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  • Page 2 About Trademark Corporation names and product names are the registered trademarks or commodity names of the corporation. ＊ EPSON and ESC/POS are the registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation. ＊ Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. - i -...

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    BP-003 User's Manual Important Safety Instructions Read all of these instructions carefully and thoroughly and save them for later reference. The unauthorized operation may lead to error or accident. Manufacturers have no responsibilities for the problems which are lead by unauthorized operations. Follow all warnings and instructions in the manual as well as marked on the product.
  • Page 4 BP-003 User's Manual D. If the product does not operate normally when the operating instructions are followed. E. If the product has been dropped or the cabinet has been damaged. F. If the product exhibits a distinct change in performance, it indicates a need for service. Warning: In order to ensure the printer life, strictly prohibit printing full line and full black exceeding 2CM.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    BP-003 User's Manual Table of Contents Declare................................i Important Safety Instructions ........................ii Chapter 1 Overview ............................1 1.1 Features ..............................1 1.2 Product Model Description ........................1 1.3 Main Parts of the Printer........................1 Chapter 2 Installing the Printer........................3 2.1 Unpacking & Checking ........................3 2.2 Removing the Protective Materials......................3 2.3 Connecting to Your Computer or Other Equipment ................3 2.3.1 Connecting the Cash Drawer Cable .....................3 2.3.2 Connecting the Parallel Interface Cable ..................4...
  • Page 6 BP-003 User's Manual 5.2.1 Cash Drawer Interface........................ 39 5.2.2 Parallel Interface......................... 39 5.2.3 USB Interface ..........................40 5.2.4 Serial Interface ........................... 40 5.2.5 Ethernet Interface ........................42 5.2.6 Power Supply Inlet........................42 Chapter6 Printer Maintenance ......................... 43 6.1 Cleaning the Printer .......................... 43 6.2 Error Message on the Control Panel ....................

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Overview

    BP-003WR, BP-003WN, BP-003WT, and BP-003WF BP-003 series printer is equipped with an auto cutter which has two options for the consumer to select: partial cutter can only cut the paper with one point left while full cutter cuts the paper fully.
  • Page 8 BP-003 User's Manual Power Supply Inlet Data Interface Cash Drawer Interface Figure 1-2 Main parts of the printer (Rear) Note: Please take the specific interface as standard. - 2 -...

  • Page 9: Chapter 2 Installing The Printer

    BP-003 User's Manual Chapter 2 Installing the Printer 2.1 Unpacking & Checking Check the following items in the package, if any of these items is missing, please contact your dealer. Interface Cable (Optional) Printer Power Cord Driver CD AC Adapter (Including User's Manual and Driver) Figure 2-1 Packing items Note: 1.

  • Page 10: Connecting The Parallel Interface Cable

    BP-003 User's Manual Cash Drawer Interface Cash Drawer Cable Figure 2-2 Connecting the cash drawer cable Caution: Please use the appropriate cash drawer. Manufacturer will not honor warranty when using unauthorized cash drawer. 2.3.2 Connecting the Parallel Interface Cable 1. Make sure the computer and the printer are both turned off, connect the parallel interface cable to the connector of the printer, Squeeze the wire clips on both sides and make the cable fixed.

  • Page 11: Connecting The Serial Interface Cable

    BP-003 User's Manual USB Interface USB Interface Cable Figure 2-4 Connecting the USB interface cable 2.3.4 Connecting the Serial Interface Cable 1. Make sure the computer and the printer are both turned off, connect the serial interface cable to the connector of the printer.

  • Page 12: Connecting The Power Cord

    BP-003 User's Manual Note: Please refer to the user's manual for the detailed instructions of network settings. 2.4 Connecting the Power Cord 1. Make sure the printer’s power is turned off. (The pressed down side on the switch with “O” mark denotes the printer is off).
  • Page 13 BP-003 User's Manual Note: The hand-operated installing ways of serial interface and parallel interface are the same. 1) The installing steps of parallel interface for Windows 2000/XP/Vista are as follows: 1. Click “Start” → “Settings” → “Select Printers”. 2. Click “Add Printer”, then a window of “Add Printer Wizard” pops up, click “Next”, then please read the select guide carefully, such as, select “Local printer”...
  • Page 14 BP-003 User's Manual 2. Double click “Add Printer”, then a window of “Add Printer Wizard” pops up, select “Local printer” in the “Local or Network Printer” window, then click “Next”. 3. A window of “Click the manufacturer and model of your printer” pops up, click “Have Disk...”, please click “Browse”, select the path as follow: CD-ROM →...

