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
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-----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.)
Elizabeth
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Dr. Elizabeth A. Moore, Curator of Collections
Virginia Museum of Natural History
1001 Douglas Avenue
Martinsville, VA 24112
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