Datamax 7A300007 Rev. 2 Bluetooth Communications, Software Driver Installation, TeraTerm Example

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Software Driver Installation

You must install the USB driver before you can use USB communication on the printer. Turn on the printer and connect it to the PC with a USB cable. If the driver has never been installed before, a dialog box will appear. Reply by selecting "Install from a list or specific location" and indicating the location of the file usbprintercdc.inf supplied with the CD. The usbprintercdc.inf file points to the actual driver called msports.dll, which is a part of the Windows operating system.

Next, open the Windows Device Manager. (Control Panel > System > Hardware Tab > Device Manager) Under the Ports (COM & LPT), you should see an entry named "Datamax-O’Neil USB CDC Communications Port”

If you ever needed to uninstall the driver, you may do so by right-clicking on the "Datamax-O’Neil USB CDC Communications Port” from the Device Manager.

TeraTerm Example

TeraTerm is a free terminal emulator program. Make sure TeraTerm is not running when you connect the USB cable. Then run TeraTerm, select (Setup > Serial Port...) to configure it and save the configuration. There are only three items that you need to configure: Port, Data, and Flow control. All other parameters can be set to any value.

PORT	COM<n> where <n> is the port number where USB driver was installed
Data	8 bit
Baud rate	Any value
Parity	Any value
Stop	Any value
Flow control	None

Note: Select ENTER key on the keyboard to advance paper in the printer and to verify communication.

USB Technical Specifications

Pin	Name	Cable Color	Description
1	VCC	Red	+5V
2	D-	White	Data -
3	D+	Green	Data +
4	GND	Black	Ground

A to B type USB cable

Bluetooth™ Communications

The printer control card communicates with the Bluetooth™ base band interface at 115.2 K Baud/sec for serial interface printers and 57.6 K Baud/sec for USB interface printers, using no parity. To select the Bluetooth™ interface, Dip Switch # 2 must be ON and all other Dip Switches must be OFF. If required by the host application to enter 0 (digit zero) for PIN number while connecting to the BT module. Bluetooth settings can be changed via the AT command set (Refer to Developer’s CD for available AT commands).

The table below details the Bluetooth Datamax-O’Neil default settings:

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