  • Page 15: Installing Bluetooth Interface Driver

    BP-003 User's Manual Please setup the driver following the setup description in the CD going along with the printer. What’s more, you can use the TM-T88II, TM-T88III series driver from EPSON. If you want to cut the paper after printing, please select the “Full cut” or “Partial cut” in the Paper/Quality page after clicking the “Printing Preferences”...
  • Page 16 BP-003 User's Manual 3. Tick off the option of “My device is set up and ready to be found.” Click “Next” to continue. - 10 -...
  • Page 17 BP-003 User's Manual 4. Select the “BP-003”, and then click “Next”. BP-003 5. Tick off the option of “Let me choose my own passkey” and enter “1234” as shown, then click “Next”. 6. Record the Outgoing COM port and click “Finish”, then reboot the computer. - 11 -...

  • Page 18: Ethernet Settings

    BP-003 User's Manual 7. Set the printer driver print port as the outgoing port and the installation is finished. Note: Every Bluetooth device has its own address. Please reinstall it when replacing the Bluetooth device. 2.7 Ethernet Settings Caution: The network printing function needs the operating systems of Windows2000 or above and the operating systems of Window 98/ME and below are not supported.
  • Page 19 BP-003 User's Manual Button description: Exit — Exit from the software Search — Search printers in the same LAN Assign IP — Modify the IP address and other settings for the specified printer. 2. Search Printer Click “Search” button in the main interface, the dialogue box appearing will begin searching automatically and displays the status, listing a printer in the main interface if found.
  • Page 20 BP-003 User's Manual is noted behind the IP address. 1) Correlative description for IP address settings In order to search and set printer’s IP address conveniently for the first time, the factory default setting is DHCP mode which assigns IP address dynamically. If there is no DHCP server in the connected LAN and printer is set to DHCP mode as well, then it will use the internal pre-set address (IP: 10.0.0.1, Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0) automatically.

  • Page 21: Wi-Fi Setting

    BP-003 User's Manual Check the “Use DHCP” if needed to assign dynamic address, the settings above will be disabled automatically. Please make sure there is a DHCP server in the network, or the printer can not receive an effective IP address. When to specify static address, uncheck “Use DHCP”...
  • Page 22 BP-003 User's Manual 2. Click “Enter setup mode”, then a figure of software as figure 2 pops up. The printer and computer is connected successfully when the dialogue box “Connection is successful” appears. Click “OK”. Note: When the dialogue box “Connection is not successful” pops up, you need to check if the printer is turned on or the printer and computer is connected well with the USB cable.
  • Page 23 BP-003 User's Manual 4. The loaded information is just the setting information of the currently connected printer. For normal use, you need to reset the parameters according to the wireless networks you are using. The detailed settings and description are as follows: Note: Please make sure the wireless network card has been connected to the related router or hotspot before the following operation.
  • Page 24 BP-003 User's Manual Double click Local Area Connection 2 SSID Figure 5 - 18 -...
  • Page 25 BP-003 User's Manual Select the security of the wireless network data. Security Acquire the security as the following way (Take the operation system WIN XP with selecting “Infrastructure” in the “WLAN type” as an example): (1) Click “Properties” in the window of “Local Area Connection 2 Status”. (Get reference in figure 5) Figure 6 (2) When the window of “Local Area Connection 2 Properties”...
  • Page 26 BP-003 User's Manual Figure 7 (3) Select the current wireless network name in the item of “Preferred networks” and then click “Properties”. (As shown in figure 8) - 20 -...
  • Page 27 BP-003 User's Manual Figure 8 (4) When the window of “Properties” pops up, find the security in the item of “Wireless network key”. (As shown in figure 9) - 21 -...
  • Page 28 BP-003 User's Manual Security Figure 9 Fill in the corresponding key of the wireless network. When “Security” is selected to “None”, you do not need to fill in the key. Set the IP address of the printer Wi-Fi interface in the same segment with the wireless Printer IP networks.
  • Page 29 BP-003 User's Manual Click ”Support” Figure 10 (2) Figure 11 displays the IP address information of the current wireless networks. Please find out the corresponding wireless network segment according to this IP address and set the printer IP with different IP address in the same segment. In Figure 11, the IP Address is 192.168.43.120 and the segment is 192.168.43.

