Manual (GBP301)

Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter User Manual (GBP301)

Welcome

Thank you for purchasing the IOGEAR Bluetooth Combo print adapter supporting both parallel and USB printers. This print adapter is a first rate connectivity accessory designed to help reduce the frustration of dealing with cables in your home or office. IOGEAR Combo print adapter with Bluetooth Technology allows Bluetooth enabled computers to send print job wirelessly to either parallel or USB printers.

IOGEAR, the IOGEAR logo, MiniView, VSE are trademarks or registered trademarks of IOGEAR, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc. Macintosh, G3/G4 and iMac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. IOGEAR makes no warranty of any kind with regards to the information presented in this document. All information furnished here is for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. IOGEAR, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies or errors that may appear in this document.

Table of Contents ○○○○○○○ Package Content ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 2

Overview ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○3 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○

Features ○○○○○○○○○ 4 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○

Requirements ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 5 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○

Introduction ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 6 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○

Installation ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 8 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Application ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 12

- Print from Computers ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○12

- Print from PDAs ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○13 ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○

The Utility Software ○○○○○ 31 ○○○○○○○○○○ Specification ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 32

Technical Support ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○33 ○○○○○○ Radio and TV Interference Statement ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 34

Limited Warranty ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○35 Package Contents

This package contains:

1– Bluetooth Print Adapter 1– Manual on CD 1– Quick Start Guide 1– Warranty/Registration Card 1– Power Adapter

* If any items are damaged or missing, please contact your dealer.

2 Overview

IOGEAR’s palm sized Combo Wireless Print Adapter with Bluetooth Technology allows any Bluetooth enabled computer or PDA to wirelessly send the print job to a USB or a parallel printer. It complies with USB 1.1, IEEE 1284, and the Bluetooth 1.1 specifications. It supports data transmission rates of up to 723 Kbps, and a wireless access range of up to 330ft (100 meters).

This unit supports HCRP (Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile) and SPP (Serial Port Profile), all of which resides on onboard flash memory. The RF circuitry on the RF chip includes complete receiver and transmitter functions.

This is a plug-n-play unit, it doesn’t require any special driver, plug it in the USB or parallel printer is all that entails.

3 Features

• Allows any Bluetooth enabled computer or PDA to wirelessly send print jobs to a USB or a parallel printer • Plug and Play, easy to install • Bluetooth Class 1 device with a 330 ft range (100 meters) • Supports data rate of 723 Kbps • Supports Pico-net and Scatter-net and up 7 devices • Complies with USB 1.1, IEEE 1284, and the Bluetooth 1.1 specifications • Supports HCRP (Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile) and SPP (Serial Port Profile)

4 System Requirements

Computers and PDAs:

• Windows based & Bluetooth enabled • Additional software may be required for PDAs

Printer:

• Either a USB or a parallel printer.*

*Only 1 printer is recommended to be connected, does not support two printers simultaneously. Multifunction printers not supported.

5 Introduction

IOGEAR Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter supports both IEEE1284 and USB printers, but only one connection at a time. In other words, it doesn’t support two printers simultaneously. If you plug printers to both parallel and USB ports, only the parallel printer connected will work.

1. USB printer port 2. IEEE1284 parallel printer port 3. Power connection 4. Reset button 5. Power LED 6. Bluetooth LED 7. Printer LED

6 Introduction

The RESET button is to re-initialize the printer adapter. Use a pointed object to initialize the Reset process.

The Power LED turns on when power is supplied through the power adapter.

The Bluetooth LED blinks when Bluetooth link is established but no data is transmitted on the line. It stays on when data is transmitted.

The Printer LED is on when there is a USB or parallel printer connected to the Bluetooth print combo adapter. It is OFF when no printer is connected. It blinks when the print combo adapter is receiving data transmission.

7 Installation

1. Plug the print adapter into the available port on the printer, either parallel or USB. Plug the power adapter into the power port of the print adapter. Turn on the power for the print adapter and plug the power adapter to the printer.

2. From the Bluetooth enabled computer, double click the Bluetooth icon to open My Bluetooth Place, and select Find Bluetooth Device.

Note: This example is based upon Widcomm Bluetooth software, the installation screens may look different if you use some other software.

8 Installation

3. The computer starts searching for nearby 4. Double click the print adapter icon, the following Bluetooth devices right after double click the icon question will be prompted: of Find Bluetooth Devices. You should see the printer adapter icon soon after that.

9 Installation

5. Click OK. The Add Printer Wizard will appear. 6. The printer Properties window should appear now. Select the right printer and then click OK. In this You can rename the printer at this time. Click on case, we use Epson C62. If the printer is not on Print Test Page. If you see the printer start the list, you will need to install the driver by using printing the test page, then the installation is a driver CD provided by the printer manufacturer successful. or download the driver on line.

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7. In case the printer is not printing test page, or you Another way to verify this is to go to the Control are curious about the port selection, you can click Panel, select Printers, you should see the printer on Ports on the Properties window, the correct you just installed through the Bluetooth adapter port is the Bluetooth Combo print adapter port. listed in the printer file.

Congratulations! You have completed installing the IOGEAR Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter.

11 Application

1. Print from a Bluetooth enabled computer

From your application (i.e. MS Word) choose to print You can have up to seven devices (computers or as a normal printer. PDAs) connected to the Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter, it works on first come first serve basis.

If there are more than one printers, select the printer connected to the Combo Print Adapter as the printer you are going to send the print job to. Then click OK. 12 Application

2. Print from a Bluetooth enabled PDA There are various PDA operating systems, in this 1. Turn on the PDA, and click on the Bluetooth icon. manual we will cover Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Turn on Bluetooth by tapping at the Bluetooth CE 3.0. Manager.

