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First edition
Chen Weihua
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2013.06.07
1.Some changes about "descriptions
of replace the ribbon" on P11.
Chen Weihua
Lin Yang
Ren Xiaowei
1.2
2013.06.10
1.Some changes about "descriptions
of replace the ribbon" on P11;
“descriptions of Install printer paper”
on P15.
Chen Weihua
Lin Yang
Ren Xiaowei
1.3
2013.07.08
1.Add a statement.
Chen Weihua
Lin Yang
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1.4
2013.10.22
1.Add product instructions.
Chen Weihua
Lin Yang
Ren Xiaowei
1.5
2015.11.02
1.Adjust the format of the manual.
Lin Yun
Yang Kaiqu
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Warnings
This must be complied with in order to avoid any damage to the human body and to the
This is showing the important information and tips for the printer operating.
Note
：
Due to continuous improvement of our product, the description of printer specification,
accessories, design in this manual may slightly different, please in kind prevail.
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Content
Precautions.............................................................................................................................................1
1. Safety Precautions....................................................................................................................... 1
2. Operation Precautions.................................................................................................................1
3. Storage Precautions.....................................................................................................................1
4. Battery Safety Precautions.......................................................................................................... 2
Chapter 1 Appearance and Accessories.............................................................................................. 3
1.1 Appearance................................................................................................................................3
1.2 Packing List................................................................................................................................ 4
Chapter 2 Specification....................................................................................................................... 5
Chapter 3 Method of Application........................................................................................................6
3.1 the Preparation Before Using.................................................................................................... 6
3.1.1 Install Battery.................................................................................................................. 6
3.1.2 Replace the Ribbon......................................................................................................... 6
3.1.3 Install Printer Paper......................................................................................................... 7
3.2 the Basic Function Using........................................................................................................... 7
3.2.1 Power On/ Power Off...................................................................................................... 7
3.2.2 Printing the Selftest Page................................................................................................ 8
3.2.3 Paper Feeding(Manual Paper Feeding)........................................................................... 8
3.2.4 the Use of the Battery and Battery Power Charge..........................................................8
3.3 Communication Interfaces........................................................................................................ 9
3.3.1 RS232 Serial Interface......................................................................................................9
3.3.2 Infrared Ray: IR Interface.................................................................................................9
3.3.3 Bluetooth Interface....................................................................................................... 10
3.4 Other Functions.......................................................................................................................11
3.4.1 Sleep Mode....................................................................................................................11
3.4.2 Paper Near End Alarm................................................................................................... 11
3.5 Parameter Setting....................................................................................................................11
3.6 LED Indicator and Buzzer Definition........................................................................................12
Chapter 4 Other Information............................................................................................................ 13
4.1 Printer Technical Manual.........................................................................................................13
4.2 Preprinted Black Mark Specification....................................................................................... 13
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Precautions
1. Safety Precautions
1) Be sure to use the specified battery and power source provided by our company.
Connection to an improper power source may cause fire, explosion or damage to the
printer.
2) Don’t put the battery into the fire or water, don’t disassemble or modify the battery, don’t
be short circuit, otherwise may result in injury or fire even explosion.
3) If the printer would not be used for a long time, be sure to take off the battery, otherwise
the battery may leak liquid which is corrosive, if improper operation causes battery leak, and
the liquid is spattered on the skin or clothes, please wash it with water, if spattered in the
eyes, please rinse them with water thoroughly and see a doctor.
4) Please do not open the paper case cover when it is printing or just when printing is over, do
not touch the print head with hand or body, overheat may cause scald.
2. Operation Precautions
1) Be sure not to print continuously over 1 meter, otherwise may cause damage to the print
head.
2) Water or other liquid should not spill into the printer, also the printer should not be
appeared in the rain, or else may cause printer damage.
3) Please do not open the paper case cover when it is printing, otherwise the printer may work
improperly.
4) If print with serial interface, should not unplug the interface cable in the course of printing,
or else some printing data may be lost.
5) When print in IR or IrDA mode, be sure the Ir window of the host equipment face rightly the
IR window of the printer, the distance should be within the range of 50cm, and the angle
should be within the range of 30°.
