The item is too big to lift
A pallet, a drum, a length of pipe, a mattress. The scan has to happen where the thing is, and a cable decides how far that can be.
Cordless handheld · 2D imager
Zebra DS2278
The DS2208 without the cable. It reads the same things - printed barcodes, QR codes, and a barcode held up on a customer's phone - and it goes to the item instead of the item coming to it.
The cradle charges it and pairs it. Pairing is one scan of the barcode on the cradle itself, which is also how you fix it if it ever stops talking.
Why this one
When the item cannot come to the counter.
Cordless costs roughly twice what corded does, and the honest answer is that most counters do not need it. These are the cases that do.
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The stock is on a trolley
A hardware checkout is the clearest case there is. The trolley arrives with two bags of cement, four lengths of timber and a bucket of paint on it, and none of that is coming up onto the counter. The scanner goes to the trolley, the operator scans down through the load without lifting anything, and nobody is standing there watching a twenty kilo bag get wrestled onto a bench.
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The cable keeps catching
On a dispatch bench with a scale, a printer and a roll of labels already on it, the cable is one more thing to snag - and the first thing to get pulled out of the port.
What it costs
Part numbers and prices.
| Zebra part number | What is in the box | Price inc GST |
|---|---|---|
| DS2278-SR7U2100PRW | DS2278 Cordless handheld scanner CBA-U21-S07ZBR Shielded USB Cable Cradle CR2278-PC10004WW |
$350 |
Buying more than one
Zebra quantity pricing, held until 31 January 2027. Same scanner, same kit — the price per unit drops with the number on the order.
- 3 $324 each $972 the lot — saves $78
- 10 $299 each $2,990 the lot — saves $510
Warranty
3 years, return to base — the unit comes back to us for repair or replacement rather than somebody coming out to you. Warranty runs by model rather than by price, so it is worth checking against whatever else you are comparing.
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Low stock — worth ringing first
There is stock and there is not much of it. It still ships the same day if it is still there when your payment lands, which is exactly the sort of thing to confirm on the phone rather than assume from a webpage. Ring and we will hold it while you sort the order out.
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If it has gone, we will say so that day
And tell you when the next lot lands, or what else does the same job. We would rather lose the order than take one we cannot fill this week.
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Tell us the part number and how many
That is genuinely all we need. You get a written quote back with freight worked out to your actual address, because a scanner to Parramatta and one to Port Hedland are not the same delivery and we would rather not pretend otherwise. A new account pays before it ships, and the clock starts when the payment confirms.
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Been comparing online? Send us the quote
If you have a written quote from somebody else on the same part number, we will match it. No haggling required, and no need to pretend you have not been looking.
Documents
Spec sheets and guides.
Spec sheet
DS2278 spec sheetDS2278 · PDF, 388 KB
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Quick start
DS2278 quick start guideDS2278 · PDF, 1.7 MB
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User manual
DS2278 user manualDS2278 · PDF, 4.0 MB
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Accessories
DS2200 series accessory guideDS2278 · PDF, 523 KB
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Programming
Advanced data formatting ADF programmer guideDS2278 · PDF, 1.1 MB
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Not sure this is the right one?
Tell us what you are scanning and where. Thirty-five years of these conversations says the answer is usually simpler, and cheaper, than it looks from the inside.