About Microscan

Microscan has achieved worldwide recognition as an innovative developer of hands-free automated bar code scanners and decoders for automated systems.

Founded in 1982, Microscan was the first company to successfully integrate a laser diode into a scanner. This breakthrough enabled a leadership position in the ever expanding field of miniaturized high-speed fixed-mount bar code scanning.

Microscan continued to excel with the introduction of the first fully integrated 2D code reader, the Quadrus® Smart Camera. Today, a complete array of scanning products is available for a diverse base of industrial and clinical users. These include automated document handling, electronic manufacturing, clinical diagnostic analyzers, automated tape libraries, and quality/process control tracking applications. Microscan continues its leadership role in advancing the state of the art in the bar code industry.

How Microscan Got Its Start

Sometimes all it takes to revolutionize an industry is a good idea and a little bit of exposure. Working out of his garage twenty years ago, an engineer integrated a laser diode into a bar code scanner and developed the first laser diode scanner. One year later at SCANTECH, the product changed the future of fixed-mount bar code scanning.

Microscan Repeats History

Today, members of the same engineering team which helped fill that original order in 1982 continue to design leading edge products for Microscan. Microscan is setting a new record, again, for high speed scanning in a small, fixed-mount scanner with its latest products.

Microscan has a significant past, but more importantly, we have an even brighter future.