Read the tiniest, most difficult bar codes

Data Man 8000 hand-held reader from Cognex reads hard-to-read 2D data matrix bar codes. Integrated liquid lens technology is said to be a first-of-its-kind.

Pat Reynolds
Dec 30, 2010
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