PSC Inc.
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PSC Inc. is a major manufacturer of portable data terminals, wireless terminals, bar code scanners, and RFID readers. The company reports having more than 4500 customers worldwide, including top companies in the airline, food, pharmaceutical, retail, aerospace, and chemical manufacturing industries.
PSC was founded in 1969 as Photographic Sciences Corporation. On June 26, 1974, PSC made history with the first UPC bar code scan. A 10 Pak of Wrigley’s chewing gum was scanned at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, using a PSC bar code scanner. In 1996 PSC acquired Spectra-Physics Scanning Systems, Inc., and followed up in 2000 with the acquisition of Percon Inc., a leading manufacturer of partable data terminals. Some Auto ID Data Capture (AIDC) industry observer speculate that these acquisitions may have required significant sums of cash, and could be the reason for PSC's 2002 bankruptcy reorganization. During the reorganization PSC spun off its software division, IntelliTrack, to private investors.
As of 2005 PSC remains one of the leading Auto ID Data Capture (AIDC) companies. Widely used models of bar code scanners sold by PSC include: Magellan®, Duet®, Falcon®, PowerScan®, and QuickScan®.
