(Cognex: Natick, MA) -- Cognex Corp. announces the DataMan 300, its most advanced fixed-mount industrial ID reader ever created. The DataMan 300 is designed to handle the most difficult ID code-reading applications on even the highest speed lines. These new readers dramatically increase bar code read rates and speed with a new 1DMax+ algorithm, which incorporates new “Hotbars” technology. For 2-D matrix and difficult-to-read, direct part mark (DPM) codes, reading performance has also been significantly improved from a major upgrade of 2DMax to the 2DMax+ algorithm. With the DataMan 300, setup and deployment is even easier than before, with modular, controllable lighting options and a unique intelligent tuning system.

“It just reads. Period,” says says Carl Gerst, vice president and business unit manager of Cognex ID products. “The DataMan 300 can read any code we challenge it with. Besides unprecedented read rates, the DataMan 300 reader is our easiest to install and maintain, saving our customers time and money—two things they need to allocate to other areas of their operation to be successful.”

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