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OPERATING PROCEDURE: Connection and Handling of Peripheral Devices
3.11.3 Handling of barcode scanner and magnetic card reader
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Reading patient ID with the barcode scanner
Place the scanner window over the barcode and
press the trigger button.
When the barcode has been read successfully, the
confirmation LED of the barcode scanner lights up.
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Reading patient ID with the magnetic card
reader
Swipe the card with the magnetic card reader.
A beep sounds and the green LED of the magnetic
card reader goes out. When the card has been read
successfully, the LED lights up.
When the patient ID has been read successfully, the
device displays the ID number.
• Although a patient ID can be read before or after measurement, read it before printing the measured
results.
• If a patient ID is read with the measured data that has been printed still displayed, the device recog-
nizes the displayed data as that of a former patient, and erases it automatically.
• The latest patient ID that was read before printing will be the patient ID of the printed data and the
output data. To change the patient ID, read the correct ID again.
• When the main body and station are connected by a wireless LAN, for the initial use only, reading
data by the barcode scanner or magnetic card reader may take considerable time.
Under such conditions, it is recommended to read a sample data as soon as the device is turned on.
• When the main body and station are connected by infrared, data cannot be read by the barcode
scanner or magnetic card reader.
• Use a CODE39 barcode.
• Use a magnetic card utilizing a magnetic stripe format
compliant with ISO 7811, AAMVA, and CA DMV.
• For the patient ID, alphanumeric characters, spaces,
“_” (underscore) and “-” (hyphen) symbols can be
used.
Other symbols are not recognized by the device and
converted to “~” (tilde).
ID number
