Chapter 3: Installation  3-5 
USB Keyboard Wedge Communication 
The 7893 can emulate a USB keyboard device by enumerating itself as an HID keyboard. By 
doing so, it passes barcodes directly to the host’s keyboard driver. This eliminates the need of 
installing a third party driver since the operating system’s native keyboard input driver will be 
used. 
Programmables 
1.  Enable USB keyboard Communications Interface    
Programming Mode + 1 + 0 + E + 3 
2.  Inter Character Delay     
 4  ms:  Programming Mode + 2 + 8 + D + 0 
 8  ms:  Programming Mode + 2 + 8 + D + 1 
16 ms:  Programming Mode + 2 + 8 + D + 2 
32 ms:  Programming Mode + 2 + 8 + D + 3 
64 ms:  Programming Mode + 2 + 8 + D + 4 
 1  ms:  Programming Mode + 2 + 8 + D + 5  (New for this release, new default value) 
3.  Start and Stop Sentinel, maximum of 9 bytes each     
Disable:  Programming Mode + 2 + 9 + 0  (zeros all start/stop entries) 
Start Sentinel:  Programming Mode + 2 + 9 + 1 + DATA + End 
Stop Sentinel:  Programming Mode + 2 + 9 + 2 + DATA + End 
DATA Input:  Enter each byte as 2 nibbles   
Example:  Start Sentinel = 0x31, 0x21, 0x2D  (0x31 will be transmitted first) 
DATA Tag Sequence = 3 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + D 
Tag Message Format 
The Tag Message will consist of the following: 
  Start Sentinel – 0 to 9 bytes 
  Tag Identifier – 1 byte 
  Tag Data – Variable, depending on the scanned tag 
  Stop Sentinel – 0 to 9 bytes