Infinite Peripherals DPP-250 User manual

DPP-250 USER MANUAL
DPP-250
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Mobility Sales/Technical Center: Infinite Peripherals, Inc.
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ipcprint.com

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CONTENTS
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Contents 1!
Legal Notice 2!
Compatability 3!
Technical Data 4!
Box Contents 5!
Getting Started 6!
About You DPP-250 7!
Charging The DPP-250 8!
Status and Operating Modes 9!
Loading Paper 10!
Diagnostic self-test 11!
Diagnosticself-Test 12!
DIP Switch Settings 13!
DIP Switch Location 14!
Memory Switch Setting 15!
Hardware Setup 16!
Memory Switch configuration 17!
Communications Configuration 18!
Dimensions 19!
Bluetooth® Setup iOS 20!
Bluetooth® Setup Android 21!
Magnetic Swipe Reader 22!
Replacing Battery 23!
Developing Solutions 24!
Troubleshooting 25!
Resident Command Set 26!
Federal Communications Commission 30!

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LEGAL NOTICE
“Made for iPod,” “Made for iPhone,” “Made for iPad” mean that an electronic
accessory has been designed to connect specifically to iPod, iPhone, or iPad,
respectively, and has been certified by the developer to meet Apple
performance standards. Apple is not responsible for the operation of this
device or its compliance with safety and regulatory standards. Please note
that the use of this accessory iPod, iPhone or iPad may affect wireless
performance.
iPod, iPhone, iPad touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S.
and other countries. Lightning is a trademark of Apple Inc.
The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth® SIG, Inc.
and any use of such marks by Infinite Peripherals is under license.
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COMPATABILITY
Made for
iPhone 5
iPhone 4S
iPhone 4
iPod touch (5th generation)
iPod touch (4th generation)
iPod touch (3rd generation)
iPad (4th generation)
iPad mini
iPad (3rd generation)
iPad 2
Android Support
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Android iOS 2.1 and higher

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TECHNICAL DATA
General Specifications
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Printing Specs
Printing Method
Line thermal dot printing
Printing Speed
60mms/s (480 dots/sec) at 8.5 V
Print Width
48mm / 384 dots per line
Resolution
203dpi (8x9 dots/mm)
Dot pitch
Horizontal – 0.125 mm (8 dots/mm)
Vertical- 0.125 mm (8 dots/mm)
Resident Fonts
Font А: 12 х24 dots (32 char. per line);
Font B: 9 х16 dots (42 char. per line);
Loadable Fonts
Font C: 12 х24 dots (32 char. per line);
Font D: 9 х16 dots (42 char. per line);
Logo Registration
1 Black and White size: 384 x 248 dots
Input Buffer
128 KB (131072 bytes)
Resident Barcodes
1D -EAN13, EAN8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Codebar, Code39, Code128
2D – PDF417, QR Code!
Communications
RS232 C – max. 115200 bps,
USB v 1.1, compatible with 2.0
Bluetooth® (Optional) – for iOS and Android platforms
Emulation
ESC/POS Continuous paper Mode
Thermal Paper
58mm +0/-1mm X 45mm diameter, thickness 60 µm
Electrical
Power Supply
Rechargeable Li-ion battery (7,4 V / 1100 mAh)
Battery capacity: Per Charge (~20,000 lines)
AC adapter – DC 9 V, 1 A
AC 100 – 240 V, 1,3 A, 50/60 Hz
Magnetic Stripe
Reader
Magnetic Stripe Reader - 3 track unencrypted head, ISO7811 (optional)
Environment
Operating temp. +0°C to +45°C @ 35 to 85 % RH
Storage temp. -20°C to +60°C @ 10 to 90% RH
Reliability
Printing Head: 50km (printing rate 25% max)
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Mechanical
Dimensions
6 (W) X 113 (D) Х57 (H)
Weight
295 g (without paper)
350 g (with paper)
* Specifications subject to change without notice.

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BOX CONTENTS
Your DPP-250 comes with the following items listed below:
DPP-250 Thermal Printer
With Belt Clip
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AC Charger
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1 Roll of Thermal Paper
USB mini cable
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Software: Drivers & SDK
Because of the continually evolving Driver & SDK to support new mobile
devices, Drivers & SDK are distributed online and is available for download at
our website indicated below. For the latest on using the DPP-250 Drivers &
SDK, please refer to the SDK’s documentation.
For the latest DPP-250 SDK’s please visit our developer portal:
http://ipcprint.com/developer/downloads!

