Pictorial Overview About Point of Sales

No More SOPA - Android Barcode Scanner

Students at the university of British Columbia founded a free android application that allows user to any product’s barcode and determine if it was made by a company that officially supports SOPA, or even a parent company or subsidiary of a SOPA supporter. This Barcode scanner application uses a public UPC database to find a product’s manufacturer, then queries a remote server to compare the manufacturer with a list of 800 firms with lobbying ties to the bill. Chris Thompson, one of the students who created No More SOPA, says he hopes the program could help solidify the widespread anger around SOPA, which aims to block access to foreign copyright-infringing websites, into well-defined boycotts of the companies who have pushed the bill, from Adidas to Xerox to Walmart to Dow Chemical. “These companies think they’ll make more money with SOPA than without it,” says 20-year old Thompson. “If they realize they’re costing themselves more consumers than they’ll gain, they’ll be less inclined to go forward with that support.”

Though No More SOPA is still being tweaked–Thompson admits it currently can’t give a definitive answer to whether about 40% of products have SOPA ties–it’s already been downloaded more than 2,000 times since it hit the Android market late last week, and Thompson says that rate is quickly accelerating. The next upgrade to the app, he says, will tell the user the exact relationship the product has to a SOPA supporting firm, and future versions will allow the user to check on a company’s stance on a wide range of issues, not just SOPA.

Point of Sales equipment Lifts the Purchase at Year End

The build-up retail stores hit the record levels of purchase due to purchase via smart phones. The reason behind this lift is due to proper use of pos equipments at their point of sales. When asked one of the large retail store, they said” the use of point of sale supplies like barcode scanners and more enabled to quickly compare prices and enable to snap the best offer”. Price comparison via smart phone has been growing fast and as a result major retailers are offering barcode scanners as a part of mobile apps.

The largest retailer Amazon has gone one step forward and allowed their smart phone customers to photograph a barcode items and enabled them to check the price against the same item. This let to lot of improvement in the sales. This seems to be a great improvement and also it would be good news for those who have made their point of sales equipped with latest point of sale technologies.

VLINE LED Barcode Scanner

VLINE LED Barcode Scanner suggests class foremost performance at an entry level cost. It is the perfect choice for those on a tight budget. The plug’n’play VLINE barcode scanner integrates with practically all point of sale systems. It has no moving parts and its lightweight ergonomic design makes the VLINE Barcode Scanner ideal for extended periods of use.

PART NUMBER: VLINE-BS1-U

PERFORMANCE
Engine: Linear Imaging
Light Source: Red LED (660nm) 60mm Array Width
Optical Sensor: 2088 pixels CCD Arrays
Processing Unit: 16 bit MCU
Depth of Field:  .00” to 4.3” @ 15.6 mil
Resolution: 4 mil
Scanning Angle: Pitch ± 60o Skew ± 60o
Scan Rate: 200 scans per second
Largest Readable Label Width: 4.7”
Ambient Light Rejection: 10000Lux/Max (Fluorescent Light)

FEATURES
Autosense Mode: Yes
Supported Symbologies: Code 39/Full ASCII, Codabar, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleave 2 of 5, Matrix 2 of 5, Code 93, Code 128, Code 32, EAN 128, MSI, EAN 8 &13, UPC-A & E, Plessey, DataBar14
Programmable Features: Code ID, Prefix Code, Postfix Code, Length Code, Barcode Type, Buzzer Frequency, ISBN/ISSN/CLSI/UK Plessey Conversion, Keyboard Layout, Inter-Character Delay, Scanning Mode, Time out, Baud Rate, Data Bit, Transmission Mode, Character Replace
Configuration: Windows® based utility

PHYSICAL
Weight: 5.1 oz with cable
Housing: ABS
Dimensions: 6.7”(L) x 2.6”(W) x 2.2(H)
Color: Black
ELECTRICAL: 5VDC ± 5%
POWER CONSUMPTION: <160 mA (Operation) <750 mA (Surge Power)

ENVIROMENTAL
Temperature: 32degree – 122degree F
Humidity: 20% – 85% non-condensing (operation)
Shock Resistance: Withstands multiple drops from 6.5’ onto a concrete surface
WARRANTY: 3 Year Limited
CERTIFICATIONS: FCC Class B, CE, C-tick, RoH

Barcode scanner types

Barcode scanners are the vital part of product scanning done at POS (Point of sale systems) stations at retail shops and restaurants.

