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I am looking for a barcode scanner that is wireless and has a memory so that I can walk around and scan items that will be put on an inventory transfer. My budget is $500 or less. The thing I am worried about is that if I scan an item while out of range and the barcode does not exist in RMS for whatever reason, how would I figure out which item it was among the many barcodes that are in the scanner's memory.

Any scanner solution out there that might work for me? I was lookin at the Metrologic Bluetooth.

For printing, I would like to have a simple barcode printer that just prints a barcode for whatever I scan with the scanner. I don't want to deal with RMS - hate the barcode printing system. Suggestions?

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Jason
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The Metrologic scanner you are looking at is about the only thing you're going to find in your price range. There are probably similar products from other vendors that would do the same thing. You are going to be scanning directly into the Transfer request (using the Quick Scan function) - if you walk out of range, you're going to be scanning nothing...

RITE used to have a label printing utility, but I haven't seen a mention of it in a while. Other than that, the RMS wizard is about the simplest solution. Pretty much every label printer will come with printing software, but you would have to get your item information into it...

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> I am looking for a barcode scanner that is wireless and has a memory so that

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Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]

You might also consider New West Technologies or B2B Solutions...both have handheld solutions for RMS that will do this...

Regards, Todd Jensen NitroSell

Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt] wrote:

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Todd

I decided to buy two wired scanners over one wireless one, and still saved money. Unless you really need wireless, my research indicated that it just does not meet the cost-benefit test...

As for the printer, I bought a Zebra 2824, and I am extremely happy. You can feed any length of 2.25"W label in it and it auto-detects the lable length while printing. It comes with a label printing utility that allows you to prompt for the barcode (type or scan) and text, along with graphics, fixed text, date stamps, etc.

You can also simply create an appropriately sized page in any program (Word, Excel, etc) and print directly to the labels.

Since I still think the RMS label system stinks, I created my own Excel spreadsheet that downloads the current Item table from RMS and I can select an item to print any number of barcodes, labels, etc. This is super flexible and works like a charm... You could easily do this using mail merge in Word also.

I highly recommend this printer whether you are using RMS or decide to go another route... It's fast and easy.

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Jason

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