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    P1055866-001 Rev . A Zebra ® TTP 2030 Windows ® CE Printer Driver User Guide[...]

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    © 2013 ZIH Corp. The copyrights in this manual and the software and/or firmwa re in th e printer described therein are owned by ZIH Corp. and Zebra’ s licensors. Unaut horized reproduction of this manual or the software and/or firmware in the printer may result in impr isonm ent of up to one year and fines of up to $10,000 (17 U.S.C.506). Copyri[...]

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    04/14/2013 TTP 2030™ T echnical Manual P1055866-001 Contents 1 • Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Who Should Use This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 How This Document Is Organi zed . . . . . .[...]

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    iv P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ T echnical Manual 04/14/2013 3 • T roubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 S tatus Light Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 LED S tates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 1 Introduction Who Should Use This Document This guide is intended fo r use by any person who needs to setup the TTP 2030 pri nt e r for use with a W ind ows CE device. How This Document Is Organized The manual is set up as follows: This manual will be up da ted from time to [...]

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    Introduction Document Conventions 2 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013[...]

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    4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 2 Windows CE Driver Description Windows CE Driver The following description appl ies to CE 6 and EC 7. The illustration sh ows the relationship between the various system components in volved in printin g. Figure 1 • System Flowchart APPLICA TION GDI DISPLA Y DRIVER PRINTER[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Description 4 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Printer Driver The printer driver for the TTP 2030 is named TTP2000.DLL. The W indows CE graphics device interface (GDI) and display d river perform most of the work involved in printing. At the beginning of th e printing process, GDI crea tes a[...]

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    5 Windows CE Dri ve r Description 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Port Monitor The port monitor for th e TTP 2030 is c a lled TTPPort.DLL. Printing is supported over universal serial bus (USB) port only . The pr inting ar chitecture provides application programming interfaces (APIs) that are exposed by the [...]

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    Windows CE Driver Description 6 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 GetPrinterSt atus This function gets the specific Printer status for the TTP 2030. Syntax DWORD WINAPI GetPrinterStatus(HANDLE hPrinter, LPPRINTERSTATUS status) Parm hPrinter - HANDLE - Handle to the printer status - LPPRINTERSTATUS - The status[...]

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    7 Windows CE Dri ve r Description 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 T ypes of S tatus Monitoring In order to incorporate the way stat us monitoring works fo r the TTP 2030 printer setu p, it is important t o un derstand what happ ens in a kiosk when you print, and when st at us monitoring should take place. S[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Description 8 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Monitoring While Idle In order to get status any t ime a status thread has to be implemented which reads printer status and provides cha nged status informat ion in th e same manner . The following code snippet in C# may be used as a guide to de[...]

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    9 Windows CE Dri ve r Installation 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Inst allation CE Driver Inst allation The Zebra CE driver ZIP packag e includes the foll owing file s: • TTP2000CPL.CPL – The Control Panel that ena bl es users to chang e sett ing s for the printer and printer d river • TTP2000.DLL ?[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Firmware Upda te 10 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Command Line Option The download appl ication of fers a command line option to allow for remote dep loyment of the firmware file and application, and e x ecution via a shortcut. T o create a shortcut file 1. Create a shortcut link file ( .[...]

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    11 Windows CE Dri ve r Printer Settings 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Printer Settings Device Settings The TTP 2030 Settings dialog box controls the pr inter and driver set tings. The following ta ble describes the values and defau l ts of the parameters: Figure 3 • Device Settings T ab T able 3 • Par[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Printer Settings 12 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 • OK – applies the settings and exit s the program • Cancel – does not apply the settings and exits the pr ogram • Apply – applies the settin gs but does no t exit the program • Default – sets all setting s to factory defau[...]

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    13 Windows CE Dri ve r Printer Settings 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Media T racking Media T racking sets Continuous, V a riable Length, o r Mark Sensin g with the default set to V ariable Length. Wh en media trac king is set to Co ntinuous , the driver sends the full page size to the printe r (Page Mode[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Printer Settings 14 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Partial Cut Wid th Partial cut leaves mu lti-page rece ipts attach ed at the spe cified width. The partial cu t width ca n be set to 0 an d between 10 and 60 mm; the default is 0 a nd it disables partial cut (full cu t). Partial cut c an o[...]

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    15 Windows CE Dri ve r Printer Settings 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Clear Presenter Clear Presenter determines if a receipt is re tained , or if it is ej ected fro m the presenter after the timeout. Presenter Mode The Presenter Mode determines if a receipt will be ejected or retracte d when a new receip[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Printer Settings 16 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 To o l s The To o l s ta b enables pr in ter mainten an ce functions. Printer Port setting – tells the driver to which port th e printer is connected Clear Kiosk Presenter – ejects an y media in th e presente r Send PRN File – sends [...]

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    17 Windows CE Dri ve r Printer Settings 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 About The About tab shows the current d river version . Figure 6 • About T ab[...]

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    Windows CE Driver Setting Black Mark Mode 18 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Setting Black Mark Mode The printer is opti mized to detect black marks printe d with IR sensitive ink and ignore pre print in IR blind ink as follows: • 80 and 82.5 mm media – the black marks are centered 30 mm to the right of [...]

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    4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 3 Troubleshooting S tatus Light Descriptions LED St ates Immediately after power is appl ied to the prin ter , a brief self test is performed and th e status light will report the following co nditions: T able 1 • LED States Solid Green 0 - OK This code is reported when no [...]

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    T roubleshooting S tatus Light Descriptions 20 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Three Red Flashes 3 - Out of Paper This code indicates that the selected EOP sensor h as detected no media present. This value is signaled when the mark engine has detected a mark larger than "T OF marker length” plus 5mm, [...]

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    21 T roublesh ooting Print Quality Problems 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 S t atus Indicator The orange status indicator has seve ral functions: • ON constantly – the printe r is operationa l • Flash, flash, pause, flash, flas h – is the warning-code for paper low . The warn ing-code is reset auto[...]

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    T roubleshooting Print Quality Problems 22 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 • The printhe ad cable may be damage d or not con nected properly . • Check the cable connections at t he printhead and the ma in logic board. • Check for damage to the cable. Replace the cable if damaged. The printed image does[...]

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    23 T roublesh ooting Media Sensing Problems 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Media Sensing Problems The TTP 2030 ™ printer default me dia mode is V ariabl e. The printer will remain in this mode until it is change d by the W ind ows Driver . Black Mark Calibration Process 1. Prepare the printer for c a lib[...]

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    T roubleshooting Media Sensing Problems 24 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 The printer will not load the media • The leading edge of the media is no t cut st raight, so the med ia sensor does not see the media to auto-feed it. Cut the paper at 90 degr ee angle to the sides and try again. • The media has [...]

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    25 T roublesh ooting Other Problems 4/14/2013 TTP 2030™ Windows CE So ftware Integrat or Guide P1055866-001 Other Problems The receipt s are not cutting properly • The cutter blade may be worn. Repl ace the cutter blades. Refer to the TTP 2000 Servic e Manual (P1002 903) available at www .zebra.com/partners for instructions. • The cutter tens[...]

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    T roubleshooting Contact T echnical Su ppo rt 26 P1055866-001 TTP 2030™ Windows CE Software Integrator Guide 4/1 4/2013 Cont act T echnical Support T echnical Supp ort via the Internet is a vailable 24 hours pe r day , 365 days p er year at www .zebra.com. For questions on the operation of Zebra equipment and software, ple ase call your di stribu[...]