In our daily life, with the popularity of mobile payments, barcodes are becoming more and more familiar to everyone, starting from barcodes on products, to LINE Pay, vehicle barcodes to sports centers and amusement places that use barcodes as the basis for entry and exit ... This is another usage of barcode applications outside of products. Even though everyone is using mobile phones to read barcodes, hand-held barcode scanners are still the mainstream in the market. What is the reason?

• First of all, because the barcode scanners used by enterprises and factories cannot ask employees to use their personal mobile phones.

• Secondly, the habits, methods and processes of using barcode scanners in enterprises and factories or production lines are very different from those used by ordinary individuals.

• The third reason is that enterprises and factories use different barcode types, sizes, and printed objects with barcodes. Because of the differences, barcode scanners with different resolutions or professional settings must be used to read barcodes.

• The fourth is because the scanners used in enterprises and factories are usually used for many years.   Barcode scanners are unlikely to be unusable due to changes in the operating system, unless the machines are really used for a very long time.

Therefore, it is still necessary to use a dedicated barcode scanner. But is it better to use a cheap, unknown scanner, or a barcode scanner manufactured by a large factory with a high unit price? It must be decided according to the operation form of the enterprise and the factory, and budgetary considerations. Generally speaking, cheap barcode scanners are entry-level models, that is, they have no special functions. They can be used to scan. 

Barcode scanner manufacturers with professional technology generally have their own decoding and encoding capabilities, and there is more room for improvement and capabilities in the scanner firmware, and the stability will be relatively high. 

​ Let's start with the entry-level products!