Setup and Print from a Bluetooth enabled PDA using Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 Professional Edition.

The PDA we used for the following example is the HP iPAQ Pocket PC h1945.

You need to download and install HP Mobile Printing from the HP website to add printing function to the PDA.

Bluetooth Icon

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2. The Bluetooth Manager window appears, tap at 3. The Connection Wizard window appears, highlight the middle the screen where it says “Tap New”. Explore a Bluetooth device and then tap on Next.

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4. Tap on Device (where it says No device selected), 5. At the Bluetooth Browser window, select Bluetooth and then tap on Next. Combo Print Adapter.

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6. This takes you back to the Wizard window, and you 7. Tap on next, you are prompted that the shortcut can see the Combo Print Adapter is already is already created, tap on Finish. selected as the device.

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8. Now from the Bluetooth Manager window, you can 9. Tap on Start again and select HP Mobile Printing. see that the shortcut is already created. Close this window by tapping on “ x ” at the upper right corner of the screen.

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10. Tap on Start Using the Program in the HP Mobile 11. Select the target document to be printed, then Printing window. tap on Print.

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12. The Print Configuration window appears, tap on 13. Tap on Add in the following screen. Configure.

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14. Highlight Bluetooth and then tap on Next. 15. Highlight Search for a Bluetooth printer near me, and tap on Next.

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16. Highlight Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter and 17. At the following screen, choose the printer then tap on Next. connected to the Bluetooth Print Adapter, then you can either tap on Print Test Page, or just tap on Finish to print the target document that you intend to print.

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Setup and Printing with Windows CE 3.0

Windows CE3.0 and some other older PDA OS do not include print function. The users need to download and install additional PDA printing software. In the following case, we installed PrintPocketCE. You can purchase and download this software from www.fieldsoftware.com.

After you install the PrintPocketCE on your PDA, you need to go through the following steps to perform Bluetooth PDA printing:

1. From the Start window, tap on Start, then select Settings, and tap System at the bottom of the Setting window.

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2. Tap on the Bluetooth Icon. From the profile selections at the bottom of the window, select Serial Port.

The following window will appear, make sure Enable Service is checked, and REMEMBER THE OUTBOUND COM PORT!!

You will need the Outbound COM Port later. In our case the Outbound COM Port is COM port 7. Tap on the OK button at the right upper corner.

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3. For the first time you use the Combo print 4. Select Explore Bluetooth Device and then tap on adapter, you need to create the shortcut in the Next. Bluetooth Manager. Tap the Bluetooth Connection Wizard button at the bottom of the screen.

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5. Tap on the Device section (where it says No 6. Select the Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter from the device selected) and the Bluetooth Browser will list, which will take you back to the Connection appear. Wizard.

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7. You can see that the Combo Print Adapter is selected as a device already. Tap on Next to set up the security, in this case, we choose not to use passkey.

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8. Tap on Next on the previous screen, you can see 9. You can see that the Combo Print Adapter is that the service used is Bluetooth Serial Port. already on the shortcut list of the Bluetooth Select Bluetooth serial port and tap on Next. Manager.

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To further investigate the connection, tap on Tap OK to close this screen. Now if you tap the Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter, you can see the Active Connections at the bottom of the Bluetooth following screen. Manager window, you can see that the Bluetooth Combo Print Adapter is connected to the PDA.

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10. Tap on OK to close the previous screen. Now tap 11. At the PrintPocketCE window, select the target on start, then select Program, and select document. PrintPocketCE as the program by tapping its icon.

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12. You can see the COM7 is already connected to 13. Click on Start Printing. Then select Bluetooth the Epson C62 through the combo print adapter. Combo Print Adapter in the following screen. Done!

30 The Utility Software

The Utility Software

The utility software in the CD is designed to help you to change the passkeys of the Bluetooth combo print adapter. The installation process of this software involves uninstall and reinstall of your Bluetooth stack, we do not recommend you to use this software unless you have some security concerns.

Another limitation of this software is that it is only compatible with Bluetooth device (not the combo print adapter) with CSR chip (Cambridge Silicon Radios), it may not support other chip manufacturers’ Bluetooth module.

After you decide necessity and limitation of the utility software, please go to IOGEAR website to download the instruction manual to use this utility software.

31 Specification

32 Technical Support

If you need technical support, please check out our IOGEAR Tech Info Library (T.I.L.) at www.iogear.com/support for the latest tips, tricks, and troubleshooting. The IOGEAR T.I.L. was designed to provide you with the latest technical information about our products. Most of the answers to your questions can be found here, so please try it out before contacting technical support.

Technical support is available Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm PST and can be reached at (949) 453-8782 or by email [email protected].

33 Radio & TV Interference Statement

WARNING!!! This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause interference to radio communications. This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Subpart J of Part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference when operated in a commercial environment. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference, in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures may be required to correct the interference.

34 Limited Warranty

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DIRECT VENDOR’S LIABILITY FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE PRODUCT, DISK OR ITS DOCUMEN- TATION EXCEED THE PRICE PAID FOR THE PRODUCT.

The direct vendor makes no warranty or representation, expressed, implied, or statutory with respect to the contents or use of this documentation, and especially disclaims its quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose.

The direct vendor also reserves the right to revise or update the device or documentation without obligation to notify any individual or entity of such revisions, or updates. For further inquires please contact your direct vendor.

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