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GETTING STARTED
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The DPP-250 allows you to print information from your smartphone over
Bluetooth®. Before using the DPP-250 thermal printer the battery should be
properly charged. The following Quick Start guide will help to get your DPP-
250 ready for use.
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Quick Start Guide
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Step
What to do
Purpose
Where to find more
Information
1
Fully charge your
DPP-250 as
recommended
In this manual
The Lithium Ion
battery pack should
be fully charged
before use to ensure
long battery life.
Charging Battery, Page 8
2
Load DPP-250 print
media (Thermal
Paper)
DPP-250 requires
Thermal paper for
printing
Loading Paper, Page 10
3
Install DPP-250
Software
Printing requires
software to be
installed onto your
mobile device
Printing software is not
provided by Infinite
Peripherals account manager
for recommendations on
Third-Party solutions.
Developers should refer to
the section in this manual on
“Developing Solutions”.
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Setup Bluetooth®
pairing
Set up Bluetooth®
pairing to allow DPP-
250 to communicate
with the Bluetooth®
Bluetooth® Setup, Page 20, 21

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ABOUT YOU DPP-250
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DPP-250 View 1
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DPP-250 View 2
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CHARGING THE DPP-250
The DPP-250 uses a Lithium Ion rechargeable battery pack. Before first use,
the DPP-250 battery pack should be charged for at least 4 hours.
To prevent electrical damage to the DPP-250 and/or battery pack, please use
approved AC Charger only.
LED status while charging battery are shown in the illustration below.
DPP-250 Charging
DPP-250 Full Charge
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Solid RED = charging
Solid GREEN = fully
charged (~4 hrs.)

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STATUS AND OPERATING MODES
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The DPP-250 uses LEDs to indicate various conditions of operations. This may
be charging, active or online low conditions. The following explains this
conditions and LED indication.
Printer Status
Charging
LED
Solid GREEN=Battery at full charge
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GREEN (from left to right) Battery charging
Status
LED
Power ON
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Flashes green-low battery
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It lights in red-end of the paper or paper out. After
the loading a new paper roll, LED turns green
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Magnetic Card reading=lighting simultaneously in
both directions-from the middle outwards to the
left and right.
Flashing green/red-the printer thermal head is
overheating.
BT
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Flashes blue when PAIRING.
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LOADING PAPER
The DPP-250 uses a drop-and-load design making paper loading easy and
trouble free. To load paper, simply lift up the paper cover latch and drop in
the new roll as shown in the steps below.
1. Slide the paper cover latch to unlock the
paper cover as shown in the figure on the
right.
2. Lift the paper cover latch to open the
paper cover as son as shown in the figure
on the left.
3. Drop in the new roll or thermal media as
shown in the figure on the right.
Be sure to pull at least 12mm or more of
media above the top of the printer
before closing paper cover.
4. Close the paper cover until it snaps lock.
5. Slide paper cover to lock the cover in
place.

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DIAGNOSTIC SELF-TEST
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The DPP-250 LF switch/button is used for entering various printer modes.
These modes can be used to assist developers in debugging problems related
to programing and communication. The following explain how to access the
various operating modes.
Step 1. Make sure the printer is OFF (on-line LED is OFF) before performing
Step #2.
Step 2. Press and hold the line feed button (LF). While pressing the (LF)
button, press the (POWER) button momentarily and release when one
of the conditions below:
LF Button operation Modes
Holding LF button while power on for ~ 0.5
sec and releasing it after 1-beep.
SHORT SELF TEST print.
Holding LF button while power on for ~2.5
sec and releasing it after 2-beep.
Hex DUMP mode. All input data are
printed as hexadecimal.
Holding LF button while power on for ~ 4.5
sec and releasing it after 3-beep.
LONG SELF TEST print.
Holding LF button while power on for more
than 8.5 sec and releasing it after the 5-beep
(long 4-tone) beep.
Program mode- loading the printer
firmware.
Holding ON button while power on for ~4
sec and releasing it after 1-beep.
Temporary forcing 9600 bps serial
speed.
Holding ON button while power on for ~6
sec.
Hardware Setup Mode.
Note: Care must be taken when entering operating modes to prevent the clearing of
factory preset configuration information.

