Bluetooth dot matrix printer (star)

josevalle · Post by **josevalle** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:12 am

Hello:

I have a converter Bluetooth - Paralel conected to the printer.

I can see the printer in the bluetooth manager, it is asigned to COM7

I have tried:

SET PRINTER TO COM7
SET PRINT ON

? "PRUEBAS"
?

SET PRINTER TO
SET PRINT OFF

It does not work.

You wrote a mail about that but I cant conect.

Thanks for your help.

Jose Valle

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:37 am

Jose,

We are working on a sample of using the bluetooth that we are going to publish as soon as possible.

Basically it has to be used as a COM port.

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:13 pm

Jose,

We have already published a new FWPPC build with Bluetooth support.

Please review samples\BlueToth.prg

Please test it and let us know how it works there.

josevalle · Post by **josevalle** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 11:13 pm

Thanks Antonio.

I will try that tomorrow. With this solved I can finish my aplication only a little bit late!!!

For testing I have buy a bluetooth to printer conector (60€) and I use a dot matrix paralel printer. When sure I will buy Star in 12 Volts 60 cols 600€.

(this is a littlr off topic but this is the only place I know for speaking about this)

Jose Valle

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 7:28 am

Jose,

This is the right place to talk about this

I wait for your news,

Maurizio · Post by **Maurizio** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:53 am

I try with Zebra QL 320 but it does not work

Regards Maurizio

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:54 am

Maurizio,

Was the bluetooth connection properly set before testing it ?

You have to manually do the bluetooth setup.

Maurizio · Post by **Maurizio** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:26 pm

Yes the bluetooth is properly setup , I use it with another programm
and print OK
Maurizio

josevalle · Post by **josevalle** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:43 pm

Hello:

When I use the sample program it does not detect the printer.

Using the bluetooth program I see the printer.

But I can´t print in it.

Using one program form HP I can send a file to the printer and it works

I will test more things but I know almost nothing about bluetooth

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:06 pm

Jose,

BlueTooth works as a standard COM port. OutPort is 8 and InPort is 7.

If you do a:

local hOut := BlueOut()

MsgInfo( Str( hOut ) )

CloseComm( hOut )

then you should see the value of the handle of the port. Please try it and let us know what numeric value you get. Thanks.

josevalle · Post by **josevalle** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:16 pm

Hello

I get -1

Thanks Antonio

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:14 am

Jose,

Could you check if your bluetooth out port is located at COM8: ?

josevalle · Post by **josevalle** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:17 am

Hello Antonio

I don´t have the pda here, but I thing that the output port was COM5:

I will call my client and confirm you that.

The pda is Symbol 8800 with codebar scanner and the printer Star with a paralel to bluetooth adaptor.

Maurizio · Post by **Maurizio** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:02 am

Hello Antonio

I get -1891664022 (change every time)

IN COM 8
OUT COM 6

Regards Maurizio

Post by **Antonio Linares** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 10:13 am

We have just published a new FWPPC build.

In samples\bluetoth.prg, please change local hOut := BlueOut() into:

#define GENERIC_WRITE 0x40000000
#define OPEN_EXISTING 3
#define FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL 0x00000080

...

local hOut := CreateFile( "COM6:",; // change the number as needed
GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, OPEN_EXISTING,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL )

MsgInfo( Str( hOut ) ) // Lets see if we get a valid handle, not -1

...

and change CloseComm( hOut ) into CloseHandle( hOut ).

Thanks for your feedback,