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CS6200 Series 2D Barcode Scanner User Manual Version: MD6_UM_EN_V1.1.5...
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Warning: Ensure that the optional DC adapter works at +5V, especially for the RS-232 interface cable. NOTICE: 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.
Contents Technical specifications ..........................1 Cable connector pin-outs descriptions......................2 Default setting for each barcode........................3 Dimensions ..............................4 Parts of the scanner ............................5 Introduction to installation ..........................6 Programming instruction ..........................8 Operate the scanner by receiving command via UART ................9 Interface selection............................
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PDF417 ................................. 63 MicroPDF417..............................64 QR Code................................ 65 Data Matrix..............................66 G1-G6 & FN1 substitution string setting ....................67 G1-G4 string position & Code ID position ....................71 String transmission ............................72 Test Chart..............................74 ASCII Table..............................78 Barcode representing non-printable character ..................79 Return default parameters &...
Cable connector pin-outs descriptions Cable connector interface pin-outs The pin-outs descriptions in Table 1 apply to the cable connector on the scanner and are for reference only. Table 1-2 Cable connector pin-outs descriptions RS232 Keyboard (PS2) Power (+5V) Power (+5V) Power (+5V) +3.3V ( for interface auto Ground (for interface auto...
Parts of the scanner Figure 1 ① LED ② Exit window ③ Trigger ④ Cable interface port ⑤ Release-hole of the cable ⑥ Beeper Figure 2 Remove the interface cable: 1. Find the release-hole. 2. Insert a thin wire into the hole and pull out the cable gently.
Introduction to installation 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. Installation - keyboard wedge 1. Switch off the host and unplug the keyboard connector. 2.
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Installation - USB The scanner attaches directly to a USB host, and is powered by it. No additional power supply is required. Refer to Figure 5, connect the USB interface cable to the bottom of the scanner. Plug the series A connector in the USB host, or an available port of the terminal. Windows will automatically detect the USB device.
Programming instruction Important notes: 1. During the process of programming, LED is lighting to indicate the programming correctness. LED will go off if any incorrect programming operation performed. 2. After each successful programming, LED will go off and the scanner will beep twice. 3.
Operate the scanner by receiving command via UART Note: 1- The information in this chapter is provided for the scanner with RS232 cable or USB cable. 2- If the scanner is with USB cable, the setting of USB device type must be set as “USB virtual COM”. Please refer to the chapter of “USB interface”.
Interface selection This scanner supports interfaces such as keyboard wedge, RS-232 serial wedge, and USB 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 scanner will automatically detect the keyboard wedge, RS-232 or USB interface for user.
Keyboard wedge 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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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry IBM AT, PS/2 Keyboard type Apple Mac compatibles Turkish F Turkish Q French Italian Keyboard layout Spanish Slovak Denmark Japanese German 60us 70us 80us Clock period 90us 100us 200us Delay-after-compound-key 10ms 20ms...
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 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.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry 80ms 00-99 Response delay 00-99 (100ms) 1200 2400 4800 Baud rate 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 None Parity Even 8 bits Data bit 7 bits One bit Stop bit Two bits...
USB interface USB device type: HID keyboard– By setting, the scanner is used as a USB HID keyboard emulation device. keyboard layout setting follows the setting of keyboard layout in the chapter of Keyboard wedge. USB virtual COM– By setting, the scanner is used as a USB virtual COM emulation device. A software driver is required to install on the connected PC.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Denmark Japanese German 10ms Inter-character delay 20ms 40ms 60ms Alphabetic key Numeric key Numeric keypad Alt+ keypad...
Hand-held 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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Printable character only- If this option is selected, the scanner will output the printable characters only, i.e. in ASCII from 20H to 7EH. Alphanumeric character only- If this option is selected, the scanner will output the alphanumeric characters only, i.e. “A”-“Z”, “a”-“z”, “0”-“9”. Decoder optimization: If it is enabled, the scanner will optimize the decoder with error correction.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry 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 (100ms) continue-scan mode FF (Never)
Indication 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. Beeper indication: After each successful reading, the scanner will beep to indicate a good barcode reading, and its beep tone duration is adjustable.
Decode illumination and decode aiming pattern Decode illumination mode: Enable illumination causes the scanner to turn on the illumination to aid decoding. Disable illumination to turn off illumination for the scanner during decoding. Better quality images could be obtained with illumination support. The effectiveness of the illumination decreases as the distance to the target increases.
DPM & 2D symbologies readability setting 2D symbologies read: A global setting of 2D symbologies readability. DPM format read: By setting Enable, the scanner can read 2D symbologies in DPM (Direct Park Marking) format. Some barcodes in DPM format are shown below. Decode multi-symbologies in one read: The scanner can decode multi-symbologies in one read.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Follow respective 2D symbology setting All 2D OFF All 2D ON Only PDF417 ON 2D symbologies read Only QR code ON Only Data Matrix ON Only MaxiCode ON Only Aztec Code ON Only Han Xin Code ON Disable DPM format read...
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Note: The instruction of calibrating the aimer in vertical centering direction. Scan the barcode on this page. The scanner will give three musical short beeps to indicate entering calibration mode. Press the trigger of the scanner while maintaining the distance of about 15cm between the exit window of the scanner and this paper.
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.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry None 2 digits Supplement digits 5 digits 2 or 5 digits None Truncation/Expansion Truncate leading zeros Expand to EAN-13...
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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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry 2 digits 5 digits 2 or 5 digits None Truncate leading zeros Truncation/Expansion Expand to EAN-13 Expand to UPC-A...
UPC-E1 Read: Format Leading zero “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 UPC-A.
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. EAN-13 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) 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. Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code...
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.
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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry 00-66 Insert group selection 00-66 ABCD/ABCD Start/End type abcd/abcd ABCD/TN⋆E abcd/tn⋆e Disable Start/End transmission Enable Disable Start/End character equality Enable...
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.
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.
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 Max. /Min. code length: Refer to Max./Min. code length of Code 39. The code length of China Post is Code ID setting: Refer to Code ID setting of UPC-A. Insertion group selection: Refer to Insertion group selection of UPC-A. Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code...
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). Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option...
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. Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code...
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 bar code Option Alpha. entry Only 6 converted to B Only 7 converted to C Only 8 converted to D Only 9 converted to E Disable Assigned to 0 Assigned to 5(A) Assigned to 6(B) Assigned to 7(C) Leading character assignment Assigned to 8(D)
Data Matrix Read: Format Data characters (variable) Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry Disable Read Enable...
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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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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Multiple-scan setting Single-scan setting Option bar code Option Alpha. entry <SP> A un-defined character Truncate leading G5 string setting 1-22 defined characters 01-7F <0> Once Repeat of a G5 character setting Defined times 01-22 Un-defined times (All) A un-defined character Truncate ending G6 string setting 1-22 defined characters 01-7F...
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 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 bar code Option Alpha. entry Postamble transmission Disable Enable Disable Code ID transmission Proprietary ID AIM ID Code length transmission Disable Enable Disable Case conversion Upper (data only) Lower (data only) Upper (whole string) Lower (whole string) Disable FN1 substitution transmission Keyboard wedge/USB...
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Test Chart (Continued) PDF417 12=890ab-+%xyz MicroPDF417 23+-mdo QR code 1234567890ABCD-+()&*%^@#$!XYZ Data Matrix 123890abc-+=&*%^!mdo...
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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”.
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”...
Return default parameters & others WARNING: Default value initialization If you wish to return the scanner 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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