Zebra Technologies TTP 2030 User Manual

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Zebra® TTP 2030

Windows® CE

Printer Driver

User Guide

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Contents

1 • Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Who Should Use This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

How This Document Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 • Windows CE Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Windows CE Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Printer Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Port Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Print Spooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Status Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Control Panel Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

TTP2000CPL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Printer and Driver Parameter Setting and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

CE Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Firmware Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

UI Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Command Line Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Printer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Device Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Setting Black Mark Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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3 • Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Status Light Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

LED States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Status Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Print Quality Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Media Sensing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Black Mark Calibration Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Other Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Contact Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Who Should Use This Document

This guide is intended for use by any person who needs to setup the TTP 2030 printer for use with a Windows CE device.

Introduction

How This Document Is Organized

The manual is set up as follows:

Introduction Contact information, document conventions. Windows CE Driver Installation, updates, preferences, and properties. Troubleshooting Status light description, user interface, error handling,

and fixes to common printing problems.

This manual will be updated from time to time as printer functions and features may be added or amended. You will always find the latest edition on our website at www.zebra.com. If you require information for functions not found in this manual edition, please contact Technical Support for your region or the Zebra partner the printer was purchased from.

Document Conventions

The following conventions are used in this document to convey certain information.

Alternate Color – Cross-references contain links to other sections in this guide. If you are

viewing this guide online, click the blue text to jump to its location. Indicates information that emphasizes or supplements important points of the main text.

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Document Conventions

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Description

APPLICATION

GDI

DISPLAY DRIVER

PRINTER DRIVER

PORT MONITOR

USB

PORT

PRINTER

Windows CE Driver

The following description applies to CE 6 and EC 7. The illustration shows the relationship between the various system components involved in

printing.

Figure 1 • System Flowchart

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Windows CE Driver

Description

Printer Driver

The printer driver for the TTP 2030 is named TTP2000.DLL. The Windows CE graphics device interface (GDI) and display driver perform most of the work involved in printing. At the beginning of the printing process, GDI creates a device context with attributes that are retrieved from the printer driver during a call to DrvEnablePDEV. The display driver, not the printer driver, is used to render subsequent drawing commands that are issued from the application into the device context. Therefore, some drawing functi on s that are present in a printer driver, such as DrvStrokePath, are never called because the printer driver only renders the document internally.

The printer driver converts the bitmap data from a GDI bitmap format into the format that is recognized by the printer. This can include such operations as color reduction to the color space of the printer, data compression, and data conversion into the format that is used by the printer – a format sometimes known as a page-description language (PDL). Then, the printer driver calls the port monitor to send the rendered image to the printer.

Only a small number of the graphics driver functions defined for printer drivers are required in printer drivers for Windows CE. Printer drivers are required to implement only those graphics driver functions that are necessary for gathering printer metrics, setting up the printer, starting and ending print jobs, and preparing content for printing.

The following table shows the functions implemented in the driver:

Table 1 • Driver Functions

Function Description

DrvCopyBits Translates between device-managed raster surfaces and

graphics device interface (GDI) standard format bitmaps.

DrvDisablePDEV Used by MGDI to notify a driver that the specified PDEV

structure is no longer needed.

DrvDisableSurface Used by the GDI to notify a driver that the surface created

by the DrvEnableSurface function for the current device is no longer needed.

DrvEnableDriver Specifies the initial driver entry point exported by the

driver DLL for devices that link directly to GWES, such as display drivers and printer drivers. It fills a DRVENABLEDATA structure with the driver version number and calling addresses of functions supported by the driver.

DrvEnablePDEV Enables a device context for drawing and returns device

metrics for the target printer or display device in a GDIINFO structure. Printer drivers call a disp la y d ri ve r's DrvEnablePDEV function to create and initialize the device context, and then substitute the printer's device metrics before returning the device context to the GDI for bitmap rendering.

DrvEnableSurface Sets up a surface to be drawn on and associates it with a

specified PDEV.

DrvEndDoc Called by the GDI to finish or abort a print job.

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Description

Table 1 • Driver Functions

Function Description

DrvGetModes Lists the modes supported by a specified device. DrvStartDoc Called by the GDI to start a print job. DrvStartPage Called by the GD I to start printing the next page of a print

job.

GetPrinterInfo Obtains information about printers, such as the name of

the printer or whether the printer can print in color.

PrinterClose Closes a printer handle previously opened by a call to the

PrinterOpen function.

PrinterOpen Op ens a specified printer port and returns a handle to the

printer. PrinterSend Sends a block of data to a printer. ReportPrinterStatus Returns the status of a printer or printing op eration t hat is

in progress. GetPrinterStatus Returns a specific TTP 2030 status.

Port Monitor

The port monitor for the TTP 2030 is called TTPPort.DLL. Printing is supported over universal serial bus (USB) port only. The printing architecture provides application programming interfaces (APIs) that are exposed by the Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem (GWES) to communicate with the printer driver. The printer driver communicates with the port driver that sends the print data over the supported bus. Therefore, the printer driver is independent of the bus and the corresponding bus driver.

Print Spooling

No separate printer spooler component exists in Windows CE, unlike the desktop versions of the Windows OS. With Windows CE, spooling or background printing is implemented in the printer driver itself. However, because print spooling typically consumes a lot of memory, limited memory might be a problem. A practical print spooler usually has to implement a complicated compression scheme to store spooled documents before printing .

Status Monitoring

In order to allow applications to get status from the printer, there are two functions implemented:

• ReportPrinterStatus – the default function described in the MSDN documentation.

• GetPrinterStatus – the function that returns the actual printer status (described below).

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