SRP-352plusIII ■ Table of Contents 1. About this Manual ........................3 2. OS Environment ........................3 3. Windows Driver Preparation ....................3 4. Windows Driver Installation ..................... 4 4-1 Installing on Windows XP / Server 2003 ................4 4-1-1 Via Serial Port or Bluetooth ..................... 4 4-1-2 Via Parallel Port.......................
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SRP-352plusIII 4. Windows Driver Installation 4-1 Installing on Windows XP / Server 2003 4-1-1 Via Serial Port or Bluetooth 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select a COM port number to be used. Rev. 1.01...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) If you are using a Bluetooth Serial port, click “Bluetooth Stack for Windows” and then select a Bluetooth driver vendor. ※Pass this step if the printer is connected with a serial cable. 5) Click “Next” to install Windows driver.
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SRP-352plusIII 10) Click “Print Test Page” and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally. Rev. 1.01 - 6 -...
SRP-352plusIII 4-1-2 Via Parallel Port 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select a LPT port to be used and click “Next”. Rev. 1.01 - 7 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) Click “Yes” to reboot the PC. 5) Open the printer properties window in the Windows OS. ※ Control Panel – Printers and Faxes. 6) Click “Print Test Page” and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally.
SRP-352plusIII 4-1-3 Via USB Port 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select USB and click “Next”. Rev. 1.01 - 9 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) Click “OK”. 5) Turn off the printer and then turn it on. The printer driver will be installed automatically. 6) Open the printer properties window in the Windows OS. ※ Control Panel – Printers and Faxes. 7) Click “Print Test Page” and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally.
SRP-352plusIII 4-1-4 Via Ethernet / Wireless LAN Port 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select “Ethernet / Wireless LAN”. 4) Enter the IP address and port number, and then click “Next”. Rev. 1.01 - 11 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 5) Click “Yes” to reboot the PC. 6) Open the printer properties window in the Windows OS. ※ Control Panel – Printers and Faxes. 7) In the Ports tab, click “Configure Port…” 8) Match the communication settings to those of the printer.
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SRP-352plusIII 9) Click “Print Test Page” and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally. Rev. 1.01 - 13 -...
SRP-352plusIII 4-2 Installing on Windows VISTA / Server 2008 / 7 / 8 4-2-1 Via Serial or Bluetooth 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select a COM port number to be used. Rev. 1.01 - 14 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) If you are using a Bluetooth Serial port, click “Bluetooth Stack for Windows” and then select a Bluetooth driver vendor. ※Pass this step if the printer is connected with a serial cable. 5) Click “Next” to install Windows driver.
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SRP-352plusIII 10) Click the “Print Test Page” button and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally. Rev. 1.01 - 16 -...
SRP-352plusIII 4-2-2 Via Parallel Port 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select a LPT port number to be used and click “Next”. Rev. 1.01 - 17 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) Click “Yes” to reboot the PC. 5) Open the printer properties window in the Windows OS. ※ Control Panel – Hardware and Sound – Device and Printers. 6) Click “Print Test Page” and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally.
SRP-352plusIII 4-2-3 Via USB Port 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select USB and click “Next”. Rev. 1.01 - 19 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) Click “OK”. 5) Turn off the printer and then turn it on. The printer driver will be installed automatically. 6) Open the printer properties window in the Windows OS. ※ Control Panel – Hardware and Sound – Device and Printers.
SRP-352plusIII 4-2-4 Via Ethernet / Wireless LAN Port 1) Double-click the Windows Driver installation file. 2) Click “Next”. 3) Select “Ethernet / Wireless LAN”. 4) Enter the IP address and port number, and then click “Next”. Rev. 1.01 - 21 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 5) Click “Yes” to reboot the PC. 6) Open the printer properties window in the Windows OS. ※ Control Panel – Hardware and Sound – Device and Printers. 7) In the Ports tab, click “Configure Port…” 8) Match the communication settings to those of the printer.
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SRP-352plusIII 9) Click “Print Test Page” and check printing status. Proper installation of the driver is indicated if the test page is printed normally. Rev. 1.01 - 23 -...
SRP-352plusIII 5. Detailed settings of Windows driver The following detailed functions can be configured after installing the Windows driver. 5-1 Layout 1) Open the Printer Properties window for the corresponding OS. 2) Click the “Preferences” button in the “General” tab.
SRP-352plusIII 5-1-3 Paper Size Paper size of 72 x 297 mm is selected by default, and the following sizes can be selected. 72 40 mm 72 160 mm 72 3276 mm 72 80 mm 72 200 mm 72 ...
SRP-352plusIII 5-1-4 Image Rotation The image can be rotated 90˚, 180˚, and 270˚ in a clockwise direction for printing. When the rotation function is used for printing, device font is converted to True Type Font. 5-1-5 Paper Reduction This function reduces the print image size down to 25% to save print paper. When the reduction function is used, device font is converted to True Type font for printing.
SRP-352plusIII 5-2 Dithering 1) Open the Printer Properties window for the corresponding OS. 2) Click the “Preferences” button in the “General” tab. 3) Click “Dithering”. This printer model is a black and white printing device including dithering function, graphic processing, grayscale print function, and brightness level adjust function to produce a sharper or softer image.
