Worth Data P11/12 user manual Using the Bar Code Slot Scanner

Using the Bar Code Slot Scanner

Depending on your application, you may wish to use a slot scanner as your bar code input device instead of or in addition to a wand. Worth Data makes a bar code slot scanner that plugs into the WDP Reader's Wand port, and is designed for reading bar codes printed on badges or ID cards. It can also be used for reading bar codes on file folders, envelopes and any other thin, flat surfaces with bar codes printed along an edge. There are two types of bar code slot scanners:

•The standard bar code slot scanner is a medium-resolution scanner using visible-red light. It also reads high-density bar codes.

•Optionally, you can specify a medium-resolution infrared-light scanner.

To read a card or other object with the bar code slot scanner, orient the card so

that its bar code faces the lighted side ofWDP the scanner. Now make a continuous

wipe motion through the slot.

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For optimum use with the slot scanner, bar codes should be printed or applied so that the center of the bar code is .5" from the edge of the card.

The Slot Scanner can be permanently mounted to a desk or wall through the

threaded mounting holes. If you have ordered only a slot scanner (you don't have a wand), you will need the WDP Card Setup Deck in addition to the Reader Setup Menu.

Providing you have Jumper 9 set to wand (the factory shipped default), you can plug a wand or a slot badge scanner into the Magstripe connector. If you wish to check the setting of the jumper, refer to page 37 for Jumper Settings.

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