6) When print with Bluetooth interface, the communication distance should be within 10
meters, otherwise the printer doesn’t print or prints rubbish codes.
7) Too high(50℃) or too low(-10℃) temperature and too high(85％) or too low(20％)relative
humidity both effect the print quality.
8) The print paper in poor quality or stored for too long time also may reduce the print quality
even damage the printer.
9) In the black mark detecting mode, the printer requires that the preprinted black mark is
accordant with the black mark specifications (details please refer to 4.2), otherwise the
black mark can not be detected correctly.
10) Be sure to use up the power of the battery before charge it, as it can ensure the using life of
the battery.
3. Storage Precautions
1) The printer should be placed in such an environment that the temperature is between -20℃
and 70℃, and the relative humidity is between 5% and 95%.
2) If the printer will be stored for a long time, pleas be sure to take out the battery, otherwise
may damage the battery and printer.
3) Normal thermal paper can’t be kept too long, if you need to keep the receipt for a long
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period, please choose long term effective thermal paper.
4) The print paper should be keep away from high temperature environment and point-blank
sunshine.
4. Battery Safety Precautions
Be sure to read carefully the user manual before using the product. Ignore the following
instructions may cause battery overheating, fire, explosion, damage and / or performance, and
reduce product life.
1) Do not allow water, sea water from entering or leaking into the battery inside. If the
batteries internal safety device burn, when charging it, it may produce any abnormal current
and/or voltage, and cause any abnormal chemical reaction, then may cause the battery
overheating, fire and/or explosion.
2) Do not use or place the battery nearby the stove or other high temperature places.
Excessive heat maybe damage the resin shell and/or the insulation materials, thereby cause
short-circuit inside the battery, then the battery may be caused overheating, burning and/or
explosion.
3) When charging, use a specified charger Other conditions (high temperature, high
pressure/high current, using the modified battery charger, etc.) excluded here may result in
over-charging the battery and abnormal current and/or voltage, cause abnormal chemical
reaction, and may cause the battery overheat, light and/or explosion.
4) Battery clearly marks with positive and negative. When connect the battery with the charger
and/or printer, be sure to verify the correct battery orientation. Reverse insertion will cause
the reverse charging and may cause abnormal chemical reaction, and then may cause the
battery overheat, ignite, and/or explosion.
5) Do not make the battery contact with the power outlet and/or car cigarette lighter socket.
This may cause high pressure and excessive current, and lead to the battery overheat,
burning and/or explosion.
6) Do not heat the battery or put the battery into fire. This may melt insulation material and/or
damage safety devices or safety equipment, then ignite electrolytic solution, and cause the
battery overheat, burning and/or explosion.
7) Do not use the battery with contrary(+) and (-) Location. In the charging process, this will
cause the reverse charging and may cause abnormal chemical reaction. During use, may
appear unpredictable current exception, and cause the battery overheat, ignite, and/or
explosion.
8) Do not make the battery (+) and (-) contact with any metal. Also, do not carry along or store
batteries with metal objects, such as necklaces, hair clips and so on. Battery internal short
circuit may cause excessive current, and lead to the battery overheat, ignite, and/or
explosion and the adjacent metal objects (necklaces, hairpins, etc.) may be overheating.
9) Do not throw or heavy attack the battery. If internal safety device of the batteries burn, the
battery charging may cause any abnormal current and/or voltage, and abnormal chemical
reaction, and lead to the battery overheat, ignite, and/or explosion.
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Chapter 1 Appearance and Accessories
1.1 Appearance
1.Li-ion Battery Cover 2.Infrared Interface 3.Charging Interface 4.USB/RS232 Interface
5.Function Indicator 6.Power Indicator 7.Power Button 8.Feed Button
9.Top Cover 10.Infrared Ray (IR) Interface 11.Bottom Case 12.Paper Cover
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1.2 Packing List
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Chapter 2 Specification
Model
MPD2
Physical parameters
Dimension
106*96*45（L*W*H）mm
Weight
257g（without paper roll）
Paper roll diameter
≤40mm
Print specs.
