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Acrylic Windows Improve Scanning

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Daniel C. McCarthy

The material quality of a barcode scanner's window may seem to be a trivial detail to scanner users, but careless material selection by the manufacturer contributes to misreads, failures and the need for frequent maintenance. Polycarbonate's impact resistance makes it the material of choice for the windows in handheld scanners, but window supplier Dawar Technologies instead selected Clarex acrylic from Astra Products Inc. "[Polycarbonate] would never work better, but it is always cheaper," said Tom Fabek, vice president of sales and marketing at Dawar. "If the end users are not...Read full article

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