Hi, I need a portable barcode scann

[missangie]

Hi, I need a portable barcode scanner that stores bar codes without having to bring along a pc. I think I found a good one but I was wondering if anyone here has used it or has anyother ideas.

Here is a link to the one I'm considering.

http://www.symbol.com/products/consumer_systems/consumer_cs2000.html

Thanks!

 

[DougP]

Have not used it, but it looks promising.
Keep in mind it is only keeping the UPC number in memory no descrption or anything else. DougP, MCP

 

[KornGeek]

Personally, I'm partial to the SPT series scanners (Palm OS based units). However, they do require that a program is written to collect the data, and a database or some other program on the desktop to extract and store the data. This might not be the easiest system to put togeher, but I like the flexibility and power that it provides.

 

[Kocky]

It depends on what you have to spent.
If you want some more info visit us at

http://www.zetes.com.

Also have a look at

http://www.mcl-collection.com.

 

[Databaseguy]

Symbol SPT1500 + CatScan should do the trick Tyrone Lumley
augerinn@gte.net

 

[supatech]

We have used Tracer with our SPT products. Works great!

CCNA MCP NET+ A+

 

[DTSMAN]

I have never used a type like that. It appears to be the kind you give a customer who may want to go through a store and register for wedding gifts. Then you upload to your computer for list purposes. The pocket PC's are the ones you need if inventory and counts are involved.

 

[KornGeek]

Why would you need pocket pc to capture inventory and count information? I've done that repeatedly with the SPT series units.

 

[DTSMAN]

It seem to me the guy was putting out feelers for different ideas. You suggested spt I suggested pocket pc. Here we actually use the ApexII and ApexIII. As you said he will need to write a program for them. He wasnt clear on what kind of enviroment he is inventoring. Retail, warehouse, or something of that nature. With pocket pc there are softwares available that are very flexible and if this were to be a retail\warehouse situation then he could simply load Quick Sell and have greater room for growth. More than likey if you would have suggested pocket pc I might of suggested the spts. I am not a super smart person. I was just trying to help.

 

[missangie]

Hi all, thanks so much for your help. I guess I could have been a little more specific about what we need it to do. The most important thing is that it needs to be really easy to use as the staff that will be using them are not necessarily computer literate. I don't think sending them out with a palm or pc will work. But all I need info-wise is a list of time stamped barcodes in a text file. Fortunately the system is on hold for a couple months so I still have time to work something out. I really appreciate your help!
Cheers,
Angie

 

[PeteKiwi]

Hi

I have used this product on a trial basis and found it's reading ability very good. The simple ASCII type file produced needs importing into the final application. Simple to use but no visual display can be disconcerting.

My recent search for a similar product came accross a yet smaller product, an Airclic Memory Scanner on a site

http://www.scanandgo.com

who look like a reseller. Not sure where you can purchase direct - haven't looked yet.

 

[DCDIINC]

I have the same need and decided to buy a Symbol PPT 2700 from E-Bay for $189.00. The PPT 2700 originally sold for over $1,000. The PPT 2700 is a Windows CE based hand-held with a built in barcode reader. The only drawback is that Symbol discontinued it. However, there are tons of them out there and easy to get.

With all the other projects at my restaurant I didn't have time to overcome the learning curve required to learn how to code the Windows CE platform. I decided to put out feelers here at Tek-Tips to find if anyone had some program code lying around they would send my way. What we need is quite simple to write given the required proficiency in programming. I did find someone outside of Tek-Tips who would write the program for $60. If I wanted the source code I would have to pay another $60.

Whatever you select will require either a program to be written or an interface to be configured. The time requirement for both methods would be about equal. Wither way our requirement is similar and very simple.

Hope this helped.

Sean

 

[KornGeek]

Sean,
If you found someone to do it for $60, I'd jump on that. To do even the simplest program for you, I would charge at least $500 (I bill about $100 / hour for custom work). Also, that wouldn't even get you a peek at the source code.

 

[DCDIINC]

KG,

I'm being cheep for a very good reason. Although I’m a Sr. Systems Administrator for the largest county in the US, there was a time when I wrote code in the mid 90s and earned a degree in programming. Back then us programmers wouldn’t think of charging for some code snippets that are as simple as ‘hello world’.

If it’s so simple why don’t I do it myself? Well I would but besides my county job I own a restaurant, I’m a volunteer firefighter and a father of three. And… I’ve go an employee trying to sue me for $50.000.

Sean

 

[Databaseguy]

"Sr. Systems Administrator for the largest county in the US"

San Bernardino ?

"Back then us programmers wouldn’t think of charging for some code snippets that are as simple as ‘hello world’.

Private Sub YourSub()
msgbox "Hello World"
End Sub



I'm in Wildomar (North of Temecula). $60.00 is cheap, but put together a spec and put it out for bid.

 

[wingtips]

try

http://www.pennyscan.com

I recently added support for these to our software. They're portable, easy to use and writing software to support them is simple - their example code will write the scans out to text file!

 

[missangie]

Thanks for the info! This potential system has been on hold for a bit but now that it's back on I cant get Symbol or Pennyscan to contact me with pricing info. Does anyone know where I can purchase some of these? Thanks in advance!
Angie

 

[Paul7905]

Well Angie,

To give you some background; my initial task was as simple as yours, initially, however, you might find it growing in complexity over time...... I certainly did.

Fortunately, initially, I chose the symbol spt1700 palm based hand held unit to start with, picked it up new-in-box on ebay for 158 dollars (these units are ruggedized for windblown rain and dust and they have the most wonderful scanner built into them). We now have 5 of these units and the tasks that they perform have grown exponentially once the users got them in their hands and their requirements exploded.

I have been able to keep up with them using Satellite Forms as a gui program development base, I also wrote a microsoft access 2000 application which hotsyncs directly to the device for downloading and uploading files and have also picked up several symbol hotsync cradles on ebay with the modems built into them so the users can hotsync remotely over the phone lines.......

If your "project" is simple and your certain it won't creep requirements-wise on you over time, the handheld computer device isn't the way to go..... but if you see it becoming more complex and you have the fortitude to tackle the programming or can find someone to farm that out to, i strongly suggest the handheld computer.

I would personally steer away from the symbol ppt 2700, it has the worst screen on it i have ever encountered, I can barely read the text on the screen even with my most sophisticated pair of reading glasses on. Also, I have found ad-ins for the palm based units are in abundance (this probably isn't as true with the CE based units as they have not been around as long).

Paul

 

[DougP]

Buy them on EBay
for less than $250.00
you have to keep watching though they come and go for wildly varying prices. One there now in a yellow case for $299.00.


DougP, MCP

 

[DougP]

Paul7905, a couple of question about Satelite forms

1. Can you have a loopup table as one of the fields.
So a user could pick from multiple opions.
Like Location would have a drop down box that they could pick Front, Back, East, etc. etc. ??

2. You are using Access to send data to it right?
How does this work, you dock it, and the Palm desktop software uploads a file ???
Or??

DougP, MCP