BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter USER’S GUIDE (For Widcomm Driver) VERSION 1.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME ................................................................. 1 Features ............................................................... 1 System Requirements ............................................... 1 Before You Start ..................................................... 2 Connecting your Bluetooth USB Adapter with PC ............... 2 BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter ................................... 2 Getting to Know Your BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter .........
WELCOME Thank you for your purchase of the BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter. Featuring Bluetooth wireless technology, BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter creates cable-free printing connections between your desktop PCs and your printers. BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter is compatible with all Bluetooth v1.1-certified devices and you can connect your computing devices and printers 100 meters away without cables in your working environments, such as home or office.
BEFORE YOU START 1. Confirm Box Contents BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter IMPORTANT PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS INTO THE PRINTER. 5V Power Adapter Utility CD Manual AND THE SAFETY GUIDE BEFORE YOU PLUG THE UNIT CONNECTING YOUR BLUETOOTH USB ADAPTER WITH PC Connect your Bluetooth USB dongle with your PC. Install Widcomm Bluetooth software driver.
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR BT-0260 PRINTER COMBO ADAPTER BT-0260 printer combo adapter supports two interfaces which can be used to connect with your printer. 1). IEEE-1284 - It is a 36-pin male connector on the front. Connect it to your printer. If your printer hides its female connector inside its case, then you have to open it. 2). USB - It is a USB type A connector. You need to connect one end of the USB cable to BT-0260 printer combo adapter, then connect another end to the printer.
WIDCOMM BLUETOOTH SOFTWARE DRIVER NOTE : Skip this section if you already installed Widcomm driver in your PC. This software is NOT included in our BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter package. We assume you already purchased a Bluetooth USB dongle and it already bundled this software. We also assume you already installed this driver in your PC. If NOT, please read the following messages to learn how to do it.
Step 3 : Select destination folder, you can choose the default or change to your favorite. Step 4 : Click Install to start the installation. If you have not plugged in Bluetooth Dongle onto your PC before, one reminding window will show up to ask you to plug in it before installation can be finished. Step 5 : Click OK to continue the installation. Step 6 : Installation is complete . My Bluetooth Places should appear on your desktop and a similar icon also appears on the lower right corner of your screen.
UPDATE BLUETOOTH DRIVER NOTE : Read this section only if you are using Windows XP SP1 (or later releases). Skip otherwises. This section is a reference topics to tell you how to prevent conflict when installing your USB Bluetooth Dongle in your PC. It has NOTHING to do with BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter which you purchased. Here, we assume you already purchased a Bluetooth USB dongle and it is using CSR technology (i.e. chipset). Plug a USB Bluetooth Dongle into your PC.
Step 4 : Default is : Install the software automatically (Recommended). Please do not select it. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced). Then click Next. Step 5 : Dafault is Search for the best driver in these locations. Please do not select it. Select Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install. click Next. Step 6 : Select CSR USB Bluetooth Device, then click Next.
Step 7 : Click Finish. Step 8 : After these update driver steps, you will see only one bluetooth device in the Device Manager. This is what Widcomm driver really supports.
SELECT BLUETOOTH SERVICES When the first time Widcomm driver is installed, and USB Bluetooth Dongle is plugged to your system, you will be asked to configure your Bluetooth services for your system. Step 1 : Double-click on the bluetooth icon on the lower-right corner of the screen, you will see configuration wizard, Click Next button. Step 2 : Assign computer name and specify computer type, then click Next button. These can be customer defined. Step 3 : Click Next button to configure Bluetooth services.
Step 4 : The default setting is that all services are available, you can check or uncheck one or more services, then click Next button. Step 5 : click skip and then click Next button. Step 6 : configuration is completed.
MY BLUETOOTH PLACES Step 1 : Method 1 : Double click on your desktop. Click Folder on the toolbar. Folder window will appear on left side of your screen. Method 2: Right click on the lower right hand corner of your screen. Select Explore My Bluetooth Places. Two folders appear on the window. They are : Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood and My Device. Step 2 : Click Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood to search for devices available to you.
