IF your books include a 2 or 5 digit "supplement" to the UPC, you can
program your scanner to read them. Bad News - you're going to need to
update all of your SKUS to include the supplement in RMS. More Bad News
- if you get better than 75% scan rate on the supplements, you'll be
doing better than I could. An omni-directional scanner (it has multiple
lines in a grid pattern) is better than a line scanner, but you still
get a lot of misses on the supplement.
The manual that came with your scanner should have programming
instruction, or contact your reseller or the manufacturer for more info
on your hardware.
It seems like some publisher's books scan better than others - I think
it may have to do with the quality of the paper or inks they use, but
that's just a guess...
If you find a scanner that reads from comic books with supplements
reliably, please let me know!
By the way, if you set the scanner to REQUIRE supplements, you will get
a much better read rate, but you would need a separate scanner to read
items that DON'T have a supplement - like toys...
Glenn Adams
Tiber Creek Consulting
http://www.tibercreek.com
(e-mail address removed)