RE: Barcodes?

["Steven Dickson" <sdickson@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [ukha_d] Barcodes?

I'd agree with Mark, having used several different makes over the years at work.  Most of them are now available with a keyboard 'wedge' that loops through a ps2 keyboard and replicates the keyboard ASCII codes etc.  These can typically be set up to only accept certain types of barcodes, prefix or suffix with special characters, tabs, or char return etc.  Laser as opposed to led driven units tend to be more aggressive and can achieve better reads on sometimes damaged barcodes.

Your biggest problem will be getting the database set up to do look ups against the barcode data to make it meaningful against a product code.

If buys second hand ensure it reads the correct bar codes or has the engineering manual with it to reprogrammed the thing.  As mentioned in other posts Intermec / symbol etc have a good pedigree, as well as some of the epos stuff out there.  However some 'older' scanners have a proprietary handshake for tills etc.  The better units can be got with 'handsfree' stands and programmed to sleep etc to avoid burning out the optics.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 November 2001 18:22
To: ukha_d
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Barcodes?

Craig,

I used barcode readers at a previous job. The ones we used (and I can't
remember then name!) basically acted as if they were a keyboard - vis -
they scanned, and then typed the numbers into whatever field would be
accepting keyboard input.
 
As such - no special drivers, and co-existed with existing (laptop)
keyboard fine.
 
Regards,
 

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Callander [mailto:craig@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 November 2001 18:11
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Barcodes?

Does anyone have experience of barcode readers for PC?

Im looking for something that will connect to serial port of a PC, and
can read barcodes on food/grocery products. The idea being that empty
cartons/tins/etc are scanned before being thrown away, and a shopping
list is automatically created for internet shopping. It could also be
used to check the items when good arrive.

Has anyone done anything similar??

Thanks

Craig

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