IT Hardware Insights & Guides

Scanner selection in a clinical or laboratory setting usually starts with the wrong question. People ask which model is approved, or whic...

The short answer is that the Datalogic Gryphon GD4500 and the GBT4500 are the same scanner with the cable removed. Both are 2D area image...

Most barcode scanner shortlists start in the wrong place. Someone works out which symbologies they need, checks that the candidates all r...

A presentation scanner exists to remove one motion from every transaction. The operator does not reach for a scanner, aim it at the label...

Most people ordering a rugged cordless barcode scanner treat the model number as the decision. They pick the DS3678, sign off the quantit...

Extended range scanners are sold on one number, and for this one the number is 20 m. It is the first thing anyone repeats about the unit ...

There is exactly one question that decides whether this scanner is right for you, and it is not price, ruggedness or speed. It is whether...

A scanner that returns twelve digits when your system expects thirteen, or strips a character everyone assumed would be there, is not fau...

Scanner datasheets quote a working range, and buyers reasonably assume it means the scanner reads barcodes up to that distance. It does n...

A barcode scanner reads the code the same way whatever it is plugged into. What changes, and what causes most of the integration problems...

What the Zebra DS9908 is, how it differs from the DS9308, when a presentation scanner is right, and the cable omission that catches most ...

Why a scanner model number describes a family rather than a device, how optics variants differ and cannot be changed, and how to identify...