You also may start a search for devices by clicking Bluetooth from the toolbar. Step 3 : In this example, One Bluetooth printer device is found in your Bluetooth neighborhood. This is the service we want to know. We will look at it later. The “My Bluetooth Places” program provides an easy way to find different application services through Bluetooth connections. A variety of Bluetooth services and explanations can be found in the “Help” file of the “My Bluetooth Places” program.
ADD LOCAL PRINTER In the following example, we assume a BT-0260 printer combo adapter (with series# : BT-PRT-B0A351) is connected to an EPSON Stylus C61 printer. Step 1 : From My Bluetooth Places, right click on BT-0260 printer combo adapter folder (with series# : BT-PRTB0A351), then select OK to install a printer driver for it. Step 2 : Add Printer Wizard will show up, find the brand name and model number of the printer driver you want this BT-0260 printer adapter to use.
DISABLE BIDIRECTIONAL SUPPORT From Ports page, there is a check box - Enable bidirectional support. This feature allows computer to talk with printer bidirectionally. Because some functions are not supported by Bluetooth, if enabling this feature, some printers may stay at wait state for one minute after printing is done. We recommend user to unmark or disable bidirectional support. Click OK to complete the installation.
START PRINTING Click My Computer icon on the desktop screen, select Control Panel, select Printers and Faxes, then you can find a Bluetooth Printer is there : EPSON Stylus C61 Series. Print a file by using BT-0260 combo printer adapter is quite straigth forward, it is just like the normal way you are printing a file. For EPSON Stylus C61 Series : When page range and number of copies screen prompts, select EPSON Stylus C61 Series printer, then click OK.
CHANGE PRINTER In your home or office, there may be two or three different printers coming from different brands. In previous example, we selected EPSON Stylus C61 color printer as our bluetooth printer. If you want to change it to another printer, such as EPSON Stylus Photo 830U, then you shall know how to change printer driver to a different one. Step 1 : Select Control Panel . Select Printers and Faxes. Right click on EPSON Stylus C61 Series printer icon. Click on Properties.
Step 3 : From Advanced page, try to find the driver of EPSON Stylus Photo 830U. If there is an EPSON Stylus Photo 830U driver installed before, select it and click OK to complete the change. If there is none, click New Driver and follow the instructions to install it. Once New Driver is selected, this screen will prompt to ask you to install new driver step by step. Step 4 : From Ports page, please unmark or disable bidirectional support.
MULTIPLE BT-0260 PRINTER COMBO ADAPTERS Previous sections talk about how to do a printing job with a BT-0260 printer combo adapter. This section is talking about when multiple adapters are installed in your office, how to configure each adapter before printing ? Supposed there are three BT-0260 printer combo adapters, two of them are connected to two EPSON Stylus C61 printers and one is connected to an EPSON Stylus Photo 830U printer separately.
1. Configuring the first BT-0260 Printer Adapter Connect the first BT-0260 printer combo adapter to an EPSON Stylus C61 printer. Step 1 : From My Bluetooth Places, right click on the first BT-0260 printer combo adapter folder (with series# : BT-PRT-B0A351), then select OK to install a printer driver for it. Step 2 : Add Printer Wizard will show up, find the brand name and model number of the printer you want this BT-0260 printer adapter to use.
2. Configuring the second BT-0260 Printer Adapter Connect the second BT-0260 printer combo adapter to another EPSON Stylus C61 printer. Step 1 : From My Bluetooth Places, right click on the second BT-0260 printer combo adapter folder (with series# : BTPRT-B0A352), then select OK to install a printer driver for it. Step 2 : Add Printer Wizard will show up, select EPSON Stylus C61 as the printer, because its driver was installed before, so just click OK to continue.
