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Rich

I would like a Bar Code Scanner brand recommendation. We currently have some old A-B scanners that you can no longer obtain. I am looking to change these out with different brands and would like real world knowledge recommendations. ( I believe about 15% of what a salesmen recommends.) Currently, I am investigating SickOptic, Accu-Sort, and Keyence. These are Automatic Line Scanners.
 
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Crucius, Wesley

You have one other significant, and VERY GOOD choice: CiMatrix. Their
scanners are high quality and very versatile.

In my personal experience, Sick makes some of the highest quality and best
performing automation sensors available. I have never used their barcode
scanners, but their photoelectrics and their laser distance meters
outperform anything, as long as money is, relatively speaking, no object.

That said, I would have to give Accu-Sort the worst review of the bunch.
While their scanners were usually functional and they do have some
impressively small models, they often did not perform to their own rated
specifications. Also, their own tech support for their high end omni
scanners is quite unimpressive. I watched them spend months trying to get
a couple of large omni scanners working in a master slave config, and a
few weeks into the process one of the big revelations was that the
scanners were installed in the wrong orientation (direction of travel of
the loads). I will say that these techs were nice guys, and persistent
hard workers, but they sure didn't seem to get the support they needed
from engineering.

If you want to ask any specific questions, e-mail me direct.
 
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Michael Griffin

Rich wrote:
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>I would like a Bar Code Scanner brand recommendation. We currently have
>some old A-B scanners that you can no longer obtain. I am looking to
>change these out with different brands and would like real world knowledge
>recommendations. ( I believe about 15% of what a salesmen recommends.)
>Currently, I am investigating SickOptic, Accu-Sort, and Keyence. These are
>Automatic Line Scanners.
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We have a number of Accusort Model 20 line scan bar code readers,
and I would not recommend them using them again. We have lost the reader
configuration during electrical power interuptions many times. Apparently
this is a design problem with this model of reader.

Of the various bar code readers we have looked at, Sick looked the
best and we intend to use them (I think the part number was CLV 410) on our
next application.

The prices we have been quoted for the two products (Accusort and
Sick) is roughly the same.


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