[LM_NET] HIT: Inexpensive barcode scanner

[Rena Deutsch <rdlibnyc@GMAIL.COM>]

Thanks to everyone who sent suggestions.
Here is what people sent as suggestions of companies, as well as brands to
get or avoid.
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Barcodes, Inc.  Their website is barcodeplanet.com.  They are fairly
inexpensive and easy to work with.

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Custom Sensors

http://www.csensors.com/ccd_page.html
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I don't recall who I bought it (it was some online vendor) but our Symbol
LS2208 scanner cost approx $150 and works great.  Support from Symbol (now
owned by Motorola) is absolutely exemplary.  We had some wierd barcodes and
they worked with us to program the sscanner to read them correctly.

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The best price I found was from a company called ID Recall.  Their scanner
was about half what one from Sagebrush cost, was convertible to a battery
pack for inventory, and was very reliable.  You can find them by searching
the web.

http://www.idrecall.com/

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Rena, we've always used barcodes.com. The actual name of the company is
Barcode Logics. We've purchased several Symbol barcode guns that cost
about $250 or something like that. The man who runs the business (I think
his name is Tim) has always given us a discount off the retail price, even
if we were only buying one gun. Theyve always worked with whatever we had
(we used Athena and Alexandria.)
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two people mentioned Amazon

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I got mine from a local (independent) computer supply company.  It cost a
little over $100, is programmable to read more than one symbology (which my
library has) and has a hands-free stand.  Took our tech man a while to
program it because the instructions weren't that good, but it's worked fine
for 2 years now.

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I bought mine through pcmall.com.  It cost around $130, and the tech
support folks even sent me the barcodes to set it up to function
perfectly with my automation software.  I will never buy one from
Follett again!

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Can't suggest but I can suggest you avoid the Jaguar as it drops scans
constantly.

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-- 
Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Seward Park Campus Schools
350 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 475-4148 x435
rdlibnyc@gmail.com

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