Lights & Scan Beams
Understand your data reader's lights and scan noises
Our data readers feature various lighting schemes and scan beams to help you understand what your reader is doing.
Lights
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Solid green
Battery 100%-26% capacity
Solid yellow
Battery 25%-10% capacity
Solid red
Battery under 10% capacity
Blinking red
Battery critically low
Blinking yellow
Battery is charging
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Quick blinking blue
Discoverable - waiting for host connection
Slow blinking blue
Attempting to connect to last known device
Solid blue
Reader connected
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Blink green once
Good scan/read
Blink red once
Bad scan/read
Solid red - for as long as power button is pressed
Power button pressed
Battery 100%-26% capacity
Battery 25%-10% capacity
Battery under 10% capacity
Battery critically low
Battery is charging
Discoverable - Waiting for host connection
Attempting to connect to last known device
Reader connected
Good Scan/Read
Bad Scan/Read
Power Button Pressed
Scan beams
Scan beams differ between devices. The information below will help you know what to look for when your reader is in operation.
1D Linear Barcode Scanners
1D Imager scans 1 dimensional, linear barcodes, on paper and screen.
D700, D800, DS800, S800
S700
1D Laser Barcode Scanners
1D Laser scans 1D barcodes, great for fast scanning with angles or distance, through plastic or glass, most any lighting.
D730, S730
1D/2D Barcode Scanners
2D Imager scans 2 dimensional and 1 dimensional barcodes, scans both stacked and linear barcodes, scans on paper and screen.
D720, D820, DS820, S720, S820
D740, D745, D840, DS840, S840
D740, D745, D755
1D/2D Barcode, MRZ/OCR Scanner
Contactless Reader/Writer reads 2D/1D barcodes, passports (MRZ) and OCR-A / OCR-B / MICR E13B codes.
D760, D860, DS860, S860
