About This Guide
About This Guide
Introduction
The DS6708 Digital Scanner Product Reference Guide provides general instructions for setting up, operating,
maintaining and troubleshooting the DS6708 digital scanner.
Configurations
This guide covers all operating features of the DS6708 Standard Range digital scanner.
Chapter Descriptions
Topics covered in this guide are as follows:
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Chapter 1, Getting Started provides a product overview, unpacking instructions, and cable connection
information.
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Chapter 2, Scanning describes parts of the digital scanner, beeper and LED definitions, and how to use
the digital scanner in hand-held and hands-free modes.
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Chapter 3, Maintenance & Technical Specifications provides information on how to care for the digital
scanner, troubleshooting, and technical specifications.
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Chapter 4, User Preferences & Miscellaneous Digital Scanner Options provides commonly used bar
codes to customize how data is transmitted to the host device and programming bar codes for selecting
user preference features for the digital scanner.
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Chapter 5, Decoding Preferences provides decoding preference features and the programming bar
codes for selecting these features.
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Chapter 6, USB Interface describes how to set up the digital scanner with a USB host.
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Chapter 7, RS-232 Interface describes how to set up the digital scanner with an RS-232 host, such as
point-of-sale devices, host computers, or other devices with an available RS-232 port.
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Chapter 8, IBM 468X / 469X Interface describes how to set up the digital scanner with IBM 468X/469X
POS systems.
NOTE The DS6708 premier digital decoder does not support imaging. For imaging features and
parameters, refer to the DS6707 Digital Imager Scanner Product Reference Guide,
p/n 72E-83978-xx.