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DIAGNOSTICSELF-TEST
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The DPP-250 has a built-in test pattern that shows the
printer’s current configuration as well as the various
resident printer fonts. The self-test can also be used as
a troubleshooting tool to determine printing problems
or battery level. The steps below show how the self-
test is printed activated. !
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• Resident font sizes
• Characters per line
• Text formatting
• Resident character set
• Resident barcode symbols
• Printer’s Configuration
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DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
The DPP-250 is designed to use different methods of communications. Care
must be taken to ensure that the DIP Switches are not changed from its
default factory configuration unless required.
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Dip Switch Settings
The printer has two absolutely different operation modes. They are
determined by the state of switch Sw2:
•Continuous Paper mode
•Black Mark mode
These two modes detect paper present conditions differently. The black mark
searching mode is designed for proper alignment of the starting print position
on indexed media with printed information.
Switch'
OFF'
ON'
SW1!
Enable!BT!
Disable!BT!
SW2!
Continuous!Paper!mode!
Black!Mark!mode!
SW3!
None!
Xon/Xoff!protocol!
SW4!
Normal!operation!mode!
Protocol!mode!

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DIP SWITCH LOCATION
#1 – Remove battery cover #2 – Remove battery
DIP Switch

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MEMORY SWITCH SETTING
The DPP-250 uses nonvolatile memory for storing some of the printer default
configuration. The following table shows the available options.
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Memory'Switch'Options'
Memory!Switch!
(See command reference GS command)
1000000010!
Baud!Rate!
115200!bps!
Auto!Off!Time!
10!minutes!
Print!Darkness!
100%!
Character!Table!
Wester!(1252)!
USB!Device!Class!
Printer!

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HARDWARE SETUP
Memory Switch Settings
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Step 1. Make sure the printer is OFF (ERR LED is OFF) before performing
step #2.
Step 2. Press and hold power (LF) button. The ERR LED flashes red /
green every second.
Step 3. Release the (ON) button in about 6 sec. and wait for the printer
to print out the current memory settings. Follow the printer
instructions to make the necessary changes.
The Pressing LF (YES) – confirms changes.
The pressing on/OFF (No) – cancels changes.
Note: Care must be taken when changing factory preset configuration
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MEMORY SWITCH CONFIGURATION
•SW1: Enable/Disable buzzer.
•SW2: Disable CR / CR is executed as LF
•SW3: Enable/Disable LF
•SW4: LF immediately after CR/ Disable LF immediately after CR
•SW5: Font A (12x24)/ Font B (9x16)
•SW6-7: Reserved for future features.
•SW8: Prevents others from discovering printer when set to ENABLE.
Must be set after pairing is completed.
•SW9: Disable/Enable USB. Allow the use of USB port for
communications.
•SW10: (OFF) set USB as the host mode. Host/Device

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COMMUNICATIONS CONFIGURATION
The following default configurations are used for the different communication
methods.
• Communication with Smartphone
• Via Bluetooth®
• Communication with PC (using windows printer driver)
• Via Bluetooth®, USB or Serial:
• Service mode (changing printer settings, loading firmware) communication
with PC
• Via Serial
*Depending on user requirements can be 1 or 0
Notes: When not using Driver/SDK developer tools, set DIP Switch 4
to OFF.
All LED is OFF
Linea Pro 5 is in sleep or ready
mode
Memory'Switch'Options'
Memory!Switch!(1!thru!10)!
*******010!
Physical'Switch'Options'
DIP!Switch!(1,!2,!3,!4)!
*,!OFF,!OFF,!ON!
All LED is OFF
Linea Pro 5 is in sleep or ready
mode
Memory'Switch'Options'
Memory!Switch!(1!thru!10)!
*******011!
Physical'Switch'Options'
DIP!Switch!(1,!2,!3,!4)!
*,!OFF,!OFF,!OFF!
All LED is OFF
Linea Pro 5 is in sleep or ready
mode
All LED is OFF
Linea Pro 5 is in sleep or ready
mode
Memory'Switch'Options'
Memory!Switch!(1!thru!10)!
*******011!
Physical'Switch'Options'
DIP!Switch!(1,!2,!3,!4)!
*,!OFF,!*,!ON!