Photo: Zebra Technologies Scanner guns—the bar-code readers used in warehouses world-wide—are getting a makeover, as retailers scramble to boost productivity amid a surge in online orders.

The BL-1300 ultracompact digital bar-code reader uses noise reduction and compensation functions that overcome reading performance difficulties of conventional analog circuits. Constructed with ...

The BCL500i Bar Code Reader for packaging conveyors and pallet wrappers also constructs fragmented codes. The device does high-speed scanning, and the lens adjusts from 800 to 1,200 scans/sec ...

By Jonathan Collins Oct. 17, 2003 – Bar codes aren’t going away any time soon, so companies will need devices that can read RFID tags and scan bar codes. The market is responding. Sirit Technologies ...

Billed as the first industrial touch screen bar code reader, the iVu Bar Code Reader (BCR) reads 11 industry-standard bar codes to facilitate advanced traceability—a critical strategy for ensuring ...

Datastrip Products Inc., maker of the DS Verify2D bar code scanner, uses a type of 2-D bar code called 2D Superscript. Such bar codes, used for standard identification cards, are strips measuring ...

Area imagers have the ability to capture multiple 2-D bar code formats, signatures, and pictures. "An area image scanner takes a picture of a 2-D area and decodes what it sees," says Sorenson. The ...

Conventional bar code readers use either a laser beam for scanning or have a digital camera take a picture which is then recognized by the computer. Both methods limit the image-acquisition speed ...

Locate the bar code label of the product you are scanning. Make sure the barcode is clean and free or debris to ensure a proper reading. Swipe the scanner over the code from top to bottom.

One issue is that correcting for arbitrary chromatic abnormalities in a scanner’s lens requires a baseline color palette in the code, which eats up some of the newly-gained data capacity.