SRP-352plusIII 5-3 NV Image/Commands 1) Open the Printer Properties window for the corresponding OS. 2) Click the “Preferences” button in the “General” tab. 3) Click “NV Image / Commands”. NV image downloaded and stored in the printer can be inserted at the beginning and/or end of the document and beginning and end of each page, or printer command can be inserted before sending printer data to the printer.
SRP-352plusIII 5-4 Barcodes 1) Open the Printer Properties window for the corresponding OS. 2) Click the “Preferences” button in the “General” tab. 3) Click “Barcodes”. 5-4-1 1d Barcodes Windows driver supports one-dimensional barcode type as shown in the following table.
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SRP-352plusIII Detailed settings for one-dimensional barcode Select “Barcode Font Name” and “Barcode Type” of one-dimensional barcode and click the “Properties” button. This width, height, and HRI (Human Readable Interpretation), print position, and HRI Font of the bar code can be programmed from this window.
SRP-352plusIII 5-4-2 2d Barcodes Windows driver supports two-dimensional barcode type as shown in the following table. Set the two-dimensional barcode type supported by the Windows driver in the “Barcode Font Name” field to print the barcode. Barcode Font Name Barcode Type...
SRP-352plusIII 5-5 Cut / Cash Drawer 1) Open the Printer Properties window for the corresponding OS. 2) Click the “Preferences” button in the “General” tab. 3) Click “Cut / Cash Drawer”. Various functions including Open Cash Drawer, Internal Beep, and Line Feeds can be inserted at the beginning or end of the document from this tab.
SRP-352plusIII 5-6 Utilities 1) Open the Printer Properties window for the corresponding OS. 2) Click the “Preferences” button in the “General” tab. 3) Click “Utilities”. 5-6-1 Unified POS Utility Refer to the Unified POS Utility manual contained in the CD for details.
SRP-352plusIII 5-6-2 Special Font Edit Utility The purpose of the “FontControlA” font is not for text printing. It is used to define the printer command, assign the defined printer command to a specific ASCII character, and send it to the printer. The range of ASCII code that the command can be assigned is from 0x20 to 0x7F, and the command can be easily assigned using this utility.
SRP-352plusIII 5-6-3 Journal Viewer Journal is a function to save a copy of printed receipts. Copies can be saved without using journal printer with this function. Journal saves each printed document in a file and the saved file can be viewed by print and search data using this utility.
SRP-352plusIII 6) Select the file to print from the list and click “Print” to print the data stored in the file. 5-6-4 Text Macro Text Macro is a utility to replace specific text with other text for printing. This function can be used only when using Device Fonts and it has no effect when using True Type Fonts.
SRP-352plusIII 5-6-5 Image Macro Image Macro is a utility to support the function that replaces certain text with a specified image for printing. This function is applicable only when using Device Fonts and it has no effect when using TrueType Fonts. Detailed instructions are shown below.
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SRP-352plusIII 2) Click “Add Image”, select a bitmap file (*.bmp), and click “Open”. 3) Provide the name to be added to the Image List, select a dithering type, and click “OK”. Rev. 1.01 - 38 -...
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SRP-352plusIII 4) Click “Add Text Key” and set the image to replace the text key. Enter the text in the “Change-Text” field and select the image to replace the corresponding text in the “Replace-Image”. Rev. 1.01 - 39 -...
SRP-352plusIII 6. Windows Driver Specifications 6-1 Fonts This Windows driver supports various fonts in the following table. Printing using these fonts is faster than using Windows fonts provided by the operating system. 6-1-1 Standard Fonts Printer font Font size (dot)
SRP-352plusIII 6-1-2 Meaning of names of Device fonts. 1) FontA1x2 - ANSI Character code support (Code page 16: 1252) - Font size (dot): 12 x 48 (Double height) - Point size: 17 2) FontA1x2 [Ext] - IBM expansion Character code support (Code page 0: 437)
SRP-352plusIII 6-2 “FontControl” Font This Windows driver supports the special functions as shown in the following table. Select the “FontControl” character first and use the characters in the table to use the special functions. Take care as this function is not for printing general texts.
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SRP-352plusIII Character Special Functions Print the NV Graphics stored in the address 03 Print the NV Graphics stored in the address 04 Print double size NV bitmap image 1 Print double size NV bitmap image 2 Print double size NV bitmap image 3...
SRP-352plusIII 7. Windows Driver Application 7-1 Application with Visual Basic This section contains example codes to control the printer (BIXOLON SRP-352plusIII) using Windows driver with Visual Basic. Sample codes contained in the CD. 7-1-1 Windows driver selection The following example code explains how to select the “BIXOLON SRP-352plusIII”...
SRP-352plusIII 7-1-3 Barcode Printing The following example code explains how to print the barcode (JAN8 (EAN)). 'Print Bar Code. Printer.FontSize = 18 Printer.FontName = "Barcode4" Printer.Print "1234567" Printer.EndDoc The following example code explains how to print the 2-D barcode (PDF417).
Launch WordPad, set the printing related options as follows, and test the printer with WordPad. - Select printer Select “Print” from the “File” menu, and select the printer (BIXOLON SRP-352plusIII). - Set paper size, orientation, margin, etc. Select the “Page Setting” from “File” menu, and set paper size, orientation, and margin.
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