Fixed mount bar code scanners are designed to manually or mechanically read items passed by their scan windows.

Hand held bar code scanners are used typically as inventory or point of sale (POS) devices.

Kiosks and point of sale (POS) systems are used for sale processing and inventory tracking.

Magnetic stripe card readers and encoders read and encode magnetic stripe cards, credit cards, etc.

Industrial printing equipment includes screen printers, pad printers and offset printers.

Laser printers use a laser beam to produce an image on a drum that is rolled through a reservoir of toner.

Ink jet printers project electrically charged droplets of ink onto a page.