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Zebra barcode scanners · eleven models · Australian stockEleven Zebra scanners, which is every one worth putting in front of you rather than the two hundred Zebra publishes. Prices are what you pay, in Australian dollars, including GST, excluding freight.
If you already know what you are after, the filters below will get you there in two clicks. If you do not, start with the row of plain questions above them — that is what the phone call would start with anyway.
Every scanner we sell
The one most counters and stockrooms should buy. Reads a printed barcode, a QR code, and a barcode held up on a customer's phone.
The DS2208 without the cable. Same reading, a cradle that charges it, and the freedom to take the scanner to the box instead of the box to the scanner.
A step up from the DS2208 for a counter that never stops — built for a heavier duty cycle rather than a different kind of barcode.
Stands on the counter and reads what is presented to it, hands free, without anybody picking anything up. Can still be lifted and used by hand.
Bars only, and nothing to wear out — a linear imager has no moving mirror in it. The same money as the LS2208 laser next to it.
The laser that has been on Australian counters for twenty years. Still sold, still supported, and the one to buy if you are replacing one of them.
Cordless, bars only. For a stockroom or a dispatch bench where nothing arrives as a QR code and the cable is the thing that keeps getting in the way.
The rugged one, on a cable. Built for a warehouse floor rather than a counter, and available in a version that reads right across an aisle.
The rugged one without the cable. Cradle, power supply and DC lead in the kit — plus the mains cord, which the kit ships without. We add it, and it is in the price.
The LI3608 that also reads 2D. Same rugged body, same cable — but it reads a QR or DataMatrix code, which is what a carton label increasingly is.
The rugged cordless 2D scanner at arm's length rather than across a yard. Everything the XR is, without the extreme-range optics — and three hundred dollars less.
The LI3678 that also reads 2D, in the long-range version. Rugged, cordless, cradle and mains cord in the kit. The one a warehouse asks for once its cartons start carrying 2D labels and the racking is high.
Almost always this is a counter scanner asked to read across an aisle. Nothing is built that way, because nothing at a till is more than an arm's length away — reading at distance needs the rugged body and the bigger optics that come with it.
Ring us — 0414 53 53 95Warranty is per model, and the pattern is not the one you would guess. The $99 LS2208 on this page carries five years. The rugged LI3678, at seven times the price, carries three. There is no rule to work it out from — cheap does not mean short and rugged does not mean long — so the figure is on every card rather than summarised into a sentence that would be wrong for half of them. All of it is return to base: the unit comes back to us for repair or replacement, rather than somebody coming out to you.
Nearly every scanner conversation we have had since 1991 comes down to these. Everything after them is preference.
A laser reflects light off a printed bar, and a screen does not reflect that way — so a 1D laser reads nothing at all from a phone. If a loyalty card, an e-ticket or an emailed order number will ever be held up to it, you need a 2D imager. That is the whole $99 versus $149 decision.
At a counter it does, and a corded scanner is cheaper, lighter and never flat. In a stockroom, on a pallet, or up a ladder it does not, and the cable becomes the reason somebody stops counting. Cordless costs roughly twice as much and is worth it exactly when the item cannot be picked up.
Everything here is dropped eventually. A counter scanner survives a fall to the floor behind the till. A rugged LI3608 or LI3678 is built for concrete, dust and wash-down, and costs accordingly — so it is the right buy for a warehouse and the wrong buy for a shop.
The LS2208 and the LI2208 are the same $99. One is a laser with an oscillating mirror in it; the other is a linear imager with nothing moving at all. Both read the same printed 1D barcodes. If you are buying new rather than matching a fleet you already own, there is not much of an argument left for the laser — and we will happily sell you either.
No. A USB scanner types what it reads, exactly as if somebody had typed it on the keyboard, into whatever field the cursor is already sitting in. Plug it in, click into the box you want the number to land in, and scan. No driver, no install.
The beep means it read the barcode. It types wherever the cursor is, so if the cursor is not in a field — or the window is not the one in front — the characters go nowhere. Click into the field first. This is the single most common call.
A scanner can be set to add an Enter or a Tab after every scan, which is what turns a scan into a completed line. It is done by scanning a configuration barcode out of the product reference guide — no software and no cable to a PC. Ask us and we will send you the page with the right barcode on it.
If it is one of the 1D scanners on this page, no setting will fix that — a QR code is a square block rather than a row of bars and the scanner genuinely cannot see it. The fix is a 2D imager. Nothing is wrong with your scanner.
Pairing on a Zebra cordless scanner is done by scanning the barcode on the cradle itself, which re-pairs it in one scan. The cradle also charges the scanner, so a scanner that is dead rather than unpaired has usually been left out of it overnight.
Part number and quantity is all we need for a written quote with freight to your actual address. Been comparing online? Send us the quote and we will match it.