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HowTo Setup Barcode Scanner

In this HowTo we focus to the Metrologic Product MS9535 Voyager with OsX using Bluetooth.

Essentials to configure the scanner

  1. Print metrologic-setup.jpg this page. It's a page with all the codes necessary to configure the scanner.

Pair the scanner

The first step to do is the pairing of the scanner with the computer host.

  1. Check that the scanner is completely charged
  2. Scan the first code on the page you printed before
  3. From the System Preferences open the Bluetooth panel
  4. Click the Set Up New Device button (in the low right of the windows), in the next window click on Continue.
  5. Select the Any Device button and click Continue
  6. The system will display all the devices it finds.
  7. Check in the options panel that the system don't ask a key for pairing.
  8. Select the VoyagerBT voice and click on Continue
    1. The name complete of the device is VoyagerBT plus the serial number of the device
  9. If all is correct the computer will pair with the scanner and present the Congratulations message. Click on Quit.
  10. In case of error repeat the procedure from the beginning.

Configure the scanner

In the default configuration, the scanner will add a CR (Carriage Return) code to all the barcodes it scans and this generate a problem in the program that read the data from the scanner. To resolve this, we need to change the default behaviour of the scanner.

  1. Pass the scanner over the 3rd barcode (the one labeled Disable CR Suffix that is printed on the configuration page printed before. The scanner will emit some beeps.
thot/scanner/metrologic.txt · Last modified: 2013/03/19 11:09 by damir