Hand Held Products Quick Check Bar Code Verifiers 800 User Manual

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Quick Check® 600/800 Series User’s Guide 1 - 13Three beeps (one long followed by two short beeps) sound if the unit detectsreflectance readings significantly different from the previously recordedones. You may be scanning too slowly, too quickly or unevenly, or using animproper scan angle. A message appears and prompts you to begin again.Continue scanning using the recommended scanning technique until the unitis calibrated.Properly Scanning With the UnitVariations in scan rates and angles can affect bar code verification. Before youbegin collecting data, review and practice the recommended method forwhichever configuration you are using, the pen wand or the mouse wand.♦ To scan properly using a pen wand:1. Turn on the verifier and confirm that it is operational (that is, does not need tobe charged or calibrated).2. Hold the pen wand as you would a pen or pencil, placing your fingers oneach side of the foot near the tip.3. Lightly touch the scanner tip against either quiet zone (clear area) of the barcode. You have the proper scanning angle when the tip and the reflectanceguide are flat on the scan surface. (If the unit does not respond, pressPOWER.)4. At about the same speed with which you would quickly underline a sentencein this manual, and without interruption, gently drag the tip across the centerof the bar code. You do not need to press the tip on the bar code. Gentlepressure on the tip will not scratch the contacted surface.5. Listen for audible tones.• If you hear a long beep tone followed by a short tone, it signifies a goodread.• If you hear a long beep and then three short beeps, the unit detects anerror in the scanned symbol.• If one of these messages appears slowly, please!; faster,please!; or more evenly, please!; adjust your scantechnique accordingly. If a symbol consistently produces no beeping,it is either fatally out of spec or it is not one of the symbologiesprogrammed on the unit.• If you receive a message about a bad quiet zone, you may havestarted scanning too close to the first bar. Rescan the symbol, startinga little farther away from the first bar.6. Practice your scanning technique until you can successfully scan, on the firstattempt, each of the test symbols supplied with the verifier.♦ To scan properly using a mouse wand:1. Turn on the Quick Check 600/800 Verifier and confirm that it is operational(that is, does not need to be charged or calibrated).