Specifications

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status indicator beeps twice:
your reader is ofine while
decoding symbols
status indicator blinks
magenta: your reader is
ofine
when the
reader leaves
the wireless
range, the base
station’s signal
stops being
blue
blinking blue status
indicator: wireless
connection is alive
when the buffer is full, the
reader beeps and the status
indicator becomes white
When the buffer is full, no more codes are read. The reader does not
discard the oldest read.
Base Station Con-
nection Type
How to Connect
RS-232 Connect to the COM port of the base station.
USB Connect to the COM port of the wireless reader.
Ethernet Connect to the terminal program using the IP address of the
reader. To nd out the IP address, go to the Setup Tool’s Con-
nect to Reader pane and hover your mouse over the reader. The
IP address appears.
PS/2 Keyboard or
USB Keyboard
Open the text editor or your program of choice to use keyboard
emulation. When you return to the wireless range, keyboard
emulation continues starting with the buffered data.
While you are still within the wireless range, the reader occasionally blinks blue
to indicate that the wireless connection is established.
When the reader is ofine, good reads are indicated with 2 short beeps
and the selected good read status indicator color (green by deafult).
When you leave the wireless range, you can still keep reading codes.
The reader going ofine is indicated by a long beep and the status
indicator ashes magenta.
Wireless Reader: Buffering Data (Continued)