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Hand Held Scanner

User’s Manual

Date : January, 2000

Version : 3.0

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Page 1: ...Hand Held Scanner User s Manual Date January 2000 Version 3 0...

Page 2: ...1 4 2 UNDERSTANDING THE OPERATING PARAMETERS 12 CHAPTER 5 WAND EMULATION 13 5 1 INSTALLATION 13 5 2 UNDERSTANDING THE OPERATING PARAMETERS 13 CHAPTER 6 SETUP 15 6 1 BAR CODE MENU SETUP 15 6 1 1 Setup...

Page 3: ...7 7 ADVANCED FEATURES 27 CHAPTER 8 PIN ASSIGNMENT AND SPECIFICATION 29 8 1 PIN ASSIGNMENTS 29 8 1 1 Keyboard Interface 29 8 1 2 RS232 Interface 29 8 1 3 Terminal Interface 31 8 1 4 Wand Emulation 32 8...

Page 4: ...ndshaking are implemented As a RS232 terminal interface systems with ANSI ASCII communication environment such as UNIX XENIX are supported The scanner is installed between a host computer and a termin...

Page 5: ...on locate a Y type cable in the package Installation procedures 1 Plug the modular RJ45 connector of the Y cable into the bottom of the scanner until you hear a click sound PC or Terminal Keyboard Fig...

Page 6: ...AT without keyboard or laptop computer The scanner has the capability to answer the keyboard inquiry made by PC to avoid Keyboard Error message when keyboard is not present This implementation is usef...

Page 7: ...scan the following label to make sure you get the right device setting USB 2 5 Understanding the Operating Parameters There are some operating parameters that can be configured to work for different...

Page 8: ...PCs the scanning performance may be compromised because of the auto tracing If the scanning performance is poor or can not scan or the scanner can not output the upper lower case characters correctly...

Page 9: ...swapping pins is necessary to achieve proper communication 2 If the host device has power output at RS232 interface port the scanner can be powered by connecting that power line to pin 9 of the scann...

Page 10: ...38400 bps Parity can be even odd space mark or none Data Bit can be 7 or 8 bit long The scanner may not support settings with Data Bit as 7 and Parity as none combination Such combination is treated...

Page 11: ...t is sent after data stream for data verification Time Out You can adjust the Time Out duration for handshaking and ACK NAK protocol to fit applications 3 3 Serial TTL This scanner supports serial TTL...

Page 12: ...le male Installation procedures 1 Power off the terminal and unplug the communication cable at terminal side 2 Install the interface cable as shown in Figure 3 The Y cable provided in Figure 3 is for...

Page 13: ...ce is 9600 baud rate none parity and 8 data bit Baud Rate can be 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 or 38400 bps Parity can be even odd space mark or none Data Bit can be 7 or 8 bit long The scanner ma...

Page 14: ...rs Code 39 Output When device number 07 is selected the scanner is set as wand emulation with Code 39 output In this configuration the scanner always outputs data with Code 39 symbology no matter what...

Page 15: ...for space white High level for space white and low level for bar black Level Duration of Minimum Width Appendix D 3 Determine the minimum time duration for bar or space either 200 us or 600 us Longer...

Page 16: ...UPC EAN and Delta Distance Code Group 10 Data Editing Group 11 Dump setup 6 1 1 Setup Procedures For most parameters proceed the following steps for the setting 1 Locate a group that contains the par...

Page 17: ...mum length setting Scan 2 and 0 to select length 20 Scan MAX LENGTH to end maximum length setting Scan Exit to end setup 6 1 3 Code ID Setting Each bar code symbology supported by the scanner has a de...

Page 18: ...stamble the scanner adds end of text characters after the input data The following is an example to set STX as preamble and ETX as postamble Scan Enter Group 3 Scan PP to start preamble setting Scan S...

Page 19: ...eliminate the definition of Label 1 do the following Scan Enter Group 3 Scan B7 Scan 1 to choose Label 1 Scan B7 to end Scan Exit to exit setup There is only total 24 characters space available for de...

Page 20: ...s batch setup labels to duplicate setting to the other scanners Dump Settings If you have settings as the following Device Type is Keybaordless Wedge Do not send the check digit of UPC A and EAN 13 De...

Page 21: ...pe defined by Device Type of the scanner The previous example of Keyboardless Wedge as Device Type is equivalent to a PC AT interface so you can not dump that settings to a system which dose not suppo...

