Symbol LS2208 General Purpose Barcode Scanner

Symbol LS2208 General Purpose Barcode Scanner

The Symbol LS2208 is one of the most popular barcode scanners. It offers high performance scanning of 1D barcodes at an affordable price. This small, lightweight scanner will help increase productivity at the retail point of sale and in the stockroom, efficiently manage medications and control inventory in medical facilities, and track assets and inventory.

When the scanner interface is set to HID Keyboard (default) it will send data wherever the cursor is to the host. Quite often a tab or enter key is required to complete the entry. Configuring the scanner to automatically hit tab or enter speeds up the process.

Follow the steps below to add an Enter or Tab key suffix after each barcode scan.

To add an Enter key:

Step 1.

Scan the Scan Option barcode.

Scan Options Barcode

Step 2.

Scan the Data/Suffix barcode.

Data Suffix Barcode

Step 3.

Scan the Enter barcode.

Enter barcode

Watch this video to see how to add an “ENTER” key data suffix on an LS2208 barcode scanner.

To add a Tab key:

Step 1.

Scan the Scan Options barcode.

Scan Options Barcode

Step 2.

Scan the Data/Suffix barcode.

Data Suffix Barcode

Step 3.

Scan the Enter barcode.

Enter barcode

Step 4. 

Scan the Scan Suffix 1 – Tab barcode.

Scan Suffix 1 Tab barcode

Step 5.

Scan the 7 barcode.

7 barcode

Step 6.

Scan the 0 barcode.

0 barcode

Step 7.

Scan the 0 barcode.

0 barcode

Step 8.

Scan the 9 barcode.

9 barcode

Watch this video to see how to add a “TAB” key data suffix on an LS2208 barcode scanner.