  • Page 30: Checking Wi-Fi Parameters

    BP-003 User's Manual Figure 11 Set the subnet mask of the printer Wi-Fi interface. It is suggested that the subnet Subnet Mask mask should be the same with the wireless networks. (Check the subnet mask in figure 11) Set the port number of the printer Wi-Fi interface. 9100 is recommended. Printer Port Allow printer to receive the printing data sent by the target IP (or IP segment).

  • Page 31: Installing Printer Network Driver

    BP-003 User's Manual LED Description Network Infrastructure Ad Hoc WLAN type Connect BLINK Disconnect BLINK BLINK 2.9 Installing Printer Network Driver The ways of installing network driver are divided into Newly-install way and Upgrade-install way according to whether the PC is installed the printer driver or not. If the printer driver hasn’t been installed on the PC, adopt newly-install way whose steps are shown in “Newly-install printer network driver”.
  • Page 32 BP-003 User's Manual 7) A window of “Additional Port Information Required” pops up, select “Custom” in the “Device Type”, then click “Settings”. 8) A window of “Port Settings” pops up. Affirm that “Port name” and “Printer name or IP address” are correct, “Protocol”...
  • Page 33 BP-003 User's Manual 9) Return to “Additional Port Information Required”, click “Next”. 10) A window of “Completing the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Finish”. 11) In the selection of “Manufacturers/Printers”, click “Have Disk”, and then click “Next”. 12) A window of “Install From Disk”...
  • Page 34 BP-003 User's Manual 4) A window of “Printer port” pops up, select “Standard TCP/IP Port”, click “New port”. 5) A window of “Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Next”. 6) A window of “Add port” pops up, import the IP address reported by the “Setting printer’s IP address”...
  • Page 35 BP-003 User's Manual 7) A window of “Additional Port Information Required” pops up, select “Custom” in the “Device Type”, then click “Settings”. 8) A window of “Port Settings” pops up. Affirm that “Port name” and “Printer name or IP address” are correct, “Protocol”...
  • Page 36 BP-003 User's Manual 9) Return to “Additional Port Information Required”, click “Next”. 10) A window of “Completing the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Finish”. 11) Return to “Printer Ports”, click “Close”. 12) Return to “Properties”, make sure the network port is selected, click “Apply”, and then click “Close”.
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  • Page 38: Chapter 3 Control Panel

    BP-003 User's Manual Chapter 3 Control Panel 3.1 Control Panel There are three LED indicators and one button on the control panel shown as Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1 Control panel 3.1.1 LED Indicator Description Denotes whether the printer’s power supply is connected or not. The LED is on POWER (Green) when the power is connected.

  • Page 39: Hex Dump Printing

    BP-003 User's Manual 3.3 Hex Dump Printing This function allows you to check whether the connection between the printer and the host or the terminal device works properly or not. The method is that press FEED button and power on the printer, the ERROR LED blinks once with two beeps.
  • Page 40 BP-003 User's Manual 4. Click “Printer Settings” in the Properties page. 5. Check whether the selected port in the “Ports” is matched with the port which connecting to the printer in practical. Return to “Printer Settings” page layout, the list in the left are the items you want to set and the right are the item’s parameters.

  • Page 41: Chapter 4 Loading Roll Paper

    BP-003 User's Manual Chapter 4 Loading Roll Paper The printer can install the paper conveniently, which should be 80mm wide. How to deal with the paper will be explained in details in this chapter. 4.1 Installing Steps of Thermal Roll Paper Note: 1.
  • Page 42 BP-003 User's Manual Figure 4-3 Pull out the paper 4. Put the paper as shown below, and then close the cover. Figure 4-4 Close the cover Note: After finishing installing the paper, if PAPER OUT LED and ERROR LED are still on, or the printer makes strange noise when feeding paper, please open the cover and re-close it tightly.