Printing method
Dot-matrix printing
Valid printing width
57.5±0.5mm
Dots/line
144dots
Printing speed
7mm/s
Paper thickness
0.06~0.085mm
Copy capability
One original, one copy
Black mark detection
yes
Reliability
1,500,000 lines
Resident fonts
ASCII（12*6，16*8）GB2312（12*12，16*16）
Printable content
English, Number, Symbol, Graph, Curved line, Previous stored
icon
Printing column
24 columns（6*12 dot matrix）
Interface
Wired
USB /RS232(optional)
Wireless
IrDA/SIR/VIR
BLUETOOTH V2.0 CLASS2
Power supply
Battery
830mAh/7.4V rechargeable Li-ion battery
Adaptor
12V/500mA
Printing length
40m（12.5% printing density）
Environment
Working condition
-10℃~50℃/20%~80%RH
Charging condition
5℃~35℃/20%~80%RH
Storage condition
-20℃~70℃/5%~95%RH
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Chapter 3 Method of Application
3.1 the Preparation Before Using
3.1.1 Install Battery
The MPD2 is supplied by battery, please install battery before using the printer.
As in the following figures:
1.Keeping printer inversion and open the battery cover.
2.Install the battery into battery cover, please pay attention direction of anode and cathode.
3.Close the battery cover.
As the picture to get off battery
Notes:
The printer just allows to use battery that our company appoint ,or it may damage the printer and
case battery leakage ,even explode.
3.1.2 Replace the Ribbon
1) Take each end of the top cover in one hand and open the paper cover;
2) Hold on paper to take out of print paper directly;
3) Take each end of the old ribbon in one hand and pull out the ribbon.
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4) Press a new ribbon into the printer;
5) Rotate the button on ribbon according clockwise, straighten ribbon.
Notes：
1) Please use the original ribbon or the admissive one , or else it may cause a bad print
quality ,even damage the printer mechanism.
2) Before installing ribbon , you had to make sure you have taken off the print paper ,or else it will
make you difficult to install ribbon.
We company confirm the following ribbon: ERC-09，ERC-22，ERC-40 are produce by Epson.
3.1.3 Install Printer Paper
In the paper cover have a paper and a ribbon with printer , but it still didn’t put into the printer
mechanism the first time it's used, you should put the ribbon into printer mechanism before
installing printer paper.
The details methods of install paper:
1) Take each end of the top cover in one hand and open the paper cover;
2) Install ribbon by press ribbon into the printer;
3) Rotate the button on ribbon according clockwise, straighten ribbon;
4) Keep pressing on/off button about 2 second and power on;
5) Drag out paper, keep the paper into printer mechanism as the methods of following figures, the
printer will feed paper automatically;
6) The receipt have to be tear after the printing, the MPD2 has a teeth design for convenient to
tear the paper, Please pay attention to the paper tearing angel, using too much power will lead
the printing paper out from the paper storehouse.
3.2 the Basic Function Using
3.2.1 Power On/ Power Off
Press the power button【POWER】，the printer will starting up if it is logged off before, and the
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printer will power off if it is working before.
Please make sure weather the printer is power on or not, if the printer will not work for a long time,
please power off the printer to reduce the power consumption and extend the life of the printer.
3.2.2 Printing the Selftest Page
User can print the selftest page when he got the printer, if the selftest page is printed in the right
way, it means that the printer is work in the right except the communicating function and the
power charging function.
Method to print the selftest page:
1. Power off ( if the printer is power on before)
2. Press the paper feed button【FEED】for a while and the printer will begin to print the selftest
page，and then loose the paper feed button 【FEED】.The selftest page will present the printer
model, configuration of the interfaces, configuration of the work stock and so on. The last column
of the selftest page is “Selftest Finished”, if you saw this, it means that the selftest printing is
finished. The printer will enter to the working situation after the selftest printing.
3.2.3 Paper Feeding(Manual Paper Feeding)
Paper feeding systems can be set up as manual or automatic depending on customer needs.
Press the paper feed button 【FEED】, the printer will feed the paper, if loose the 【FEED】then the
printer will stop to feed the paper.
