Optimized for Performance, Innovation, and Manageability
Payment is the final opportunity to leave a lasting impression on your customers—and the quality of the payment experience largely depends on the performance of the scanner you choose. If cashiers need to scan barcodes multiple times or manually enter unreadable barcodes, your checkout lanes can quickly become congested, leading to long queues, extended wait times, and cashiers focusing on speeding through transactions rather than delivering a superior customer experience. Now, you can deliver the ultimate final impression to every customer with the DS8100 handheld scanner series. The DS8100 series surpasses conventional scanners, delivering unmatched scanning performance for both 1D and 2D barcodes, creative productivity tools, and interchangeable power options—PowerPrecision+ batteries or PowerCap capacitors, along with unparalleled management tools to keep your scanner operational and in your cashier’s hands.
Unprecedented Performance
The DS8100 series outperforms most barcodes in any condition. Only the DS8100 series combines the power of an 800 MHz processor, high-resolution megapixel sensor, and Zebra’s exclusive PRZM Intelligent Imaging technology. With this unique combination of hardware and advanced algorithms, the DS8100 can swiftly capture even the most challenging barcodes—dense, poorly printed, damaged, smudged, distorted, dirty, or electronically displayed on screens.
Superior Scanning Range
With a scanning range of up to 24 in./61 cm, high-resolution image sensor, and bright aiming technology, the DS8100 enhances checkout speed. Now, cashiers in busy checkout environments can easily scan items within a customer’s cart without leaving the checkout counter.
Innovative Interchangeability
Two interchangeable power source options mitigate your investment risks: PowerPrecision+ batteries or PowerCap capacitors. Both power options can be swapped at any time on all models, directly at your facility—without needing to purchase separate battery-powered devices. Managing your power is made easy as PowerPrecision+ batteries and PowerCap capacitors can report their model and serial numbers, ensuring you always know which power source is in each scanner.
Advanced Charging Technology
Easily see if your PowerPrecision+ batteries or PowerCap capacitors are fully charged at the start of each work shift.
Connect+ Contact Technology Designed for Longevity
The positioning of charging contacts within the DS8100 series charging cradle combined with Zebra’s exclusive Connect+ Contact Technology ensures reliable charging throughout the scanner’s lifecycle, without corrosion.
Future-Ready Barcode Support—Digimarc®
The DS8100 series supports Digimarc® digital watermarking technology, allowing barcodes to be repeatedly printed across all surfaces of a product, like wallpaper, yet remain completely invisible to the naked eye. Cashiers no longer need to find and align barcodes within the scanner’s view, enabling faster and easier payments.
Bluetooth Interference Elimination with Wi-Fi Friendly Mode
Operating only on non-shared channels with your wireless LAN (WLAN), protecting service levels for staff and customers.
Multi-Barcode Scanning with One Press
Multi-Code Data Formatting (MDF) provides the ability to scan multiple barcodes and only transmit the required codes in the correct sequence as your application demands.
Data Capture from Driver’s Licenses (DL model required)
With one press of a button, cashiers can scan and parse data from driver’s licenses to automatically populate loyal customer or credit card applications, verify age for age-restricted items, and more.
Direct Decoding Indicator Light Enhances Productivity
As the light on the barcode flashes to indicate a successful decode, cashiers no longer need to pause to ensure the barcode was scanned correctly.
Unmatched Management
Identify and resolve barcode issues with ScanSpeed Analytics. Get the insights you need to detect and fix barcode issues before they impact employee productivity and customer service quality. Exclusive to Zebra, ScanSpeed Analytics collects barcode type, scan speed, and more for each scanned barcode. And an image of the slowest scanned barcode helps you proactively identify and resolve issues to improve scanning speed.
Advanced Battery Performance Metrics
PowerPrecision+ batteries provide detailed health status, including consumed charge cycles, health status timer, and whether the battery can retain a full charge. Now, easily identify, order, and replace aging batteries before they fail, disrupting checkout operations and causing wait-time incidents.
Remote Control from Smartphones, Tablets, or PCs
With this user-friendly app, control scanner beeper, vibration, and LED lights to alert users, display scanned barcode data, access model and serial numbers, and access battery statistics and more from Android, iOS, and Windows smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
Free Tools for Advanced Management Needs
With 123Scan, easily create configuration barcodes to program scanners. If your scanners are located across multiple sites nationally or globally, with Scanner Management Service (SMS), configure and update firmware for any DS8100 device plugged into the server—no staging or user action required—such as scanning configuration barcodes.
Easy Application Development
Get everything you need to seamlessly integrate scanning into your business applications with Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Windows, Android, iOS, and Linux. These SDKs provide documentation, drivers, test utilities, and sample code.
Streamline the Entire Scanning Experience with DataCapture DNA
Hardware is just the starting point to maximize the value of your scanner. Supported by DataCapture DNA, the DS8100 series is a set of unique development, management, vision, and productivity tools. Leveraging Zebra’s 50 years of innovation, DataCapture DNA transforms Zebra scanners into powerful tools that reduce TCO and enable employees to accomplish more each day. Reduce development cycles with development tools. Significantly simplify scanner deployment at any scale with management tools. Get remote analytics you need to keep scanners running with vision tools. And achieve new levels of productivity with innovations that simplify tasks, allowing employees to capture data quickly and accurately.