  • Page 43: Chapter 5 Specification

    BP-003 User's Manual Chapter 5 Specification 5.1 General Specification Item Description Printing method Direct thermal printing Dot density 576 dots/line (203×203 DPI) Effective printing width 72 mm Print speed 220 mm/s TF50KS-E (Japan paper co.ltd) Thermal roll paper model AF50KS-E (JUJO THERMAL) Width: 79.5 ±...
  • Page 44 BP-003 User's Manual Output voltage: 24 V(DC) Current: 2.5 A Temperature: 5 ~ 35℃ Operating environment Humidity: 25 ~ 80%RH (No condensation) Environmental conditions Temperature: -40 ~ 55℃ Storage environment Humidity: ≤93%RH (40℃, No condensation) Weight Approx. 2 Kg ＜38 dB (A) (ISO7779 standard) Noise Physical dimensions 145 mm (Width) ×...

  • Page 45: Interface Specifications

    BP-003 User's Manual 5.2 Interface Specifications The printer is configured with one cash drawer interface and one data interface (you can select Parallel interface, USB interface, USB interface + serial interface, USB interface + Ethernet interface, USB interface + Bluetooth or USB interface + Wi-Fi). Please connect the printer to the computer with the suitable interface cable.

  • Page 46: Usb Interface

    BP-003 User's Manual DATA8 Acknowledge signal, Low level means that printer is /ACK ready to receive data. BUSY High level means printer is too busy to receive data High level means that paper is out. High level with the pull-up resistance /ERR Low level means the printer is in error state 14, 15, 17, 18, 34, 36...
  • Page 47 BP-003 User's Manual Figure 5-5 Pin number of serial interface connector Table A-3 Pin assignments of the serial interface Pin Number Signal From Description Host Receive data from Host Printer Sent control code X-ON/X-OFF and data to the Host “MARK” state means printer is too busy to receive data; Printer “SPACE”...

  • Page 48: Ethernet Interface

    BP-003 User's Manual 5.2.5 Ethernet Interface Ethernet interface of 10/100 Base-T can be connected to 10/100M. Figure 5-8 Ethernet interface 5.2.6 Power Supply Inlet The BP-003 printer connects with a 24V±10% and 2.5A AC adapter. The power supply inlet is shown as Figure 5-8.

  • Page 49: Chapter6 Printer Maintenance

    BP-003 User's Manual Chapter6 Printer Maintenance 6.1 Cleaning the Printer Cleaning periodically and the cleaning tool Periodical cleaning: every 3 months or every 300 working hours once Cleaning tool: dry cloth (please use soft cloth to clean metal parts) Cleaning the spare parts Clean the oily spare parts of the printer with dry cloth.

  • Page 50: Contact The Technical Service Center

    BP-003 User's Manual Upper Cover Auto-cutter Figure 6-1 Adjust the auto-cutter by hand 6.4 Contact the Technical Service Center If the printer is malfunctioned and you cannot solve the problem through the operation shown in 6.2, the components of the printer are damaged during using or you need to buy some consumables, please contact the authorized technical service center.

