Wasp Bar Code WWS850 manual

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    WWS800/850 Bluetooth Wireless Scanners User’s Manual WARNING This equipm ent has been test ed and found to comply wit h the limit s for a Class A digital device, pursuant t o Part 15 of FCC Rules. These lim its are desi gned to provide reasonable protection against harmful int erference in a resident ial installation. Thi s equipment generates, u[...]

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    Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................... 1 2. BASE INSTA LLATION ................................................................................ 2 2.1 P OWER U P THE B ASE S TATION .................................................................. 2 2.2 P OWER U P [...]

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    8. DATA OUTPUT FORMAT ......................................................................... 29 8.1 C HARACTER S UBSTITUTION ..................................................................... 29 8.2 P REFIX / P OSTFIX C ODE ........................................................................... 29 8.3 C ODE ID ............................[...]

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    1 1. Introduction This manual described how to operate and configure the WWS800/850 Wireless Barcode Scanner and is divided into two sections. The fi rst section describes the installation, operat ion and programm able features of the scanner. The second section contains the setup barcodes used to confi gure the scanner. • Barcode Readability: Mo[...]

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    3 2.2 Power Up the WWS800/850 When you receive your WWS800/850, the ba ttery will be packaged separately. Please insert the battery into the b ottom of the scanner and lock the battery into place by pushing up on the clip. The scanne r will beep and the LED will be light up when the device is powered on. Please remove the battery to power off the s[...]

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    5 2.4.3 DC Jack Insert the power supply to the DC Jack at bottom of the scanner. When charging, the scanner LED will flash RED. When th e battery is fully charged, around 4 hours from completely empty battery, the LED stays on solid RED. 2.5 Interface Setting Once you have “paired” the scanner and base, you need to specify the interface type to[...]

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    7 • Continuous Mode: The scanner is always scanning. • Auto Power Off Mode: The scanner will start scanning once th e switch is triggered. The scann ing continues un til a preset scanning perio d ( Scanner Time-Out Duration ) is expired. Unlike the Auto Off mode, the scanner will continue to scan and the scanning pe riod is re-counted each tim [...]

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    9 • EAN8 (with or without Addon) • EAN13 (with or without Addon) • Code 93 • Code 128 • EAN 128 • MSI • Telepen • Plessey 3.9 Negative Barcodes The scanner can be configured to read negative barcodes. Normally, barcodes are printed with the color of the bars darker than that of the spaces. But for negative barcodes, they are printed[...]

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    11 4.1.4 Capital Lock Status In order to send alphabets with correct case, the scanner needs to know the capi tal lock status of the keyboard. Incorrect settings may result in reversed case o f alphabets being tran smitted. There are 3 option s to this p arameter: On , Off , or Auto Detection . If this parameter is set to Auto Detection , th e scan[...]

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    13 the scanner is out of sign al range and data will transmitted to server when the scanner is back to the service range. The WWS800/850 can work offline and store the reading data into the internal Flash mem ory for later upl oad to the host. The stored data can be up to 128Kby tes. 4.4.1 Transmit Buffer Setting Please enable the transmit buffer b[...]

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    15 the initial (first time) connection setup, th is setting must be enabled. User can disable this setting for security reasons af ter initial connection setup is completed. 5.1.4 Update Settings After all the desired settings are complete d, the “Update” barcode must be scanned to make the new settings effective. The scanner will re-start itse[...]

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    17 6.1.2 Reset Connection Scan the “Reset Connection” when swit ch connection from one PC to another PC. The scanner will re-start itself after this barcode is read. 6.1.3 Authentication & PIN Code The 800/850 scanner can do connection authenticat ion if comm unication security is desired. Once this setting i s enabled, a user configurable [...]

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    19 6.3 Configuring Bluetooth Device Driver Please follow the procedures below to configure the B luetooth driver on the host system. Please note that, when searchi ng nearby Bl uetooth devices on Host computers, the 800/850 scanner will come out with the serial number as their device name. Please check t he serial number label on t he scanner when [...]

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    21 8. The scanner is ready to use. Please click OK button. 6.3.2 Widcomm Bluetooth Driver 1. Click icon at PC. 2. Click Find Bluetooth Devices icon at My Bluetooth Places . 22 3. Right click t he 800/850 scanner and select Pair Device . 4. Input PIN code and click OK butt on. 5. Right click 800/ 850 scanner and select Discover Available Services .[...]

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    23 6. Click PC Remote Commander icon. 7. Click Yes Button. 8. When the green arrow icon is displayed, t he connection is ready. N o 24 7. Symbology Parameters This section describes user confi gurable paramet ers that are pertaining to barcode symbologi es. 7.1 Code39 • Standard / Full ASCII Code 39 : User can choose to read either Standard Code [...]

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    25 • Checksum Transmission : This parameter specifies whether the checksum character is included in th e data being transmitted. • Code Length Qualification : Because of the weak structure of the 2 of 5 codes, a partial scan has a high probability o f decoding as a valid but shorter 2 of 5 codes (known as short scan). To prevent this ki nd of u[...]

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    27 • Checksum Verification : Three kinds of checksum calculations can be implemented into MSI code: Single Modulo 10 , Double Modulo 10 , or Modulo 11 & 10 checksum. If the checksum ch aracter is incorrect, the barcode will not be read. • Checksum Transmission : User can control th e checksum transm it ion format by confi guring this param [...]

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    29 8. Data Output Format Data read by the scanner will be pro cessed in the following sequence (RS-232, Keyboard Wedge and USB interfaces). 1) The ch aracter substitution is performed on the b arcode data. 2) The Code ID and t he Length Code are inserted at the beginning of the data as shown below. [Code ID] [Length Code] [Dat a] 3) The resulting d[...]

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    31 9. Data Editing The WWS800/850 scanner provides advanced data editing functions for data formatting. Data editing is performed accord ing to user configured editing form ats. Up to three editing formats can be configured. Data is divided into fi elds by user specified rules. These fiel ds together with user configur able additional fields consti[...]

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    33 always included in the fiel d. User though, has the option of discarding t his terminating string. • Field Length : The field divisi on can be simply specified by the fiel d length. The scanner will assign the n ext specified number of characters into th e field. 9.6 Additional Fields User can create up to five additional fiel ds for each edit[...]

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    35 10. Configuring your WWS800/850 The configuration of WWS800/850 Scanner is done by reading the setup label s contained in the Configuration Ma nual (t he second part of this m anual). This section describes the procedure of confi guri ng the scanner. Some configurat ion examples are also given in this section fo r illustration. 10.1 Enter Config[...]

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    37 used. These parame ters are: Prefix Code, Postfi x Code, Code ID, and Additional Fields of Editing Form ats. The available key type/status settin gs can be selected will be d escribed briefly. Th e configuration procedures for character string param eters are shown below. Parameter Label Key Type / Status Label Two Hexadecimal Labels "Valid[...]