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Adjusting a laser barcode scanner beam width
By: Bethany - 11/7/2015
Certain laser barcode scanners from Symbol / Zebra, formerly branded Motorola Barcode Scanners, are capable of having the width of their laser beam shortened or widened to make scanning small or clustered barcodes much easier. In order to change your beam width you must be using a laser barcode scanner from Symbol/Zebra/Motorola, like the LS2208 Retail Scanner, LS4208 Rasterizing Retail Scanner, or LS3008 Light Industrial Scanner. Simply scan the barcode for the beam width that you wish to use. By default, the scanner uses full width. You can also find these barcodes in the manual that ...
What is EMV?
By: Bethany - 10/27/2015
If you have a credit or debit card, hopefully you have received a new one by now containing an EMV chip (that’s the little square box on the front of the card with lines running through it). So what is EMV? Here it is in simple terms: “EMV® is a global standard for credit and debit payment cards based on chip card technology". It’s name comes from the original companies to put it into place - Europay, MasterCard, and Visa. This newer technology is a way to lower credit card fraud by putting a super small computer chip in the card. The chip offers better data security by exchanging a lot m...
What is the difference between the Epson TM-T88V and TM-T20II printers?
By: POSGuys - 10/5/2015
We are often asked the question, "What is the difference between the TM-T88V and the TM-T20II printer?" The most obvious answer is the speed but there are some other technical differences as well. Thanks to a YouTube question by Genius Uploader we compiled a chart to show only the differences. is there any software difference between these two, or any thing the TM-88V can do that T20 cant? or is it only the speed print difference ~ Genius Uploader We preface this post by stating that the Epson TM-T20II is a great value printer but the TM-T88V is better performing. Consider h...
EMV Guide - Updating Cash Register Express
By: POSGuys - 9/28/2015
What is EMV? EMV is a new US credit card payment standard meant to make credit transactions more secure. It is not a law, it is a shift in the policies of popular credit card companies Europay, Mastercard and Visa. Why do I need to switch to EMV? If you accept credit and debit cards as payment then you should switch because if your customers use a chip enabled card and you do not process the sale with an EMV chip card reader then you may be liable for counterfeit or stolen card transactions. This applies to transactions where the card is present and as a result does not apply to online o...
Printing receipts... with a barcode printer?
By: Camille Meehan - 4/8/2015
Alex Smith wanted to know about printing on thermal paper using a thermal barcode printer. Our general answer is that you can but probably shouldn't. Below is an image of why. Barcode printers often have printheads that operate at a hotter temperature than receipt printer printheads. We suspect that is because receipt printers usually need to print faster, sometimes up to nearly 12" per second. Barcode printers typically lean towards the 5" per second speed but can go faster or slower depending on the quality of the printer. In the example above you can see that the print head g...
Battery Free Bluetooth Barcode Scanner
By: POSGuys - 2/18/2015
Honeywell just recently pre-released a new bluetooth barcode scanner the Honeywell 1020g-bf that boasts that it is battery free. While most electronics do require a power source of some sort whether that is by plugging it into the wall, using a battery, or creating energy with a crank of some sort, there does need to be electricity of some sort. In this case instead of using a battery to power the unit they are using super capacitors. To quote Honeywell: Battery-free wireless technology completely eliminates the battery, replacing it with a super-capacitor capable of achieving full-charge ...
Pairing the LI4278 Bluetooth Barcode Scanner
By: POSGuys - 1/12/2015
In this post we show how to connect the LI4278 to a mobile device. These instructions should apply to many other Motorola Bluetooth scanners as they use similar procedures to connect. About the LI4278: The LI4278 is incredibly durable as well as flexible for use in a variety of environments and situations. You'll see it used in retail situations as either a primary or secondary scanner for retail checkout and then see the exact same scanner mounted to a forklift for warehouse use. Overall a fantastic bluetooth scanner. People like to pair it directly with a tablet (windows tablet, ipad...
Barcode 101 by Datalogic
By: POSGuys - 1/8/2015
Not everyone gets excited about barcodes and barcode technology, but they really are a revolutionary way to gather and exchange information. Datalogic was the inventor of the first commercially used barcode scanner and bar code on a product. To celebrate this fact and to enlighten the public on what kinds of barcodes are out there, they created a vibrantly colored document that dives into the history of barcodes, spicing it up in such a way that makes it a bit more entertaining than your normal technical document. Download Here: Datalogic - Barcode 101 Table of Contents: Introduction .......
How do I do basic inventory management in Excel?
By: POSGuys - 1/4/2015
A frequent question we receive is how to use Excel for inventory tracking. Ask POSGuys shows one way to do that by scanning your barcodes and then applying a few Excel formulas to clean up the data. We definitely recommend this as a tool for supplementary use with other point of sale or asset tracking software.
BPA FREE Thermal Receipt Paper
By: POSGuys - 12/11/2014
BPA or Bisphenol A is a chemical used in plastic manufacturing to harden plastics. In 2008 there was information published on how it could be very harmful to people ( more info ) Where it comes in to play with point of sale is in receipt printing in particular in the paper used by thermal receipt printers. There was a concern that thermal receipt paper may use BPA in the creation of the thermal paper or in the cores that the paper is wrapped around. Because of this very real risk POSGuys.com contacted the paper manufacturer's that it uses to make sure that they did not use BPA in the creation...