Opticon NFT 1125 - Manual (Page 18)

Manual No. 25-NFT1121-01
Series NFT-1121/2135 Mini CCD Fixed Position Scanners
Tips for Verifying the Presence of a Bar Code
If the scanner is operated in the “trigger enabled” mode and the trigger is activated, one of three conditions
may occur:
In some applications, when no data is transmitted, it may be important to know why. Was there a bar code
present that could not be decoded, or was no bar code present at all?
This requirement is common in applications such as automated blood analysis equipment. Test tubes containing
blood samples from many different people are loaded into a rack for automatic analysis. The bar code on each
tube ties that sample and the results back to a specific individual. If no bar code data is transmitted it is critical
to understand the reason.
Your Opticon scanner, when operated in the Trigger Enabled mode, can be programmed to transmit an error
message which indicates whether or not a bar code was present. The following table shows the message that
will be transmitted for each condition.
Page 12
A bar code is scanned and decoded Decoded data is transmitted
A bar code is scanned but is not
decoded (e.g., print quality was poor)
No data is transmitted
No bar code is present No data is transmitted
Presence/Absence of bar code Scanner Transmits
Bar code was present and correctly decoded Decoded Data
No bar code was present “?”
Bar code was present but could not be decoded “>”