Metrologic Barcode Scanner
The scanning-technology market got a boost of user-friendliness with the emergence of the Metrologic barcode scanner series. This line of products merges sleek designs with high-performance systems, and the end result is hand-held scanners that function superbly as presentation devices.
The Metrologic barcode scanner series includes the MS9520 Voyager, an application that is appearing more and more often in supermarkets, pharmaceutical plants, health service facilities, and many other places of business. It’s not hard to see why. The scanner’s array of amenities—Bits ‘n’ Pieces data-editing utility, Flash ROM upgrades, and user-replaceable cables, to name a few—combine to make it one of the most versatile auto-triggered scanners on the market.
The Bits ‘n’ Pieces utility makes it possible for users to custom-edit the bar code data to comply with the host systems. The Flash ROM facilitates firmware upgrades. As each software update becomes available, a Windows-based program installs it into the scanner’s programs.
Another item in the Metrologic barcode scanner series, the MS9540 Voyager CG, has everything that the MS9520 Voyager has, plus a few extras, such as a CodeGate data transmission technology scanning system that operates well at all scanning applications: document processing, point-of-sale, scanning menus and/or inventories, among others.
The CodeGate system works beautifully with the MS9540’s built-in automatic-triggering scheme. You present the scanner with a bar code, run the laser line over the bar code, and press the CodeGate button to transmit the data instantly to the host system. That’s all there is to it. Note that this manufacturer has the sole proprietary rights to the CodeGate system, so feel very special if you have one of these scanners. You won’t find the likes of it anywhere else.
A third scanner is a spinoff of the MS9540. It’s the MK9540-32A38. You’ll find the same CodeGate system on this one. It’s also got an auto-trigger mode. So you again have a system that automatically detects barcodes and scans them, without any prompting on your part, as they pass under its screen. You’ll also like that unlike many older scanners, this one does not require you to align it exactly at the right angle to the barcode in order to read it.
The MK9540-32A38 gives you have the option, though, of switching it to a manual mode that requires you to press a button in order for the laser to read the data and transmit it. Another plus for this scanner: Its USB interface, which allows for hassle-free connection to your computer.
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