3.2.4 the Use of the Battery and Battery Power Charge
The battery of the printer is a Li-On rechargeable one, and the Li-On rechargeable battery belong to
wearing parts, so the using method of the battery directly affect the battery life, please using the
battery according to this instruction.
When you will not use the printer for a long time( more than one week)，please take the battery
out from the printer, and you’d better making the battery full the power before you take out the
battery.
Though the printer has the automatic dormancy function and the automatic wake-up technology
function to save the battery power, the best way to save electricity is to turn off the power.
The power of the printer will power after a long time use, so you have to charge or else the printer
will not work.
When the power of the printer is low, the printer will send an alarm signal ( two short tingles, and
the indicator light 【FUN】will turn red and blinking, this is to indicate that the power will be used
up soon. However, the printer will last to working a while though the power is low, but it can’t make
sure the working time, so the printer have to charge. If the printer send out the alarm to indicate
that the power is too low, and the user still not make the printer to charge power, it will continue to
send out alarm signal.
Input one end of the charger to the 220V/50HZ AC outlet, and the other end to the printer charge
socket.
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Power-off charging：LED light will always indicate red color and go off when fully charged.
Power-on charging: LED light will keep blinking in red color, and will always indicate red color when
fully changed.
It needs about 1~2hours to make the battery full charged. You’d better not using the printer When
the battery is being charged or else the battery life will reduce.
Attentions：
1) You can only use original or a dedicated battery and charger for this printer or else will
damage the product, Such as battery leakage or even explosion.
2) Please make sure the battery is been charging last for at least 12 hours or else the battery
electric quantity will not be guaranteed.
3) Do not through the battery to fire, don't put the battery short circuit, break up or heat or
else will lead to battery leakage or even explosion.
3.3 Communication Interfaces
3.3.1 RS232 Serial Interface
The baud rate of MPD2 is: 9600bps，19200bps，38400bps，57600bps，115200bps.
3.3.2 Infrared Ray: IR Interface
IR is the wireless communication interface with low power loss, sophisticated technology and easy
using, is widely applicable to portable devices, such as notebook, mobile cell, palm computer, wince
computer etc.
On hardware, MPD2 meets the regulations of IrDA1.1 physical layer.
When MPD2 communicates with main devices, whose hardware also meets the regulation of IrDA
1.1 physical layer, make the IR interfaces ( from both MPD2 and main device ) right towards to each
other ( angle shall not be more than 30° ), no obstacles between them, the distance shall be less
than 0.5M. MPD2 communicates with main device according to Vir protocol or IrCOMM
protocol( IrDA).
When MPD2 communicates with main device, IR transceiver just change the serial interface signal
into IR signal or change light signal into serial interface signal according to the certain code. Under
this situation, this IR interface is called RAW -IR.
When you use RAW-IR, it is not compatible with IrDA for there is no software using IrDA protocol
during receiving and sending data.VIR is much safer and more reliable IR communication way, for
there is the VIR protocolon the base of RAW-IR.
Compared with VIR protocol, IrCOMM, which is IR communication made by international IR
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Communication on the base of RAW IR hardware protocol, has the wide application.On the base of
RAW-IR hardware, IrDA transfers data more stably and reliably and much easier. IrCOMM is the
subset of IrDA. Wireless communication protocol developed by IrDA, All portable devices
supporting IrDA (such as wince, pocket pc, palm, IR cell phones etc.) all support IrCOMM. If main
device (driving printer) use the operation (such as winge, palmOS) supporting IrDA , for user,
IrCOMM interface is the virtual serial port. If the main device has no IrDA protocol and want to
realize IrCOMM data transmission, the user has to compose IrDA protocol. Please turn to supplier
for more info and to make sure whethermain device support IrCOMM or not. RAW-IR interface, VIR
interface and IrCOMM interface in MPD2 have the same hardware source, so they can‘t work at the
same time. The original mode of MPD2 is IrCOMM. If you want to change IR interface mode, please
refer to MPTTools modification setting. Details in 【3.5 Parameter setting】Detailed IrDA protocol,
please refer to IrDA official website: http://www.irda.org/
3.3.3 Bluetooth Interface
Bluetooth is the wireless technology and support short distance communication (within10m). It
can transfer the data among many devices, such as mobile phone, PDA, printer, note book, wireless
earphone etc. Bluetooth standard is IEEE802, 2.4 GHz, bandwidth 1Mb/s. For more details of
Bluetooth, please refer to Bluetooth official website: http://www.bluetooth.org. MPD2 support
wireless data transmission interface, meet Bluetooth 2.0 regulations, power class 2.
