Zebra Scanner Usb To Serial Driver

[Shelly Takacs]

NOTEUninstall any previous Zebra, Symbol or 3rd party drivers or SDKs installed on your system which communicate with Zebra Scanner Devices before installing the Zebra Scanner SDK. This includes but is not limited to Zebra and Symbol supplied OPOS, JPOS and SNAPI drivers.

NOTE For a list of a scanner's supported attribute (parameter) numbers and definitions, refer to the Product Reference Guide for that model scanner, available from the Zebra Support website at Attributes include configuration parameters, monitored data, and asset tracking information.

Execute the setup program. The installation process checks for CoreScanner drivers on the target machine. If the driver package is not present or outdated, clicking Install adds updated drivers before installing the scanner SDK package.

The user is prompted with two installation options: Complete - The installation package installs all components. Custom - The installation package gives the option to select which components are loaded during the installation process. The user is prompted to select components from the available list.

The user can select the destination folder by clicking Browse and selecting the drive and folder in which to install the Zebra Scanner SDK. However, common components are placed in designated locations for consistency with other SDK users.

The Zebra Scanner SDK is capable of communicating with scanners connected to serial ports through Nixdorf Mode B, or SSI serial host mode. The SDK does not open any serial port without user consent to prevent other devices from being interfered with by Scanner SDK commands. Users can configure SDK usage of serial ports with entries in the section of the config.xml file located in %Program Files%\Zebra Technologies\Barcode Scanners\Common.

Serial mode setting entries indicate the serial com port number (PORT ID), the baud rate (BAUD) and the serial host mode (NAME) used to communicate with the attached scanner. The value of the name field can be NIXMODB, or SSI and the value of each of the three fields must be enclosed in quotation marks.

By default, the serial port settings in config.xml are commented out. To activate a serial mode setting, enter a line outside of the commented area, modify the settings appropriately, save the config.xml file and restart the CoreScanner service.

The Zebra Scanner SDK is capable of configuring a scanner to send simulated HID keyboard output (also known as HIDKB pump, or HIDKB emulation mode) while in USB SNAPI, USB IBM Hand-held, USB IBM Table-top, SSI, or RS-232 Nixdorf Mode B communication modes. This simulated HID keyboard output functionality can be configured by changing the XML elements in the simulated HID KB setting section of the config.xml file.

DDF enables the formatting of scanned bar code data with prefix and suffix labels through the CoreScanner driver and available from CoreScanner version 3.07.0037. DDF is available while the scanner is in USB SNAPI, USB IBM Hand-held, USB IBM Table-top, SSI, or RS-232 Nixdorf Mode B communication mode1. Unlike Advanced Data Formatting (ADF), DDF does not permit modifying the scanned bar code data itself with any rule-based method. The prefix/suffix labels are composed of one or more ASCII characters (1-255). There can be one or more prefix/suffix labels, and they are defined in the config.xml file in the section using the tag. The DDF description is composed of a section, and a section. The section defines the prefix/suffix labels used in DDF, and how they are combined in various ways to compose one or more DDF format definitions in the form of tags.

Four DDF prefix/suffix/ALT labels are defined as: SUFFIX1, SUFFIX2, PREFIX1, and ALT1. The values in these tags are delimited by a '.' character in the XML. Each of these labels is defined as shown below with the decimal ASCII character sequence that they represent:

This format definition is identified by the keyword DDFCode and the format is represented by the keyword DDFFormat. Note that "DATA" is an intrinsic that means "Insert the Scanned Bar Code Here". The format definition to be executed is based on DDFCode and is specified in the tag.

SDF enables the formatting of scanned bar code data with prefix and suffix labels through the CoreScanner driver. SDF is available while the scanner is in USB SNAPI, USB IBM Hand-held, USB IBM Table-top, SSI, or RS-232 Nixdorf Mode B communication mode1. Unlike Advanced Data Formatting (ADF), SDF does not permit modifying the scanned bar code data itself with any rule-based method. The prefix/suffix labels are composed of one or more ASCII characters (1-255). There can be one or more prefix/suffix labels, and they are defined in the config.xml file in the section using the tag. The SDF description is composed of a section, and a section. The section defines the prefix/suffix labels used in SDF, and how they are combined in various ways to compose one or more SDF format definitions in the form of tags.

In the XML sample above, four SDF prefix/suffix labels are defined as: SUFFIX1, SUFFIX2, PREFIX1, and PREFIX2. The values in these tags are delimited by a '.' character in the XML. Each of these labels is defined as shown below with the decimal ASCII character sequence that they represent:

This format definition is identified by the keyword SdfCode and the format is represented by the keyword SdfFormat. Note that "DATA" is an intrinsic that means "Insert the Scanned Bar Code Here". The format definition to be executed is based on SdfCode and is specified in the tag. The XML clause above would transmit the bar code data as:

The CoreScanner driver and the Scanner SDK require the Microsoft 2019 C++ Redistributable Package which automatically installs if it is does not already exist on the host PC. For an unattended installation, a complication arises if the 2019 C++ Redistributable is not pre-installed. By default, Microsoft triggers a reboot of the PC after the C++ Redistributable installation. In this case, a reboot is injected into the overall silent install process (which may then also require a login).

To avoid the interruption, the 2019 C++ Redistributable can be downloaded from Microsoft and pre- installed silently while suppressing the reboot using the command line switches /install /quiet /norestart. This delays the required reboot, and allows a custom silent CoreScanner and Scanner SDK install to be performed using a subsequent command.

The Zebra Scanner SDK, including the underlying CoreScanner driver, is packaged using the Flexera InstallShield installer program. SDK components can be selectively installed using the SDK Custom Installation option. In conjunction with this custom install option, the installer program supports command line switches to record custom responses that can be used to create a silent install response file. These response files, ending in the extension .iss, may then be used to perform a silent installation of the CoreScanner driver and Scanner SDK components on production PCs.

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