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. ©2004 IOGEAR. All Rights Reserved. PKG-M0112 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. 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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 transmis- sion. 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. 10 Installation 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 13 Application 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. 14 Application 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. 15 Application 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. 16 Application 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. 17 Application 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. 18 Application 12. The Print Configuration window appears, tap on 13. Tap on Add in the following screen. Configure. 19 Application 14. Highlight Bluetooth and then tap on Next. 15. Highlight Search for a Bluetooth printer near me, and tap on Next. 20 Application 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. 21 Application 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. 22 Application 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. 23 Application 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.