3. Configuring the third BT-0260 Printer Adapter Connect the third BT-0260 printer combo adapter to an EPSON Stylus Photo 830U printer. Step 1 : From My Bluetooth Places, right click on the third BT-0260 printer combo adapter folder (with series# : BT-PRT-B0A353), then select OK to install a printer driver for it. Step 2 : Add Printer Wizard will show up, select EPSON Stylus Photo 830U as the printer, supposed its driver has been installed before, so just click OK to continue.
Step 4 : From Ports page, you can see three printer ports are used : 1. BT-PRT-B0A351. 2. BT-PRT-B0A352. 3. BT-PRT-B0A353. They are functioning the same as the original LPT1: printer port of your PC. The difference is LPT1: is for cable conenction, while these three Bluetooth printer ports are used for wireless connections. Please unmark or disable bidirectional support. Click OK to complete the installation.
Start Printing : Print a file by using BT-0260 combo printer adapter is quite straigth forward, it is just like the normal way you are printing a file. For EPSON Stylus C61 (Sales_Dept) : When page range and number of copies screen prompts, select EPSON Stylus C61 (Sales_Dept) printer, then click OK. For EPSON Stylus C61 (RD_Dept) : When page range and number of copies screen prompts, select EPSON Stylus C61 (RD_Dept) printer, then click OK.
Change Printer : Step 1 : Select Control Panel . Select Printers and Faxes. Right click on printer EPSON Stylus C61 Series (Sales_Dept) icon. Click on Properties. Step 2 : You can change printer name to such as : EPSON Stylus COLOR 680 (Sales_Dept).
Step 3 : Click on Advanced tab to see if the driver of EPSON Stylus COLOR 680 has been installed before. If yes, click OK to complete the change. If not, click New Driver and follow the instructions to install it. If New Driver is selected, this screen will prompt to instruct you to install new driver step by step. Step 4 : When instalation of new printer driver is complete, the Printers and Faxes screen will look like this. EPSON Stylus COLOR 680 (Sales_Dept). is coming out as the new printer.
PRINTER ERROR MESSAGE There are some conditions which will stop the printing process : 1. INKs 100% run out. 2. Paper Jam. 3. Printer is BUSY. 4. Printer is not turned on. When the above conditions occurred, PC will pop out a failed to print message on the screen one minute later. User can clean the problem and continue the printing after. INKs run out Paper Jam Printer BUSY - Replace new INKs for your printer. Remove jamed paper. Check if there is any error in feeding paper to the printer.
CANCEL PRINTING JOB 1. Start 2. Printing job in process. 3. Printing job has error. Double click on printer icon to read the message. 4. Error message. 5. Right click on the file being printed, and select Cancel to stop it. RESET HANGED BLUETOOTH If there is any Bluetooth operation hanged, you can use the following steps to clean it. Right click on green Bluetooth icon on lower-right corner of your screen. Select Stop the Bluetooth Device.
APPENDIX A Specifications : Product Name Model Name Certification Standard Frequency Band Spread Spectrum Services Supported Data Rate RF Output Power Antenna Working Distance Sensitivity Input Power I/O Interface LED Indicators BT-0260 Printer Combo Adapter BT-0260 FCC, CE, BQB Bluetooth v1.1 2.4~2.4835GHz unlicensed ISM band FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum) SPP and HCRP print services 1 Mbps 10 dBm typical Embedded PCB antenna Up to 100 meters in free space <-88dBm at < 0.1% BER 7.
APPENDIX B Safety Guide : Read and follow all instructions and warnings provided. Save these instructions for future use. When service or replacement of parts is required, ensure work is done by a qualified technician. Do not use this unit near water or in a rainy/moist environment. Use supplied cables only. Do not attempt to service this product yourself. Doing so will expose you to various hazards including dangerous voltage.
FCC COMPLIANCE Mobile of end product Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
One Year Limited Warranty This device is guaranteed against manufacturing defects for one full year from the original date of purchase. This warranty is valid at the time of purchase and is non-transfer able. This warranty must be presented to the service facility before any repair can be made. Sales slip or other authentic evidence is required to validate warranty. Damage caused by accident, misuse, abuse, improper storage, and/or uncertified repairs is not covered by this warranty.