  • Page 51: Chapter 7 Control Commands

    BP-003 User's Manual Chapter 7 Control Commands 7.1 General The commands BP-003 supplies are based on ESC/POS. The format described as following: Command Function Format: ASCII: Indicates the ASCII equivalents Decimal: Indicates the decimal equivalents Hex: Written in hexadecimal code Description: The function and using instruction of that command.
  • Page 52 BP-003 User's Manual Transmit the selected printer status according to the specified parameter n in serial interface, 1≤n≤4; this instruction is still valid even though in error or off-line status. n=1: Transmit print status n=2: Transmit off-line status n=3: Transmit error status n=4: Transmit paper roll sensor status ESC BEL n1 n2 Beep for appointment...
  • Page 53 BP-003 User's Manual ESC $ Set absolute print position Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: Set the distance from the beginning of the line to the position at which subsequent characters are to be printed. The distance is (nL+nH*256)* (horizontal or vertical motion unit). Nl, nH=0~255. Horizontal or vertical motion unit are specified by GS P command.
  • Page 54 BP-003 User's Manual double-density 24-dot 203 DPI 101 DPI single-density 24-dot 203 DPI 203 DPI double-density ESC - Turn underline mode on/off Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: n=0, 48 Turn underline mode off. n=1, 49 one-dot thick underline mode on n= 2, 50 two-dot thick underline mode on ESC 2...
  • Page 55 BP-003 User's Manual ESC @ Initialize printer Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: Initialize the printer to the state when the printer is turned on. ESC D Set horizontal tab position Format: ASCII: D n1……nk NUL Decimal: 68 n1……nk NUL Hex: 44 n1……nk NUL Description: Set the horizontal tab position to the column specified by nk from the beginning of the line.
  • Page 56 BP-003 User's Manual ESC V Turn 90°clockwise rotation mode on/off Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: n=0, 48 Turn off 90°clockwise rotation mode. n=1, 49 Turn on 90°clockwise rotation mode. No 90°clockwise rotation for underline in underline mode. ESC \ Set relative print position Format: ASCII: Decimal:...
  • Page 57 BP-003 User's Manual ESC d Print and feed n lines Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: Print the data in input buffer and feed n lines, n= 0~255. ESC p m t1 t2 Generate pulse Format: ASCII: Decimal: 112 m Hex: Description: Printer output pulse, whose width specified by t1 and t2.
  • Page 58 BP-003 User's Manual When the LSB of n is 1, upside-down printing mode is turned on. FS ! Select Chinese character mode Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: Off/On Decimal Function Not defined Not defined Double-width is not selected Double-width is selected Double-height is not selected Double-height is selected Not defined...
  • Page 59 BP-003 User's Manual FS 2 Define user-defined Chinese characters Format: ASCII: c1 c2 d1……d72 Decimal: 50 c1 c2 d1……d72 Hex: 32 c1 c2 d1……d72 Description: c1=fe; a1≤c2≤fe; 0≤d≤255; c1 specified the first byte of the character code, c2 specified the second byte of the character code.
  • Page 60 BP-003 User's Manual xL,xL specifies (xL+xH*256) bytes in the horizontal direction for the NV bit image you defined. yL,yH specifies (yL+yH*256) bytes in the vertical direction for the NV bit image you defined. d specifies the definition data for the NV bit image (column format). GS BEL n1 n2 Beep for appointment Format:...
  • Page 61 BP-003 User's Manual GS / Print downloaded bit image ／ Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: Print the downloaded bit image using the mode specified by n. n=0, 1, 2, 3, 48, 49, 50, 51. The bit image defined by GS * command. n specifies the mode as follows: Mode Density in vertical Density in horizontal...
  • Page 62 BP-003 User's Manual GS V Select cut mode and cut paper Format: ASCII: Decimal: Hex: Description: (There is only one cut mode can be selected if the cutter can only realize one cut type.) m=0, 48; No n parameter, Executes a full cut. m=1, 49;...
  • Page 63 BP-003 User's Manual UPC-E Fixed 11≤k≤12 48≤d≤57 EAN13 Fixed 12≤k≤13 48≤d≤57 EAN8 Fixed 7≤k≤8 48≤d≤57 48≤d≤57, 48≤d≤57, 0~9, A~Z, SP, d=32, 36, 37, 43, 45, CODE39 Can be changed 1≤k $, %, +, -, ., / 46, 47. d=42 (stat, *(stat, stop) stop) UPC-A...

  • Page 64: Appendix Commands List

    BP-003 User's Manual Appendix Commands List Here lists the commands supported in the printer in alphabetical order. Control Commands Functions Beeper Horizontal tab Print and line feed Print and Feed paper to next black mark position DLE EOT Real-time status transmission ESC BEL Beep for appointment ESC SP...
  • Page 65 BP-003 User's Manual FS p n m Print NV bit image FS q n Define the NV bit image GS BEL Beep for appointment GS ! Select Character size GS * Define downloaded bit image GS / Print downloaded bit image GS B Turn white/black reverse mode on/off GS H...

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