TABLE OF CONTENTS
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   POWERSCAN™ PD/PM96XX
Connecting BC9680 cables  ...............................................................................................................24
Connecting the Base Station  ...........................................................................................25
System and network layouts  ...........................................................................................27
Stand Alone Layouts .........................................................................................................................27
BC96xX Configuration .....................................................................................................28
Serial Configuration  ..........................................................................................................................28
Configuration Bar Codes ...................................................................................................................28
Interface Selection  .........................................................................................................28
Configuring the Interface  ................................................................................................29
Customizing Configuration Settings  .................................................................................32
Using the Programming Bar Codes  .................................................................................................32
Datalogic Aladdin™ Utility  ................................................................................................................32
Interface Settings ..............................................................................................................................32
Configuring Other Features ..............................................................................................................33
Software Version Transmission .......................................................................................................33
Resetting the Product Configuration to Defaults  ............................................................................33
Restore Custom Default Configuration ....................................................................................33
CHAPTER 3. 
CONFIGURATION WITH BAR CODES..................................................... 34
Configuration Parameters ...............................................................................................34
Interface Configuration: ............................................................................................................34
Parameters common to all interface applications: .................................................................34
Symbology-specific parameters: .............................................................................................35
GLOBAL INTERFACE FEATURES  .....................................................................................................36
Host Commands — Obey/Ignore .............................................................................................36
USB Suspend Mode  ..................................................................................................................36
 RS-232 INTERFACE .......................................................................................................37
RS-232 STANDARD SETTINGS .........................................................................................................38
Baud Rate ..................................................................................................................................38
Data Bits ....................................................................................................................................39
Stop Bits ....................................................................................................................................39
Parity  .........................................................................................................................................40
Handshaking Control ................................................................................................................41
 RS-232/USB-COM INTERFACES .....................................................................................42
RS-232/USB-COM SETTINGS  ...........................................................................................................43
Intercharacter Delay  .................................................................................................................43
Beep On ASCII BEL  ...................................................................................................................44
Beep On Not on File ..................................................................................................................44
ACK NAK Options  .....................................................................................................................45
ACK Character ...........................................................................................................................46
NAK Character  ..........................................................................................................................46
ACK NAK Timeout Value  ..........................................................................................................47
ACK NAK Retry Count  ..............................................................................................................47
ACK NAK Error Handling ..........................................................................................................48
Indicate Transmission Failure ..................................................................................................48
Disable Character ......................................................................................................................49
Enable Character .......................................................................................................................49
 KEYBOARD INTERFACE .................................................................................................50
COUNTRY MODE ................................................................................................................................51
Setup on PC to use ALT Universal  ...................................................................................51
Setting Country Mode  ...............................................................................................................52
OTHER KEYBOARD PARAMETERS ...................................................................................................66
Encoding Type ...........................................................................................................................66
ALT Output Type  .......................................................................................................................73
Caps Lock State  ........................................................................................................................74
Numlock ....................................................................................................................................74
Keyboard Numeric Keypad  ......................................................................................................75
Keyboard Send Control Characters  .........................................................................................75
Wedge Quiet Interval  ................................................................................................................76
Intercharacter Delay  .................................................................................................................76
Intercode Delay  .........................................................................................................................77