Code CR5200 Series: Introducing the 5210 and 5215 Barcode Scanners for Retail
The CR5000 Series is comprised of multiple barcode scanning products from Code Corporation.
Designed for fast-paced environments, the CR5000 barcode scanner reads 1D, 2D, and postal barcodes with high speed and precision.
A key benefit of Code scanners is advanced data formatting. This allows dependable data integration into any platform, system, or solution—including iOS applications.
Another popular capability is customizable driver license formatting. Users are able to target specific information to populate fields on loyalty forms, credit card applications, and more.
The current and premier product at the heart of the CR5000 Series is the new Code Reader 5200.
The CR5200 scanner consists of both the CR5210 & CR5215 models.
Launched in April of 2021, the CR5210 replaces the now End of Life (EOL) CR5020 & CR5025. The CR5215, on the other hand, allows instant age verification.
Speed at checkout is crucial for a positive shopping experience. With easy hands-free countertop operation, quick barcode reading on mobile device screens, and efficient power consumption, the CR5200 series provides unparalleled performance for POS and ID scanning workflows.
Expedite your checkout and/or administrative teams daily tasks with the Code CR5200 series. Your employees and customers will thank you for it. For detailed product information, download the CR5200 spec sheet:
[Download the Code Reader 5200 Spec Sheet]
Contact us today to take a closer look at solutions from Code and see if their latest scanners make sense for your business.
Datalogic’s Magellan 9800i Redefines Retail Checkout Scanning
Leading the way in retail checkout scanning, the Datalogic Magellan 9800i is the world’s first in-counter barcode scanner driven completely by high performance digital imaging, resulting in the ability to increase checkout performance in the world’s busiest checkout environments. Compared to traditional laser based in-counter scanner/scales, the 9800i greatly improves checkout speeds but also opens new interactions with a customer facing imager to easily scan digital coupons from smartphone screens and traditional paper/card based coupons.
Key Features
- Advanced digital imaging in all reading planes
- Seamless reading of 1D and 2D codes in all planes with good-read audio and visual confirmation for fast, uninterrupted scanning
- Optional Top Down Reader (TDR) adds large topside field-of-view as well as a customer-facing mobile device reader
- The largest ever All-Weighs scale platter enables effortless, accurate weighing of long or bulky items
- ScaleSentry Shrink Monitoring/Prevention System reduces losses from oversized items outside the weighing surface
- Low bonnet height allows for accessibility and flexibility in checkstand layout
- Top side accessible service port allows for the product to stay in the counter for most service calls (including software upgrades)
- Illumix Intelligent Illumination Technology designed for digital imaging in retail
Datalogic’s Magellan 9400i High Volume In-Counter Scannner
The Datalogic Magellan 9400i scanner is the newest member of the highly successful Magellan family. Along with the Magellan 8400 and the Magellan 9800i it provides the most complete offering of retail checkout in-counter scanners aimed at retailers with very high volume checkouts. The Magellan 9400i family offers multiple configurations including scanners and integrated scanner scales. All models also include the option of having a customer facing reader for interaction with shoppers’ smart phones by scanning digital coupons, loyalty cards, and other phone-based bar codes.
The Magellan 9400i scanner features 1D and 2D label decoding in each plane allowing cashiers to scan products without specific orientation in a more traditional form factor. Designed as a direct drop-in replacement for existing laser-based scanners, the Magellan 9400i family of scanners and scanner scales provide customers an easy, economical step into the world of digital imaging with the performance necessary for the most demanding high volume retail environments, the dependability of imaging technology and many of the advanced options and features of the higher end Magellan 9800i including ScaleSentry Shrink Monitoring/Prevention System and imaging watermark decoding.
Datalogic’s New Magellan 9800i LITE In-Counter Scanner
Datalogic has announced the availability of their newest in-counter scanner solution, the Magellan 9800i LITE. Based on the Magellan 9800i scanner platform, the new 9800i LITE scanner and scanner/scale provides the essential data collection features of the standard Magellan 9800i scanner or scanner/scale but at a lower price point. Like the standard Magellan 9800i scanner, the new ‘LITE’ option will offer industry leading 1D and 2D bar code scanning performance while supporting all current EAS and Top Down Reader options. In addition, the Magellan 9800i LITE scanner and scanner/scale uses a simpler Datalogic Clear glass platter than the standard model. Continue reading »
Jingle Bells with Barcode Scanners
Edeka, a grocery retailer from Germany, found a a very creative way to get into the holiday spirit with the use of their in-counter scanners at their checkout lanes. Scanners all have the means to produce audio feedback for positive scans which, in many models, can be customized to specific pitches or sounds. Edeka put these programmable tones to use to make all their checkout lanes into a ‘playable’ instrument. Each lane plays a specific pitch so with a little practice their reps could perform Jingle Bells by simply scanning products in the right sequence.
Datalogic Revolutionizes POS Barcode Scanning with the Magellan 9800i
Datalogic has announced their new and revolutionary Magellan 9800i retail point of sale barcode scanner. The sleek, new Magellan 9800i is the result of over 40 years of engineering innovation and sets a new standard of excellence.
Digital imaging technology quickly reads 1D and 2D bar codes while giving the Magellan 9800i a 20% increased platter area.
The optional top down reader increases the scan volume and provides a customer facing mobile device reader. Datalogic patented All-Weighs platter and ScaleSentry technology assures the accurate capture of large and bulk weighed items.
Keep Lanes Moving With Motorola’s MP6000
Motorola is bringing retail checkout scanning into the mobile age with its MP6000 multi-plane scanner/scale, an imaging-based bioptic solution developed to help customers quickly checkout at retail stores.
The MP6000 can scan traditional paper-based bar codes as well as mobile coupons and bar codes delivered on the screen of a mobile device. It offers a flexible design that can grow with a retailer’s needs and will include modules such as scale to weigh produce and expansion ports for connection to handheld scanners and electronic article surveillance (EAS) devices while providing expandability for future requirements like RFID.
To help move customers quickly through the checkout process and eliminate the challenge of trying to align the bar code, the MP6000 will provide full six-sided coverage with 100 percent imaging technology designed to offer excellent performance and better read rates than laser or hybrid bioptic scanners on damaged, poorly printed and overwrapped bar codes.
