Recommended Hardware
This page provides links to some recommended hardware currently in use by GX-Ware customers. These can be purchased from our preferred resellers by clicking on the link associated with each item. In each case additional information about the item is provided by the reseller.
GX-Ware Preferred Resellers
Scanners
GX-Ware Security Scanning allows you to retrieve important information about a resource such as a customer or an employee very quickly. Scanners take a variety of shapes and sizes and depend on how or where you will install them.
The following hand scanner is currently in used by one of our customers, they have a children's club where each child is issued a membership card on joining the club. Whenever the child enters the club they present their card which is scanned using the hand scanner below. If the child has forgotten their card then their name and address can be looked up manually. Because there are always quite a few children who have misplaced their cards the hand scanner provides for easy transition between the scanner and the computer keyboard.
Before buying a scanner you should consider the kinds of barcodes that you wish to read. There are many different types of barcode each of which looks different and typically has a different purpose.
This is an example of a type 39 bar code used as a product label on a box. This kind of code is free for general use and is employed all over the world. GX-Ware Resource Control will print type 39 codes using GX-Ware Reports.
Here is an example of an MSI or Modified Plessey code that is often used for inventory or stock control.
Scanners comes in many shapes and sizes and all will support a different range of barcodes, before purchasing please check the scanner's manual to ensure it is compatible with the code you wish to use. Please choose one of the following links for more information:
Printers
Label Printers
Many of our customers require specialist kinds of printer, for example Generation X Design ourselves use GX-Ware to manage our list of customers. When we have a new customer we add then to the system and then print out a label containing the License Key and Serial Number for the choice of product. We then stick this label onto the box before shipping it out to the customer.
The Dymo Label Writer 400 is the model we currently use:
Receipt Printers
One of our launderette customers prints receipts containing barcodes that will identify both the customer and what clothes they want cleaned. At the moment the
Star Micronics TSP 100 series available from the
Barcode Warehouse is the most popular model.
Complete Solutions
If your company is based in the United Kingdom or Ireland we do offer a complete solution service where we can provide you with both software and computer hardware specifically tailored to your business.
For more information please see our
Solutions page.