Handheld scanners are very commonly used in checkout lines. These barcode scanners have a handle and a trigger button which when pressed will signal the LED or laser to take the reading of the item.

Pen-type Barcode Scanner - As the name goes, these barcode scanners resemble a ball pen and have a light source and a photo diode at the tip of the scanner. This method only has a LED light source and a sensor to capture its reflection. These types of scanner are widely used because they are less expensive and quite easy to maintain. The pen-type readers are available in different resolutions so as to read barcodes of different shapes and sizes.

Laser Barcode Scanner - The laser barcode scanner is similar to a pen-type barcode scanner in the manner of its working. Laser scanners obviously use laser beams as a source of light and reciprocating mirror or rotating prism for detecting the reflected light. Using laser allows reading of distant and wide bar code labels. Laser scanners are the most acceptable type of scanners as they are known for their operational efficiency.

CCD Barcode Scanner - CCD is the acronym for Charge-Coupled Device that is a semiconductor device used in this type of barcode scanner. The CCD barcode scanner consists of an array of tiny sensors placed at the tip of the scanner.

Camera-Based barcode Scanner – These barcode scanners are a recent innovation.
Sophisticated digital image processing techniques are used for decoding the barcode of came-based barcode scanner. A tiny digital camera is housed inside the scanner and this camera directly captures the image of the barcode.

Barcode scanner types

Barcode scanner types

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Barcode Scanner Technology

Most people take barcode scanners and barcode readers for granted. It is pretty rare for anyone to think about how a simple sliding of a product across the scanner counter reacts with the name tag and the price of the product appearing on the monitor by just scanning through some weird label and a code that comes along with every product we purchase.

In order to understand how the above mentioned operation works, one definitely needs to understand how barcodes are generated and how they work to identify the product itself.

Barcode is nothing but information in coded form. This coded form is what we call as the barcode and every barcode is unique and it contains details about the particular product. This information is compressed, coded and printed at the back of the product using a special coding language. The scanner on the other hand reads through the bar codes and translates it to the system giving details about the product and its price which normal humans cannot understand or decipher.

This barcode language is also quite easy to understand actually. It is a combination of specific symbols which equals a series of bar lines. These bar lines come in short, long along with varying spaces between them. Every part of the collection of bar lines denotes number of characters depending upon the date the code was actually entered into the barcode software.In general Pos software has made life quicker and comfortable.

Bar code Scanner

Barcode scanner is an efficient and accurate way of sales at your checkpoint station. This is the reason to use Barcode scanner in small businesses and for major food chains.

Many POS Software applications have barcode label printing capability. So, you can print labels from inventory items database.

Once you have applied barcode labels to all your selling items, you can ring them up by simply scanning with barcode scanner. You can able to save time and reduce errors.

 

Categories of Barcode scanners:

Attached Barcode scanner:

•  The name implies that Barcode scanners were attached to your computer via cable
• Perfectly suited for checkout counter POS stations
• Use special Y cable that allows you to share keyboard and barcode scanner on same computer

  Portable Barcode scanner:

• Portable Barcode scanners are much expensive
• It allows you to take the scanner to where the items are instead of other way around
• It consists of small computer, data storage and Barcode scanner integrated into handheld unit

Types of Barcode Scanners

Barcode scanner is an electronic device for reading printed barcodes.

Types of barcode scanners:

• Aspespos Xi3200 barcode scanners were highly successful.
• Greater performance, improved scan performance and unbeatable value.
• It’s ideal for Retail and Light Industrial applications.
• It almost sets the new standard in price versus performance.
• It was engineered with a lightning fast scan rate and an increased depth of field.
• It creates an environment to detect barcodes, even in total darkness.

• Aspespos EVO barcode (Extreme Value Oriented) scanners are perfect for use in any Point of Sale industrial environment.
• It was an ultimate low cost general purpose scanner.
• Its aggressive scan engine captures 120 images per second and it results in ultra-fast response time.
• It exceeds all other scanners in its price range.

• Aspespos new VLINE (Value Line) Barcode scanner grants greater depth of field. It offers leading performance at an entry level price.
• VLINE Barcode Scanner is the perfect choice for those on a tight budget.
• The plug and play VLINE barcode scanner integrates with practically all point of sale.
• It also contains no moving parts and its lightweight design makes VLINE Barcode Scanner ideal for complete periods of use.