Serial commands – Rockwell Automation 2755-G6-D Scanner with RS-232 Option User Manual

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Overview of Scanner

Chapter 2

2–4

Message Format Parameters

Parameters that control the format of messages
transmitted to the host include:

Prefix

Suffix

Scanner Identifier

Code Identifier

Preamble

Postamble

Message Format parameters are enabled or disabled
by scanning bar codes in Chapter 7.

Symbology Parameters

The symbology parameters enable or disable the
types of bar codes the scanner is capable of reading.
The scanner supports the following symbologies:

Code 39

UPC

Interleaved 2 of 5

EAN/JAN

Standard 2 of 5

Code 128

Codabar

Symbologies are selected based on the requirements
of the application.

You enable or disable symbologies by scanning bar
codes in Chapter 8.

The scanner also supports a set of serial commands
that can be sent from the host to configure scanner
operations and communications between the scanner
and host device.

The serial commands perform the same functions as
scanning the menus of bar code labels. Chapter 9
covers topics related to serial programming.

Serial
Commands

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