Hand Held Products Quick Check 200 Series User Manual

32. OverviewThe Quick Check® 200 Series is one of the Hand Held Products family of QuickCheck bar code quality assurance devices. The Quick Check® 200 Series is fullyportable and compatible with all major bar code symbologies. It is effectively twoinstruments in one, both an easy-to-use Pass/Fail quick tester and a powerfulmeasuring tool for detailed testing and analysis of those same symbols.Testing criteria within the Quick Check® 200 Series is based on the AmericanNational Standard X3.182-1990 “Bar Code Print Quality Guideline.” The QuickCheck family of bar code verifiers was designed specifically to fully implementthis guideline guaranteeing symbol compliance to the standard. They provide abaseline in measurement accuracy against which all verifiers, new and old,should be judged.The QC200 series determines print quality, wide to narrow ratios, print contrastand reflectance parameters, decodes and verifies character format as called forby application specifications. The quality information from the Quick Check® 200Series is presented through an easy to read liquid crystal display (LCD), lightemitting diodes (LEDs), audible tones and through its optional accessory printer.The knowledge gained using the Quick Check® 200 Series measurement modesis invaluable in educating the user about the critical optical characteristics of barcode symbols.The Quick Check® 200 Series can verify the quality of:• EAN/UPC family of symbols with or without addendum• Code 39 with or without check character• Interleaved 2 of 5 with or without check character• Codabar/USS Codabar with or without check character• Code 128 with all modes and characters displayed• MSI Code• Code 16K• IATA 2 of 5• Regular 2 of 5