N4300 Series Decoded Laser Scan Engine Evaluation Kit Installation Guide ™ !
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 - Getting Started Introduction ................................................................. 1-1 Unpacking Your Device............................................... 1-1 ESD Precautions ......................................................... 1-1 Connecting the Development Engine to the PC.......... 1-1 Components ................................................................ 1-3 Chapter 2 - Operation Scanning a Bar Code ..................................................
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1 Getting Started Introduction The N4300 Evaluation Kit functions like a bar code scanner to allow feature configuration and performance evaluation. The N4300 Evaluation Kit communicates with Windows-based PC via a communication cable. The kit can be easily configured using EZConfig-Scanning. The N4300 Evaluation Kit is only intended for evaluating the scan performance of the N4300 scan engine and facilitating the integration of the engine with OEM products.
2. Connect the serial interface cable to the engine and to the matching port on the back of the computer. 3. Connect the power supply connector to the serial interface cable. Plug in the power supply. 4. Turn the terminal/computer power back on. The engine beeps. LED D4 will light on the PC board. When the kit has finished initializing the kit will beep once and LED D6 will flash once indicating the kit is ready to use.
Components Decode Board RJ45 Jack SW2 Button SW1 Button D5 LED D4 LED D6 LED N4300 Engine 1-3
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2 Operation Scanning a Bar Code 1. Press and hold SW2 button on the PC board. LED D5 will light and a laser scanning line will be emitted. 2. Align the laser line across a bar code. 3. When the kit successfully reads the bar code the kit will beep once and LED D6 will flash once. The laser will turn off. To turn the LEDs on, release SW2 button, the press and hold the button again. 4. Results are displayed in EZConfig-Scanning Scan Data window.
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3 Utilities EZConfig-Scanning Introduction EZConfig-Scanning provides a wide range of PC-based programming functions that can be performed on a engine connected to your PC's COM port. EZConfig-Scanning allows you to download upgrades to the engine's firmware, change programmed parameters, and create and print programming bar codes. Using EZConfig-Scanning, you can even save/open the programming parameters for a engine.
4. Under Tools and Utilities, click on the listing for EZConfig for Scanning. 5. Follow the security directions as prompted on the screen and click on Download. 6. When prompted, select Save, and save the file to your desktop. 7. Double click on the EZConfig-Scanning zip file. 8. Double click on the EZConfig-Scanning Setup.exe file. Select Extract All. 9. Go to the EZConfig-Scanning folder that has been created on your desktop and double click on the EZConfig-Scanning Setup.exe file. 10.
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