About This Manual - Microscan MS-820 User Manual

About the 820 Scanner
The MS-820 scanner can decode high density bar code symbols from 3 to 30 inches. Its
IP65 and heavy industrial rating makes it ideal for applications such as conveyors,
assembly lines, or embedding within machinery.
Its application code resides in an onboard flash memory chip that can be easily updated
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by downloads. A user interface program, the ESP-MP (Easy Setup Program–Multi-plat-
form), can be downloaded from our web site (www.microscan.com) and runs on
Microsoft Windows 95™, Windows 98™, Windows NT™, Windows 2000™ operating sys-
tems. Alternately, configuration commands can be sent from an embedded, menu-
driven terminal program, or directly by host serial command strings.

About This Manual

This manual provides complete information on setting up, installing, and configuring
the MS-820 scanner. The chapters are presented in the order in which a scanner
might be setup and made ready for industrial operation.
Chapter 1, "Quick Start" provides overall step-by-step instructions for getting your
scanner operational with specific "go to" references to other chapters and appendices.
The appendices include specifications, reference tables of serial commands, ASCII
characters, multidrop setup and addresses, as well as other useful information relat-
ing to bar coding and electrical and mechanical setups for the scanner.
Host Communications
There are three ways the scanner communicates with a host:
1. Microscan's Windows™ based
the preferred method which offers point-and-click ease of use and visual
responses to user adjustments.
2. Serial commands such as
also be sent from the Terminal or Utility window within ESP-MP.
3. Embedded onboard menus are accessed from a terminal window with a
command. These menus lack some of the functionality of the ESP-MP, but may be
more responsive in older, slower computers.
1. See your Microscan sales representative to access the latest application codes.
MS-820 Industrial Bar Code Scanner User's Manual
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