UBI MaxiScan 3300, Installation Manual

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2. Decide what’s best for your application
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What’s best for labels
label quality
good quality, undamaged
variable quality
label printing
thermal transfer, direct
thermal, modern ink-jet fuzzy printing,
dot-matrix, . . .
label surface
matt
glossy, reflective
label location
same location different locations
label orientation
all codes same orientation
(a slight skew is good as it
prevents specular reflection)
different orientations,
excessive tilt, pitch or
skew
label size
same size different sizes
picket pass-through applications
overall barcode width
narrow
(more scans, higher
pass-through speeds)
wide
ladder pass-through applications
length of bars (barcode height)
long
(more scans, read over
whole code area)
short
contrast
black : white ratio (minimum = 25%)
high contrast low contrast
barcode density (resolution)
narrow bar width
medium density
low / high density
quiet zone
empty margin at start / end of code
at least 10 * "X" dimension
(narrow bar width) less than
10 * "X" dimension