Page 22: ...what and how to process the original data record to produce the desired output The Wedge allows multiple Formulas but the number of the Formulas can be defined depends on the memory size allocated fo...

Page 23: ...O String Enter A Formula starts with Input_ID and ends with Enter a label in programming sheet If a field is optional and missing the next one in the sequence can be entered But Enter must be the last...

Page 24: ...aracter to specify any digit or any position Wild character to specify any letter A Z a z or last position Enter To end the current formula 0 to 9 For digit input IN_ID For ID field input LEN For Leng...

Page 25: ...th and Match 7 4 1 Input ID Format IN_ID ID1 IDi Input ID is required and the original data record must correspond to Input ID of a formula in order to be processed ID1 to IDi are represented by digit...

Page 26: ...d The first is character position Pn and the second is a string Cn Character position means the number of characters counting from the first character to the one to be positioned in the data record Fo...

Page 27: ...D and output string is BarCoDe ar o and e in output string are added strings and can be defined by A Strings Note If on Programming Sheet are included in A String one interblock delay defined by Group...

Page 28: ...be Personal ID first A CR character Two interblock delay Name A CR character The Formula will be IN_ID 8 O STR 1 6 CR O STR 7 CR Enter CR is a Carriage Return character scanned from Full ASCII Chart...

Page 29: ...Example Suppose the following is a message to be modified B012345678901234 ABEL STEVE L MGR 90010129999999 in this message is start sentinel 012345678901234 is account number is a separator 6 ABEL is...

Page 30: ...VCC 5V output 3 DET 4 GND 5 Terminal Data 6 Terminal Clock 7 Power Input 5V 8 Keyboard Clock 9 Keyboard Data 10 Not Used Note DET signal is bi directional I O pin and for internal use only As keyboar...

Page 31: ...take 0V to 5V only If the scanner is used to interface with a standard RS232 port those signals should not be connected Standard RS232 Interface To support standard RS232 interface an RS232 adapter ca...

Page 32: ...Interface an Y cable is used One end of this cable is connected to the standard RS232 adapter cable shown above and the other two are for the host and terminal Host Side connector The connector for t...

Page 33: ...nt View 1 13 14 25 Pin Number Signal 2 RXD 3 TXD 4 CTS 5 RTS 6 DTR 7 GND 8 CD 20 DSR 8 1 4 Wand Emulation The pinout on modular connector at the bottom of the scanner is Pin Number Signal 1 Not Used 2...

Page 34: ...r this connector is Pin Number Signal 1 Not Used 2 Bar Code Output 3 Not Used 4 Not Used 5 Not Used 6 Not Used 7 GND 8 Not Used 9 Power Input 8 2 Specification Power Operating Voltage 5V 5 DC Temperat...

Page 35: ...PS 2 Macintosh USB IBM Terminal Keyboardless Code39 Wand Emulation Serial Interface Terminal Wedge Scanner Mode Trigger Flash UPC E Default Cut Leading Digit Send Check Digit UPC A Conversion Beep No...

Page 36: ...ck Digit EAN 13 Default Cut Leading Digit Cut Check Digit ISBN Conversion Character Delay 1 ms 20 ms Code ID No Yes UPC A Default Cut Leading Digit Cut Check Digit Supplement Code No Yes Menu Setup En...

Page 37: ...I F11 VK Cursor Right FC Cursor Up FE PgUp FG TAB FI Esc FK Right Ctrl FO Shift Make FP Ctrl Make FQ Alt Make FR Del FX F2 VB F4 VD F6 VF F8 VH F10 VJ F12 VL Cursor Left FD Cursor Down FF PgDn FH Back...

Page 38: ...VI F10 VJ F11 VK F12 VL F13 VM F14 VN F15 VO Cursor Left FD Cursor Right FC Cursor Down FF Cursor Up FE Page down FH Page up FG Ins FJ Tab FI Enter FL Esc FK Return FM Option Make VP Option Break VQ C...

Page 39: ...s F1 VA F3 VC F5 VE F7 VG F9 VI F11 VK F13 VM F15 VO F17 VQ F19 VS F21 VU F23 VW Home FA TAB FI Return FM Field FP Clear FR F2 VB F4 VD F6 VF F8 VH F10 VJ F12 VL F14 VN F16 VP F18 VR F20 VT F22 VV F24...

