On the Quadrus Mini - you can program it to ignore gaps in your circuit board that would normally give you multiple triggers- Make the time value longer than the time it takes from the leading edge to the gap in the panel. As long as the gap is seen before the trigger filter value time is up then it will keep the trigger active.
It took me a bit to figure out our cryptic information, and of course to filter out the stuff that can get you in trouble.
You can use the op,4 command. Here is how you’ll use it:
<op,4,arg> If you are loading a bitmap, just send <op,4> and the entire grayscale image will load.
Since you are concerned about time, I’ll assume you want jpeg. The easiest way to explain the format is to set arg for the full size jpeg image, with adjustable quality:
<op,4,1280x1024_qnnn.jpg>
There is only one variable: nnn is a number from 1 to 100, and it represents the image quality: 1 will upload the fastest, and will be a big grey blob. 100 will be high quality and will take a while to load.
<op,4,1280x1024_q1.jpg> = bad image, quick load time
<op,4,1280x1024_q100.jpg> = good image, long load time
Response format:
The image will load; you will need to write an application that can receive the image, split up the data, and write the file. The first portion of the data is format info, then it moves into image data, so an ASCII Terminal wont work.
The format of the data will be (_ added for readability): SOH_DATALEN_FRAMETYPE_SCHEMA_DATA_CRC
SOH = SOH character
DATALEN = the length of data to follow, 32 bit integer from ‘00000000’ to ‘FFFFFFFF’
FRAMETYPE = 1
SCHEMA = 2
DATA = image data
CRC = CRC16 check digit at the end includes SOH, and everything after (except the CRC, of course)
Courtesy - Juan Worle www.microscan.com
Prior versions can disable/enable the Unique Item Identifier (UII) but not 19 which is the current version shipping.
To fix this you have to go back to rev 18 or wait for rev 20.
Since an RSS composite code is made by combining an RSS bar code and a MicroPDF bar code, you’d think you would have to enable them both on the EZ and then under composite have it set to required.
But you actually just enable the RSS and then set composite to required and don’t enable MicroPDF at all.
For speed, put the EZ in fast linear and make sure the code is lined up. Create a 2nd IP database entry for standard mode just in case it’s not lined up.
Special firmware exists that allows you to do code matching with a daisy chained set of 820’s.
Microscan recently releases firmware version 14 for the Quadrus Mini that resolves the issues with enabling the AUX port via their ESP software. Previously, you had to send it a K command via the terminal window.
MS-820 will not match slave data. Here's a table of daisy chain
functions I made a few years ago:
Scanner Software # Match code Ordered output Output
formatting S&E Trigger
Quadrus EZ 35-676001-17 Yes No Yes No*
MS-880 35-558001-17 Yes Yes** Yes No*
MS-850 35-338501-17 No N/A N/A N/A
MS-820 35-338201-17 No N/A N/A N/A
MS-911 35-559001-22 Yes N/A N/A N/A
MS-3 Laser 35-343001-13 No N/A N/A Yes***
MS-860 35-338601-14 Yes
* When S&E are set to any value other than NULL, the S&E
triggers are sent to the slave instead of the serial trigger character.
** Code type function is not applied to slave data
***using S&E, the serial trigger character is sent to the slave.
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Firmware revisions 13 and earlier won’t let you enable the Aux port. You have you use a serial K command to enable it and then save for power on <Z>
Here’s a sample K command to enable the Aux port for half duplex <K101,2> is the command- case sensitive then <Z> to save for power on
Firmware Rev 14 is supposed to fix this issue
Zebra software puts a \& in your code when you hit Ctrl M. This may work for other symbologies but not datamatrix. The ZPL manual is very cryptic and I think incorrect. It makes no mention of using the Hex values of the control characters. The underscore character tells ZPL to start an escape sequence.
You must use the Hex value not Decimal. – Carriage Return is 0D so _0D encodes a carriage return in your datamatrix data string.
Here’ a sample string
^FO245,84^BXN,5,200,,,,_^FH^FD12345_0D^FS
