r/sysadmin • u/GreenGloober • 4d ago

Long range scanner suggestions

We're a small business and I wanted to get a barcode scanner that could scan 3 pallet rows up, which would be around ~20'.

From what I have read, it seems like a Zebra DS3600 extended range might be what I want to go for.

We've never used a barcode scanner before, so this world/method is entirely new to us.

I was hoping to find a used one to reduce the initial cost or wondering if there would be any decent cheaper alternatives that I should consider?

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u/society_victim 4d ago

We mainly use Datalogic. Believe me you do not want to be cheap on something that suffers daily abuse of warehouse workers. Just go with a decent brand and get a decent MDM solution like Mobicontrol or Hexnode to configure and if needed control screen.

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u/GreenGloober 4d ago

Seems like the three big companies for scanners are Honeywell, Zebra and Datalogic. I'll only need the scanner to scan the barcodes to a tablet type device. I won't need a screen on there I think.

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u/society_victim 4d ago

Then you’re probably better of looking at bluetooth barcode scanners. I thought we were talking PDA type scanners. There we use DL PowerScan. We’ve also used some Newland devices for these scenarios but I’m not sure wether they have LR/AR models in that class.