC-E Read: Format Leading zero 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 UPC-A.
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EAN-13 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. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A.
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 UPC-A.
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.
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 Symbology Specification (USS) and the Optical Product Code Council (OPCC).
Industrial 2 of 5 Read: Format Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) Max./Min. code length: Refer to Max./Min. code length of Code 39. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. SETUP Option bar code Option...
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.
Codabar Read: Format Start Data digits (variable) Check digit (optional) 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.
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 Code 39. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Code 39. Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A.
China Post Read: Format 11 Data digits Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Read Disable Enable Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Code ID setting 00-FF...
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...
GS1 DataBar Limited Read: Format 16 Data digits Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. Conversion: Refer to Conversion of GS1 DataBar (GS1 DataBar Truncated). SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha.
GS1 DataBar Expanded Read: Format Data characters (variable) Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. Conversion: UCC/EAN 128- Refer to Code ID transmission of String transmission, ]Cm will be identified as AIM ID. SETUP Option bar code Option...
PDF417 (HR2280 model only) This decoder is only applied with a specified firmware. The symbol size in the standard of PDF417 says, number of rows: 3 to 90, and number of columns: 1 to 30. This scanner can only decode PDF417 at rows from 3 to 40 and columns from 1 to 20. The error correction level for a PDF417 symbol is from 0 to 8.
China Finance (HR2280 model only) 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;...
China Finance (Continued) SETUP Option bar code 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 Leading character 5/6/7/8/9 Only 5 converted to A converted to A/B/C/D/E Only 6 converted to B Only 7 converted to C Only 8 converted to D...
QR Code (HR2280 model only) Read: Format Data characters (variable) Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Read Disable Enable Code ID setting 00-FF 00-FF (ASCII) <E>* Reserved nlscan.com...
Aztec (HR2280 model only) Read: Format Data characters (variable) Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Read Disable Enable Code ID setting 00-FF 00-FF (ASCII)
DataMatrix (HR2280 model only) Read: Format Data characters (variable) Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Read Disable Enable Code ID setting 00-FF 00-FF (ASCII)
HanXin Code (HR2280 model only) Read: Format Data characters (variable) Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Read Disable Enable Code ID setting 00-FF 00-FF...
G1-G6 & 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. For a Windows/DOS OS, <enter>...
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G1-G6 & FN1 substitution string setting (Continued) 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.
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 scanner 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.
String transmission Note: The information in this chapter is closely related to the chapter of String setting. Format of barcode data transmission Prefix Code name Preamble Code ID Code length Code data Code ID Postamble Suffix Preamble transmission: By setting Enable, preamble will be appended before the data transmitted. Postamble transmission: By setting Enable, postamble will be appended after the data is transmitted.
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String transmission (Continued) SETUP Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Prefix transmission Disable Enable Suffix transmission Disable Enable Code name transmission Disable Enable Preamble transmission Disable Enable Postamble transmission Disable Enable Code ID transmission Disable Proprietary ID AIM ID Code length transmission Disable Enable Case conversion...
Troubleshooting Problem Possible causes Possible solutions Nothing happens when you No power to the Check the system power. Ensure the power follow the operating scanner. supply is connected. instructions, or the scanner Incorrect cables. Use the original cables. displays erratic behavior. Connections are Check for loose cable connections.
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.
ASCII table for keyboard wedge for RS-232 Null Down Left Right PgUp PgDn Home Enter Insert Ctrl+ Delete Alt+ Notes: The 2nd and the 3rd columns above are used for keyboard wedge only. “ & ‘ < > Example: ASCII “A” = “41”. nlscan.com...
Return default parameters & version WARNING: Handheld unit default value initialization If you wish to return the handheld unit to the entire factory default settings, scan the barcode above. ¡ WARNING: Cradle default value initialization If you wish to return the cradle to the entire factory default settings (radio communication setting is not included), scan the barcode above.