The Symbol LS2208 is one of the most popular barcode scanners. It offers high performance scanning of 1D barcodes at an affordable price. This small, lightweight scanner will help increase productivity at the retail point of sale and in the stockroom, efficiently manage medications and control inventory in medical facilities, and track assets and inventory.
When the scanner interface is set to HID Keyboard (default) it will send data wherever the cursor is to the host. Quite often a tab or enter key is required to complete the entry. Configuring the scanner to automatically hit tab or enter speeds up the process.
Follow the steps below to add an Enter or Tab key suffix after each barcode scan.
To add an Enter key:
Step 1.
Scan the Scan Option barcode.
Step 2.
Scan the Data/Suffix barcode.
Step 3.
Scan the Enter barcode.
Watch this video to see how to add an “ENTER” key data suffix on an LS2208 barcode scanner.
To add a Tab key:
Step 1.
Scan the Scan Options barcode.
Step 2.
Scan the Data/Suffix barcode.
Step 3.
Scan the Enter barcode.
Step 4.
Scan the Scan Suffix 1 – Tab barcode.
Step 5.
Scan the 7 barcode.
Step 6.
Scan the 0 barcode.
Step 7.
Scan the 0 barcode.
Step 8.
Scan the 9 barcode.
Watch this video to see how to add a “TAB” key data suffix on an LS2208 barcode scanner.