Hey there Graham,

I actually happened to be doing a Barcode on a project - which I just

wrapped up this morning. Although, the scanner I was using was

different, and the BarCode SW (IDAutomation) may be different than what

you are using. But, there may be some commonalities - as your problems

seems related to what I was dealing with.=20

There is supposed to be Start/Stop characters in the Barcode. Generally

it's the Asterisks. Now, in the actual human-readable number that is at

the bottom of the Barcode - people don't always want to see the

Asterisks on there. So, I had to do coding to remove the asterisks for

display purposes - by using parenthesis - () - as the start/stop

characters - instead of the asterisks.

Hoepefully this may shed some light or put you in the right direction...

-K-

-----Original Message-----

From: On Behalf Of Mark Dimmock

Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:17 AM

If you cant find the answer in the manual, from my experience the UK

telephone support at Symbol are very helpful.

Regards

Mark

-----Original Message-----

From: On Behalf Of Graham Brown

Sent: 14 May 2009 17:30

Hi all

=20

I've got a Symbol LS2208 scanner. On one system when I scan the barcode

I get *ABC* which is what I want but on another I just get ABC.

I have a dim distant recollection I have to scan a barcode which says

"transmit start/stop characters" or words to that effect but I can't

remember where I saw it.

=20

Anybody shed any light please?

=20

Cheers

Graham