🧾 Description
Explanations of the different types of hand held scanners interfaces:
USB-Keyboard: some customers need the output from the scanner to be like you would type on a keyboard so this would be USB-keyboard the scanner will act as if you are typing the code into a word or text document
USB-COM: is very different. Certain customers require the data through:
- a com port or
- they need the data as serial data due to certain things in the code as well as the app its scanning into.
Since most PC no longer have a com port, we can use the USB port with a com driver and change the interface to USB-COM on the scanner. Then it will need a virtual com port (as we are not connecting to a true com port but the USB port). So, because they have installed our com driver the PC will assign the scanner a virtual com port. then the customer just needs to point the software to the new port assigned
So, all our devices are multi-interface except the lite version which will either be USB or RS232 /KBW (Key board wedge)
A keyboard wedge is an interface which allows a non-keyboard device to plug into a computer as though it were sending keyboard data. The keyboard is plugged into the wedge, which in turn is plugged into the computer, so that data may be inputted through either the keyboard or the other peripheral. So, all the multi interface units will support USB-KBD and USB-COM. only the USB lite units will support USB-Keyboard and USB-COM
RS232 is very common interface a lot of retail and manufacturing still use this interface. A lot depends on what its being connected to and what the software needs to see as data from the scanner. Some software requires a com port to work so we can only use USB-COM or standard RS232 also software needs the data from the scanner as serial data
What way do you need to see the data serial or keyboard? Then I can go from that if they are not sure you can say well do you want to see the data in notepad or a special program. if they say special program, you can then ask can you enter data by using a keyboard etc. On a cradle you will have one port for the cable which will be the interface cable. The second port depends on the scanner.