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MS-860 Industrial Raster Reader User’s Manual
About the MS-860 Industrial Raster Reader
Programmable firmware allows considerable control of multiple features, including 3
programmable relay outputs and new master and trigger inputs.
A user interface program,
ESP (Easy Setup Program), downloadable from our web site
(
www.microscan.com
), runs on Microsoft’s Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows
2000, or Windows XP operating systems.
Important: The MS-860 is different from the MS-850 in trigger polarity and the calcu-
lation of raster sweeps.
About This Manual
This manual provides complete information on setting up, installing, and configuring the
reader. The chapters are presented in the order in which a reader might be setup and
made ready for industrial operation. Host serial commands are presented side-by-side
with
ESP menus and wherever possible follow the order presented in ESP.
Chapter 1,
"Quick Start"
, provides overall step-by-step instructions for getting your
reader operational with specific “go to” references to other chapters and appendices.
Host Communications
There are four ways the reader can be programmed:
1. Windows-based
ESP, the preferred method, which offers point-and-click ease
of use and visual responses to user adjustments.
2. Serial commands such as
<K100,1>
can be sent from a terminal program. They
can also be sent from the
Terminal window within ESP.
Note: You can learn the current setting of any parameter by inserting a question
mark after the number, as in
<K100?>
To see all “
K
” commands, send
<K?>
.
3. Embedded menus. See
"Embedded Menus"
on page A-24.
4. Bar code symbol configuration. See
"Symbol Configuration"
on page A-18.
Highlighting
Serial commands, selections inside instructions, and menu defaults are highlighted in
rust bold
.
1
Cross-references are highlighted in
blue
. Web links and outside references are high-
lighted in
blue bold italics
.
References to menu topics are highlighted in
Bold Initial Caps. References to topic
headings within this manual or other documents are enclosed in quotation marks.
1. Colors are presented in the online PDF version found in Microscan Tools CD, 37-000001-01.
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