Zebra DS8178 Wireless Handheld Barcode Imager Scanner

      As a retailer, you understand that the checkout experience is crucial for businesses—it's an opportunity to leave a good impression on your customers. The quality of the checkout experience largely depends on the performance of the scanner you choose. If cashiers need to scan barcodes multiple times or manually enter unreadable barcodes, the checkout process can quickly become hindered, leading to longer queues and increased wait times. Cashiers then have to focus on recording transactions, neglecting the opportunity to provide a positive in-store experience for customers. Now, with Zebra's DS8178 wireless handheld imager, you can leave an excellent impression on every customer. The DS8178 wireless scanner significantly enhances the performance of conventional imagers, offering one-dimensional and two-dimensional barcode scanning capabilities and manageability. It helps speed up checkout, allowing your cashiers to provide a more personalized checkout experience. The DS8178 wireless scanner—a product that improves the checkout experience.

Zebra DS8178 Wireless Handheld Barcode Imager Scanner Features

1. Efficient performance, capable of capturing almost any barcode under any conditions

The DS8178 wireless handheld barcode scanner combines an 800 MHz microprocessor, a high-resolution megapixel sensor, and Zebra's PRZM technology. With this combination of hardware and algorithms, the DS8178 scanner can instantly capture most problematic barcodes—including dense, poorly printed, wrinkled, faded, distorted, dirty, damaged, or dimly displayed electronic barcodes.

2. Scanning range

With a scanning range of up to 24 inches/61 centimeters, the high-resolution imaging scanner and bright "scan spot" enhance checkout speed. Now, cashiers in busy checkout environments can easily scan items in customers' shopping carts—without leaving the checkout counter.

3. Battery life sufficient for 24 hours of continuous scanning

No matter how busy your store is, with Zebra's PowerPrecision+ battery in the cordless DS8178, your staff will always have enough power to last their shifts. Your devices remain available—no need to recharge during the workday.

4. PRZM imaging

Zebra PRZM technology instantly transforms poor images into useful images for faster decoding. PRZM then performs processing typically done in decoders to reduce power consumption, extend battery life, and further improve decoding speed.

5. Barcode support—Digimarc

The DS8178 supports Digimarc digital watermarking technology, allowing barcodes to be repeatedly printed on all surfaces of a product, just like a watermark—even fully visible to the naked eye. Cashiers no longer need to locate and position barcodes within the imager's field of view, enabling faster checkout and simpler self-checkout.

6. Capture multiple barcodes with a single press of the scan trigger

Multi-Code Data Formatting (MDF) provides the ability to capture multiple barcodes and transmit data in the exact order required by the application.

7. Battery level indication

No more guessing about battery status before a shift begins. The DS8178 allows you to easily determine whether the battery needs replacement before putting the scanner into use.

8. Eliminate Bluetooth interference with Zebra's Wi-Fi Friendly Mode

Ensures your DS8178 Bluetooth scanner operates on channels not shared with your wireless LAN (WLAN), ensuring WLAN services for your staff and customers remain unaffected.

9. Instantly capture full-page documents

The DS8178 scanner can capture full-page documents. With a single press of the scan trigger, Zebra's document capture and high-resolution 1280 x 960 camera capture high-resolution images of full-page 8.5 x 11 or A4 documents and transmit data in the correct format for electronic storage—reducing the cost and space requirements of document scanners.

10. Capture driver's license data (DL version required)

With a single press of the scan trigger, cashiers can capture and parse data from driver's licenses to automatically populate loyalty or credit card applications and verify age for age-restricted purchases.

11. Direct decode indication improves efficiency

A flashing light on the barcode indicates that decoding is complete, allowing staff to proceed without pausing to ensure the barcode was correctly captured.

12. Visibility into scanning and battery performance metrics

Easily identify and correct barcode issues with detailed scanning performance metrics, including the speed and type of every scanned barcode, preventing impacts on staff efficiency and customer service quality.

With comprehensive battery status information, including full charge/discharge cycles, battery condition monitoring, and full charge capacity, you can easily identify and replace aging batteries before they can no longer last an entire shift. This information allows you to order and install new batteries in time before battery failures affect front-end operations and cause checkout delays.

13. Control your scanner via mobile, tablet, or PC

With this easy-to-use application, you can control the imager's beeper, vibration, and LED to set user alerts; display scanned barcode data; access model and serial numbers; and view battery statistics from Android, iOS, and Windows phones, tablets, and PCs.

