NCR 7872 Bi-Optic Scanner / Scale

The Low Profile Bi-Optic Scanner

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America MEA EuropeAsia-

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NCR 38% 21% 32% 25% 23% 31%PSC 31% 31% 0% 35% 20% 30%

Symbol 17% 13% 29% 11% 16% 15%

Fujitsu/ICL 6% 14% 13% 9% 21% 10%

Metrologic 6% 19% 9% 7% 4% 7%

Scantech 0% 0% 5% 12% 9% 5%

Other 2% 3% 12% 1% 7% 3%

VDC - August 2000 - Retail Stationary POS Bar Code Scanner Market Share

1974 "C" Model Scanner1976 "E" Model Scanner1979 "F" Model Scanner1984 7820 Configurable Top Deck Scanner1985 7824 Scanner / Scale1988 7852 Compact Scanner1989 PACESETTER1992 7890 Presentation Scanner1992 7870 Bi-Optic Scanner / Scale1992 PACESETTER Plus1993 7880 Sub-Compact Scanner1995 7800 Consumer Price Verifier1996 7875 Bi-Optic Aggressive Read Scanner/Scale1997 PACESETTER 31997 7890 Presentation Plus Scanner1997 7880-3000 Sub-Compact Scanner1997 7800 CPV with Presentation Plus Scanner1998 7875 Compact Scanner/Scale1999 7837 Hand-Held Linear Imager2000 7872 Low Profile Bi-Optic Scanner / Scale2000 7892 Bi-Modal Scanner

NCR’s History of Innovation

7875 and 7872 Bi-Optic Scanner/Scales

7800 Consumer Price Verifier

7880 / 7882 Scanner/Scale

7837 Linear Imager7892 Bi-Modal Scanner

Family of Retail Scanners

Overview

• Responsive to retailers

• Simple to master, comfortable to use

• Sharpens customer focus

• Enhances cashier performance and the customer’s shopping pleasure

Overview

• Lowest profile bi-optic scanner on the market today

• Wide variety of available sizes – Freedom to mount in

most any seated, standing or sit-stand checkstand on the market today

• Same unsurpassed NCR bi-optic performance and quality

Not all sizes are pictured

Sub-Compact

Compact Scanner /

Scale

Full Size Scanner /

Scale

Depth: 3.5” / 8.9 cm

Agenda

• Scanner Basics

• Effective Optics Design

• Largest, Most Effective Scan Pattern

• Built-in Presentation Scan Pattern

• Dual Focal Points

• 3D Scan Power Coverage

• Pacesetter III - Adaptive Label Reconstruction

• Other Features

• Summary

The pattern that you see is the result of one laser beam dot projected off mirrors.

SPINNING SET OF MIRRORS

Top ofScanner Deck

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LASER DIODE

LASER BEAM

Creation of the Scan Pattern

The spinner motor is responsible for sending the laser dot into space to read the UPC code. The faster the motor, the more

beams. The more beams, the better chance the cashier has of scanning the item.

LASER BEAMSpinner Motor

The NCR 7872 has the fastest spinner motor of ANY retail scanner on the market at 8,000 RPM. The nearest

competitive scanner’s spinner motor operates at 4,500 RPM -- The NCR 7872’s spinner motor is

78% faster.

The Spinner Motor

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Once outside the scanner windows, the “LASER BEAM DOT” is responsible for crossing over the UPC (Universal Product Code) as

the item is passed across the scanner.

Finding the UPC

The UPC can be read by more than one of the beams. The electronics or “brains” of the scanner makes this possible.

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The Pattern Finds the UPC

NCR Pacesetter electronics arethe fastest and most powerful “brains”

PACESETTER De-Codes

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If the laser beam hits the UPC at too great of an angle, the label will not be read. The NCR 7872 optics provides superior coverage of the UPC label.

Scanner top deck

It is difficult to reada barcode when an

ELLIPSE is too elongated.

Effective Optics Design

NCR 7872 scan pattern in vertical window

NCR 7872 scan pattern in horizontal window

The result of the NCR 7872’s effective optics design is the construction of a complete scan pattern. This helps the NCR 7872

to achieve impressive first pass read rates.

Complete Scan Pattern

Presentation Scan Pattern

• The presentation scan pattern that is built into the NCR 7872 provides an ideal method of scanning for single item scanning and coupons.

• This can result in up to a 40% improvement in scan time for these items

Vertical Windows

Presentation Scanning

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This is an example of a bar-code in perfectfocus.

This is an example of the same label moved away from competitive scanners. It appears out of focus.

The TWO FOCAL POINTS featured with the NCR 7872 allows the label to the right to appear in focus thus, improving first pass read rates. Each of the forty beams focuses on two points in space at the same time.

Dual Channel Video

3D Scan Power Coverage

• The 3D Scan Power metric describes how easily a scanner can find a label. – This is based on the amount of laser coverage you

would have on a moving product and how many times you can reach the location with a spot of laser light.

– This is the MOST accurate metric to date to objectively measure TRUE scan power of retail bar code scanners.