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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Q Mode is Slower than Standard Mode on a Clean Background



Microscan has released a new feature for decoding bar codes called Q Mode. $100 option now available on the Mini, Mini 3, and Velocity.

It allows the enabled reader to decode images using fewer pixels per element than standard mode with a clean background around the code.

I've seen it actually take 3 times as long to read a 10mil datamatrix code as standard mode with a clean background around the code.

I'm sure it depends on the application.

When Q Mode is enabled, a few more features are turned off: which include multisymbol, large intercharacter gap, BC412, and I 2 of 5 border bar.

Postal codes work only in Q-Mode.

Call us with questions or for a demo.

1 comment:

azmscan said...

Q-Mode is slower decoding datamatrix codes on a clean background, but faster with a noisy background. In addition, Q-Mode is much faster decoding almost all other symbol types.