
MiniScan Sales Guide
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Programming Options
Developer’s Kit: (optional)
A new software developer’s CD is also available to develop your own applications. The Developer’s Kit
offers many user-friendly features to help customers develop their own applications around the MiniScan
product family using Windows 98, 2000, and XP platforms. The developer’s software enables users to
benefit from Symbol’s Simple Serial Interface (SSI) protocol.
The software CD contains an SSI ActiveX component that will greatly simplify most scan engine
applications. It also contains a DLL (with source) for developers that may want to customize the
functionality provided or port that functionality to another OS or platform. Best of all, it is accompanied by
working demo applications (with source), which show how to implement common tasks using the DK.
The CD includes a Simple Serial Interface Developer’s Guide to facilitate communication and rapid
development in your host device.
The Simple Serial Interface (SSI) provides a cost effective, highly integrated, flexible protocol for Original
Equipment Manufacturers that are designed for bar code scanning applications.
The SSI protocol provides a communication link (both hardware handshaking and command protocol)
between Symbol’s decoded engine s and a serial host. The specification for SSI is from the perspective
of both the decoder and the host.
123Scan allows you to customize your Symbol scanners’ setup and generate Advanced Data Formatting
(ADF) Rules*. Scanners are programmable via PC download or by scanning a sheet of bar codes
generated by the utility (not for the MS440x). Scanner programming is saved in a setup file that can be
distributed electronically (e-mail & floppy). Bar code sheets can be copied and faxed.
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