Basecent USB Laser Barcode Scanner Reader with Quick Scanning Capabilities

Kendra Schultz: I really like this scanner for my classroom library! It is easy to use and to hook up. It helps me keep my library organized and neat. I would be lost without it!

United States on Jun 25, 2023

D. McConeghy: Does just what you'd expect. Immediate connection. Simple output to cursor. Plenty of range and battery life. Huge list of options and tweaks. I had a question about removing a suffix, they answered back immediately with the answer. I have two requests that would make things even better: 1) a link to a pdf of the barcodes so that I could print them and 2) more examples in the presuffix editing instructions.

United States on Mar 08, 2023

Jim: Ordered this for Civil Air Patrol to use with local meeting attendance tracking. Wanted wireless because kids and adults entering the facility can be chaotic and I do not want a laptop or tablet going flying when a cord gets caught on someone.

In the box: one scanner, one USB cable (charging and direct connection to PC without the wireless dongle), one USB wireless dongle (tiny), one instruction booklet/additional page with programing barcodes.

Windows 10 PC identified the USB dongle out of the box as a "barcode scanner" and was up and running in 30 seconds (laptop has SSD). I spent more time playing with settings once it was functioning. Opened Notepad and zap... zap...

Using the scanner - pull the trigger once to wake it up if needed, pull the trigger again to scan something. Pull the trigger again to scan again, and again and again. Factory fresh it would emulate a keyboard entering "abc123456 <enter>" if the barcode was "abc123456". It emulates a keyboard with someone typing the barcode in quickly and <enter> per my unit's configuration.

Lighting to USB adapter on an iPad mini (AKA Apple's camera adapter) accepted the wireless dongle and...

United States on Nov 09, 2021

Lance: I have several collections I want to catalog and I bought this device to be able to read and record UPC codes. In that sense it works fine, once you figure out what to do. First, you need to keep the booklet of codes tha comes with the device. These codes tell the device what to do. The device is paired by Bluetooth to a computer. Figuring out WHAT to do is more obtuse than figuring out HOW to do it. The instructions are minimal and you may have to go to YouTube or elsewhere online to learn what to do. Pairing this to my desktop computer was easy. But I want to catalog my books and it’s easy to carry my iPad to my books, so I tried to pair this device to my iPad. So far that hasn’t been successful. I have tried to scan many books at one time and leave those catalog numbers stored in the device for later uploading to my desktop, but after a short while and before I get to my desktop for uploading, the device turns itself off and loses the data. Somewhere along the line, with time, patience, and research I will get this all to work the way I think it should. The potential is there.

Amended 6-9-21
I emailed the company’s support center regarding my issues with...

United States on Jun 05, 2021

Mike: I am very carful when it comes to lower priced item because from my experience do not perform good, but since this product offered free returns and a one year warranty I decided to give it a try. I own a retail shipping store so we scan bar codes all day long for shipping labels on boxes that customers bring in, sometimes the customer label is not clear or covered with clear tape so we are not always working with the ideal barcode and the scanner job is to be able to read the barcode and not struggle with hard to read barcodes.

For the price of what I paid for this scanner I am very impressed compared to a $200 scanner it performs to about 98% like the more expensive scanner by reading the challenging bar codes for a quarter of the price which is good to me.

The next test is to see how long it will last, if I can get a full year of usage out of this scanner then I got my moneys worth, will see how the manufacture will handle any issue that come up in the future and will post an update.

So far their tech support was great, I emailed them with a questions and they replied within a day and resolved the issue. I am happy with this scanner so far.

United States on Jun 19, 2020