Hello...We are just beginning to explore installing Koha as our ILS. (Currently we have none.) We are running a Linux network, affiliated with the K12LTSP project (www.k12ltsp.org). I'm wondering about bar code scanners and bar codes. Are there any scanners that you know work with Koha? We want to buy the most economical obviously, but want it to work, and most of them appear to be plug and play. Any suggestions? Thanks... Elizabeth Spruill Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning (RMSEL) Denver, CO
Hello Elizabeth, We use a wide variety of scanners in Horowhenua Library (New Zealand) with Koha, from pretty cheap ones to quite expensive ones. They all work with an absolute minimum of setting up. My experience is you get what you pay for. If your issue station is not under heavy load, a cheap scanner will do the job fine. If you have a busy station, get the best you can afford - it will work in worse light, through plastic, read faster and be a joy forever. Good luck, Rosalie Blake On 25 Jun 2003, at 14:47, Elizabeth Spruill wrote:
Hello...We are just beginning to explore installing Koha as our ILS. (Currently we have none.) We are running a Linux network, affiliated with the K12LTSP project (www.k12ltsp.org). I'm wondering about bar code scanners and bar codes. Are there any scanners that you know work with Koha? We want to buy the most economical obviously, but want it to work, and most of them appear to be plug and play. Any suggestions? Thanks... Elizabeth Spruill Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning (RMSEL) Denver, CO
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Gidday Elizabeth I have not yet used a scanner but as far as I've seen, they plug into the keyboard plug, and then the keyboard plug piggybacks into that. All the scanner does is emulate keypresses so if I understand it correctly, no software involved, the PC does not know that you used a scanner rather than the keyboard. Max Great Southern Grammar Albany, Western Australia
Hello...We are just beginning to explore installing Koha as our ILS. (Currently we have none.) We are running a Linux network, affiliated with the K12LTSP project (www.k12ltsp.org). I'm wondering about bar code scanners and bar codes. Are there any scanners that you know work with Koha? We want to buy the most economical obviously, but want it to work, and most of them appear to be plug and play. Any suggestions? Thanks... Elizabeth Spruill Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning (RMSEL) Denver, CO
Hi all On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Max Stam wrote:
I have not yet used a scanner but as far as I've seen, they plug into the keyboard plug, and then the keyboard plug piggybacks into that.
Just to clarify, this type of scanner (I believe they're referred to as a "keyboard wedge") is probably the easiest to use with Linux systems. You can get barcode scanners that connect via serial or USB ports (I'm not sure about parallel port), and you may have to actually write a device driver for them. Safer to use the keyboard wedge type, they're just plug-and-play. Regards Richard
All the scanner does is emulate keypresses so if I understand it correctly, no software involved, the PC does not know that you used a scanner rather than the keyboard.
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