Both - we have a wide variety of solutions, from cataloging your library and art collections using bar code labels or tags, to pricing merchandise in your museum shop. We can put together an application for any situation that makes your objects easier to organize and track. I'd be happy to send you free information on our Symbol scanners, including the Palm-based handhelds. Just respond to me off-list with your mailing address and I'll send some literature out to you, or see our website, www.integratedlabeling.com for more information. MacKenzie Mallon, Marketing Assistant Integrated Labeling Systems, Inc. 22 Cotton Road Nashua, NH 03036 (603) 886-9200, ext. 4025 fax: (603) 886-5707 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Bonnie Merkle [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:40 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: handhelds/PDAs/barcode scanning are you thinking in terms of the library or the objects of art? >>> [log in to unmask] 06/28/01 12:49PM >>> Dear Listers, I'd like to put in my own two cents regarding the handheld collections applications. Although my master's degree is in art history, I am now marketing assistant for Integrated Labeling Systems, a company which provides barcoding solutions. If you're interested in cataloging your collection using barcode technology, we sell the printers, labels, scanners, and accessories for just such an application, including the Palm-based Symbol scanners. Feel free to respond to me off list for more information. MacKenzie Mallon, Marketing Assistant Integrated Labeling Systems, Inc. 22 Cotton Road Nashua, NH 03036 (603) 886-9200, ext. 4025 fax: (603) 886-5707 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth A. Moore [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:10 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: handhelds/PDAs/barcode scanning Hello all, Given the recent responses on handhelds, I wanted to add another query to the combined experience of list members.... Symbol (www.symbol.com) makes a barcode scanner that snaps right into a Palm OS-based Handspring Visor (www.handspring.com). We are in the process of evaluating barcode scanning systems for inventory and storage/tracking purposes in the collections. This has been a long process and I have already talked to some companies about the more traditional barcode scanners and their costs but I am intrigued about the possibility of using a PDA. The cost is less ($300-$400 for the PDA, $159 for the scanning module plug-in) than a more traditional handheld scanner w/keyboard plus, you can use the PDA for other things - digital camera, graphics display, wireless network access, general organizing, etc. - not just as a barcode scanner. That flexibility for that cost is enticing. Has anyone used a PDA for a collections application? Has anyone used the Visor w/barcode scanner or the Palm w/barcode scanner (also made by Symbol, the SPT 1500 or 1700)? If so, has this been difficult to interface with your collections software? How much did the programming for the PDA app cost you and what functions were included? How much did you have to pay the company of your proprietary software to access their code to HotSync inventory data with the Palm OS app? Any tips, comments, suggestions? Thanks. (Before you ask, no, we don't have a techno-geek on staff who can handle some of these questions.) 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