MPD2 is only sub-device, and user need to drive the printer by Bluetooth main devices (PDA, mobile
phone, and notebook). It won‘t drive the printer to print without other main devices.
MPD2 default device Name is MPD2. User can change the device Nameaccording to your
requirements. Please refer to 【3.5 Parameter setting】.
Default Bluetooth connecting password is 0000. User can change the connecting Name according to
your requirements. Please refer to 【3.5 Parameter setting】
Pairing:
Before printing, MPD2 need pairing with main devices that drives the mobile thermal printer.
Pairing process originates from main devices.
Pairing processes as follow:
1. Power on printer
2. Main device search outer Bluetooth device
3. If there are some outer Bluetooth devices, select MPD2.
4. Enter password ―”XXXX”.(see the selftest)
Note: Self test-when power off, please push the paper FEED button, at the same time t push PWOER
button, printer can print the self-testing paper which shows the printer status, printer setting
parameters and printing sample.
5. Finish pairing.
Detailed pairing methods, please refer to main devices Bluetooth Names. In pairing, mobile thermal
printer MPD2 must be turn on.
Note: when pairing, do not set many printers on, otherwise it can‘t figure out which one succeeds in
pairing. Having finished pairing, other main devices (main devices) still can pair with mobile thermal
printer. The max main devices of each printer are 8. If more than 8, the earliest ones will be deleted
from printer paring list automatically. If you these earliest main devices want to drive printer to print
and need pairing again.
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3.4 Other Functions
3.4.1 Sleep Mode
To save electricity and prolong the using time, MPD2 printer adopts the technology of automatic
dormancy.
Printer will enter into Sleep mode if there is not any printing job for sleep time schedules in Ready
mode.
At this point, Power indicator will keep blinking in green color. The machine shouts off
automatically when Beyond the setting time.
3.4.2 Paper Near End Alarm
MPD2 can judge paper status by Paper Near End Sensor.
When paper is out, two LED indicators will keep blinking and the buzzer rings before replace a new
paper roll.
After replace paper roll, Function indicator will go off, power indicator will always indicate green
color and the whistling stopped.
If the paper is out when printing, the printer will continue to print after replace paper roll.
3.5 Parameter Setting
There is software which called MPTTools.
MPTTools is software to set the printer parameters, it used to set the baud rate of serial port,
Infrared mode, RAW-IR and VIR, it also support setting the printer Bluetooth device name and
password.
The instructions pls refer to MPTTools Guide .
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3.6 LED Indicator and Buzzer Definition
There are one buzzer and two LED indicators to indicate the printer status. LED indicators
indicate current status and buzzer indicates the changes of status.
Power indicator
(green)
Function indicator
(red)
Status
Bright
-
Printer is powered on
Flash slowly
-
Standby
-
Bright
Charging(In power off)
-
Flash
Out of power
-
Flash quickly
Charging(In power on)
Flash quickly
Flash quickly
Paper end
Beeper
Status
beep
Power on
beep~beep
Power off
beeping
Paper end
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Chapter 4 Other Information
4.1 Printer Technical Manual
Pls refer to MPD2 technical manual.
4.2 Preprinted Black Mark Specification
If user wants to locate receipt by detecting preprinted black mark, shall accord to the following
specification for the black mark. Otherwise it may cause printer can’t recognize the black mark.
Printing position: black mark shall preprint at the left side of receipt.
Width rang：≥7mm
Height：4mm≤height≤6mm
Reflection rate to IR: <10% (reflection rate to the black mark on paper>65%)
Hps：Hps indicates the distance from down edge of detecting mark from beginning line.
0mm≤Hps≤1mm
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