User's Manual

CHAPTER FOUR – DATA CAPTURE

• UCC/EAN-128

• ISBT 128

• Codabar

• Code 1

• Code 39

• Trioptic Code 39

• Code 93

• Interleaved 2 of 5

• Discrete 2 of 5

• MSI

• RSS-14

• RSS-Limited

• RSS-Expanded

Mainly the thinnest bar and space width that is

used to print the bar code determines the read range.

However, there are other factors that may have an

influence on the read range such as how well the

dimensions of a printed bar code are in compliance with the printing tolerances

according to the specification of that particular bar code type.

Typically the ‘size’ of the printed bar code is expressed as the width of its

narrow elements (both bars and spaces). The width is measured in mils –

thousandths of an inch. (For example, 40 mils in inches are 0.04, in millimeters it is

1.01.) The bar code scanner on the PL3000 is capable of reading all the supported

barcode types of any mils from the shortest distance of 5cm, approximately.

The longest read distance varies according to the size of a bar code. The

distance ranges from 14cm with the 4-mil bar codes to 80cm with the 20-mil

and greater bar codes.

2-D Symbology Reader

The imager supports the width-modulated linear symbologies, the hight-

modulated linear symbologies, the 2-D stacked symbologies, the 2-D matrix

symbologies, and the composite symbologies as follows:

Width-Modulated Linear Symbologies

• Codabar

• Code 11

• Code 128

• Code 39

• Code 93 & 93i

• Coupon Code

• EAN 8

• EAN 13

Read range of

Laser Scanner