Page 40: ...2 IBM PS 2 MOD30 8086 25 56 70 90 08 IBM 3196 3197 09 IBM 3476 3477 10 IBM 3191 3192 3270PC 11 IBM 3486 3487 3488 13 IBM 3471 3472 3179 15 IBM 3180 17 IBM 3151 19 IBM 5550 5P 20 IBM 5550 6P 06 Keyboar...

Page 41: ...50 ms 3 100 ms 4 500 ms 5 1 seconds 6 3 seconds 7 5 seconds Intercharacter Delay 0 0 ms 1 1 ms 2 2 ms 3 5 ms 4 10 ms 5 30 ms 6 500 ms 7 100 ms MPU Idle Status 0 MPU sleep mode 1 MPU watch mode 2 MPU...

Page 42: ...sh 1 U K 6 Italian 2 Swiss 7 German 3 Swedish 8 French 4 Spanish 9 Alt Key Mode Output of Wand Emulation 0 Bar with High Space with Low 1 Bar with Low Space with High Level Duration of Mini Width 0 20...

Page 43: ...2 Mark C2 Data Bit 0 7 1 8 C3 Handshaking for serial wedge 0 Ignore 1 RTS Enable at Power up 2 RTS Enabled in Communication C4 ACK NAK for serial wedge 0 Off 1 On C5 BCC Character for serial wedge 0 O...

Page 44: ...dard 2 of 5 11 MSI Code 12 EAN128 13 Code32 Italian harmacy 14 Delta Code 15 Label Code 16 Plessey Code 17 Code 11 Special 18 China Postal code Toshiba Code D3 Scan two digits to choose a code then sc...

Page 45: ...ck3 4 Track 1 5 Track 2 6 Track 3 E3 Track 2 Account Number Only 0 No 1 Yes E4 Separator Character Scan a character from Full ASCII table Default None E5 Output Data even other selected tracks may hav...

Page 46: ...ressed 9 Not Suppressed 2 64 Min length 10 Max length 64 F2 S 2 of 5 China Postal Code Toshiba Code 0 1 Disable Enable 2 3 Fix Length On Off by first three reads 4 Check Digit CD Calculate Send 5 CD C...

Page 47: ...1 16 Min Length 1 Max Length 16 Code 93 0 1 Disable Enable 1 48 Min Length 1 Max Length 48 Code 11 Special 0 1 Disable Enable 2 3 One Two Check Digit 4 5 Check Send No Send 1 48 Min Length 1 Max Lengt...

Page 48: ...13 0 1 Disable Enable 2 3 Leading Digit Send No Send 4 5 Check Digit Send No Send 6 7 Bookland EAN Enable Disable EAN 8 0 1 Disable Enable 2 3 Leading Digit Send No Send 4 5 Check Digit Send No Send S...

Page 49: ...of 5 18 China Postal Code 7 Codabar 19 All Inputs 8 Code 128 9 Code 93 10 S 2 of 5 11 MSI Code Formula Format Input ID IN_ID ID1 IDi Length LEN MIN MAX Match MATCH P1 S1 Pi Si A String abc O String O...

Page 50: ...Page D 11 D 11 Dump Setup Strings See Section 6 3 for how to use the labels below Dump Settings Dump Settings on PC AT...

Page 51: ...rt Characters in parentheses represent Code 39 bar code printing NUL U SOH A STX B ETX C EOT D ENQ E ACK F BEL G BS H HT I LF J VT K FF L CR M SO N SI O DLE P DC1 Q DC2 R DC3 S DC4 T NAK U SYN V ETB W...

Page 52: ...Page E 2 RS D US E SP A B C F G H I J L 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Z F G H I...

Page 53: ...Page E 3 J V A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z K L M N _ O...

Page 54: ...Page E 4 W a A b B c C d D e E f F g G h H i I j J k K l L m M n N o O p P q Q r R s S t T u U v V w W x X y Y z Z P Q R S DEL T...

Page 55: ...C A UPC E 0 2 1 2 3 4 5 7 9 9 ISBN 957 630 239 0 9 7 8 9 5 7 6 3 0 2 3 9 8 0 7 2 0 0 Interleaved 2 of 5 0987654321 Code 39 W E D G E Code 39 with C D UNI T E CH E EAN 128 01 054123456789 01 659344 Cod...

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