The ToughRunners rugged scanner range is a light and easy to use cordless Bluetooth (Class 1 up to 100m) scanner, available with either a CMOS, Laser or Long Range Laser scan engine. With a battery life capable of over 80,000 scans, and a full battery charge time of 3 hours, this unit is ideally suited to industrial logistics and warehouse applications.

• Only one button to switch on, connect and scan barcodes
• Available with either IP54 or IP65 rating
• Easy to integrate - simply plug in the USB or Serial Plug and Scan dongle into the host and read the selected pairing barcode.
• Scanning distance of 6cm to 27cm

Laser Barcode Scanner are the most common type of Barcode Scanner. A laser Barcode Scanner need not be in contact with a barcode to read it. A standard range laser Barcode Scanner can read a barcode from about 6 to 24 inches away, and a long range Barcode Scanner can read one from perhaps 2 to 8 feet away. Certain extra long-range laser Barcode Scanner are capable of reading a barcode from up to 30 feet away. Laser Barcode Scanner are often in handheld or "gun" form factors, but are also regularly built for counter-top or fixed-mount applications.

Cordless Barcode Scanners provide portable solutions for rugged environments where users can benefit from the enhanced flexibility, mobility and safety associated with eliminating the data cable. Cordless Barcode Scanners are ideally suited for applications in tough industrial environments, such as loading docks where shipping and receiving of materials requires significant freedom of movement, as well as manufacturing applications where eliminating the cable minimizes the potential for accidents.

An imager is a Barcode Scanner that really functions more like a digital camera than a laser scanner, and is capable of reading two-dimensional symbologies. Rather than bouncing one or several beams of intense light off of a barcode, the imager bounces a burst of light off of the barcode and back into a camera-like eye, essentially taking a picture. Unlike a laser scanner the imager does not need the barcode to be oriented in anyway (other than within the scan area) in order to be legible.