14. Easily manage all your scanners with powerful complementary tools

With 123Scan, you can easily create configuration barcodes to program scanners. If your imagers are located in multiple locations, Scanner Management Service (SMS) allows you to configure and update the firmware of DS8178 devices connected to the host—without the need for a service station setup or user intervention—for example, scanning configuration barcodes.

15. Simplified application development

With our scanner Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Windows, Android, iOS, and Linux, you have everything you need to easily integrate scanning into your business applications. These SDKs provide documentation, drivers, testing utilities, and sample source code.

Zebra DS8178 Wireless Handheld Barcode Imager Scanner Application Industries:

1. Retail: Point of Sale (POS), loyalty applications, electronic gift card redemption, warehouse receiving, inventory management;

2. Service Industry: Check-in, ticketing (concerts, sports events, etc.), membership cards;

3. Transportation & Logistics: Goods receiving and shipping, sorting, product tracking, ticketing (airports, train and bus hubs);

4. Light Industry/Clean Manufacturing: Product and component tracking, work-in-progress (WIP);

5. Other Industries: Sports, administration, banking.

Zebra DS8178 Wireless Handheld Barcode Imager Scanner Detailed Specifications

Physical Parameters

Dimensions: 16.8 cm (H) x 6.6 cm (W) x 10.7 cm (D)

Charging Dock: 2.8 inches (H) x 3.3 inches (W) x 8.3 inches (D)

7.1 cm (H) x 8.4 cm (W) x 21.1 cm (D)

Hands-Free Charging Dock: 2.9 inches (H) x 3.7 inches (W) x 4.8 inches (D)

7.4 cm (H) x 9.4 cm (W) x 12.2 cm (D)

Weight: Gun Body: 8.3 oz/235.3 g

Charging Dock: 7.1 oz/202 g

Hands-Free Charging Dock: 6.5 oz/182 g

Input Voltage Range: 4.5 to 5.5 VDC

Charging Dock: 5V: 4.7 to 5.5 VDC; 12V: 10.8 to 13.2 VDC

Current: Charging Dock: 470 mA; USB; 743 mA    12V

Color: White, Black

Supported Host Interfaces: USB, RS-232, Keyboard Wedge, TGCS (IBM) 46XX over RS485

Keyboard Support: Supports over 90 keyboard types

FIPS: Compliant with FIPS 140-2

User Indicators: Direct decode indication, successful decode LED, rear-view LED, beeper (adjustable tone and volume), battery indicator

Performance Parameters

Light Source Focus Mode: Circular 617nm amber LED

Illumination: 645nm red LEDs

Imager Field of View: 48° (horizontal) x 37° (vertical), rated

Image Sensor: 1,280 x 960 pixels

Print Contrast: Not less than 16% reflectance difference

Tilt/Rotation Tolerance: +/- 60°; +/- 60°; 0-360°

Imaging Parameters

Supported Image Formats: Capable of exporting images in Bitmap, JPEG, or TIFF formats

Image Quality: A4 document 109 PPI

Resolution: Code 39 - 3.0 mil; Code 128 - 3.0 mil; Data Matrix - 6.0 mil; QR Code - 6.0 mil

Usage Environment

Operating Temperature: 32°F to 122°F/0°C to 50°C

Charging Temperature: 32°F to 104°F/0°C to 40°C

Storage Temperature: -40° to 158°F/-40° to 70°C

Humidity: 5% to 95% (non-condensing)

Drop Specification: Withstands multiple drops from 6.0 feet/1.8 meters onto concrete

Roll Specification: Withstands multiple rolls from 1.5 feet/0.5 meters

Environmental Sealing: IP42

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD): DS8108/DS8178 and Charging Dock: ESD per EN61000-4-2, +/-15 KV (air), +/-8 KV (direct), +/-8 KV (indirect)

Ambient Light Immunity: 0 to 9000 Foot Candles/0 to 96840 Lux

Radio Specifications

Bluetooth RF: Bluetooth version 4.0 with BLE: Class 1 330 feet (100 meters) and Class 2 33 feet (10 meters), serial port and HID Profiles

Adjustable Bluetooth Power: Class 1: Output power adjustable downward in 8 steps from 4 DBM

Class 2: Output power adjustable downward in 8 steps from 2 DBM

Battery

Battery Capacity/Battery Type: 2500 mAh lithium-ion Power Precision+ battery

Optional Accessories: Charging dock, hands-free charging dock, wall mount bracket, spare battery, document capture stand