+1 for Symbol here. Have used them in factory environments and I can’t recall one ever failing.
If buying used, be sure you can get the documentation for it, as these are often configurable (eg. continuous vs. triggered scanning) via scanning special barcodes. John On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 07:20 Erling Westenvik <erling.westen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 08:47:48PM +0200, Rubén Llorente wrote: > > Anybody in the list has good (or bad) experiences with USB Barcode > > Scanners? Which models with? > > I have a working barcode scanner, Symbol Technologies LS2208, that > shows up in dmesg as: > > uhidev4 at uhub3 port 6 configuration 1 interface 0 "?Symbol > Technologies, Inc, 2002 Symbol Bar Code Scanner" rev 2.00/2.01 addr 4 > uhidev4: iclass 3/1 > ukbd1 at uhidev4: 8 variable keys, 6 key codes, country code 33 > wskbd2 at ukbd1 mux 1 > wskbd2: connecting to wsdisplay0 > > It's an old model, manufactured in 2005, and I can't say that I've used > it extensively, but it seems to work well with at least "normal" > barcodes typically found on groceries, books (ISBN), receipts and so on. > There are barcodes that it cannot read but I have not investigated the > matter. The manufacturer still exists. > > Good luck! > > Erling > >
