I have a Symbol MC35 Pocket PC, which i need to connect with Zebra QL 420 Printer via bluetooth to Print barcodes.
I'm very new to blue tooth technology. And i don't know how to create a Blue tooth Virtual COM Port in Symbol Pocket PC.
I also wanted to know how to create the bar code from .NET Compact Framework 2.0. I'm using VB.NET as language for development.
Any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Now the answer depends on what type of bluetooth connection is established with the printer. If its an actual bluetooth connection with a Printer service then there is no need to use PCL, you would need to use the Basic Printing Profile with bluetooth. Now this is also bluetooth stack dependant. I think the symbol devices would be WIDComm which does support this profile.
Now to actually using the profile is another story. The best bet would be using a .net wrapper for the bluetooth communication. I am currently developing wrappers but they are not yet complete. http://www.dotnetcore.com/
I have used Franson Bluetools in the past and they are quite decent but cost $99 USD. I would check to see if they support the bluetooth profile.
If it isn't a bluetooth service connection but just a straight serial connection then PCL is the way to go. You can do this by just creating a connection to the device and treating it as a normal serial port.
If the device is already paired then the IO namespace should be sufficient in establishing a connection then use PCL to communicate. I dont know how to create the barcodes, maybe use IDAutomation for that or maybe you already have them. But once you have them I think they are just sent to the printer as an image file (which is just binary transfer) the PCL will give you the definition
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by: idautomationPosted on 2007-09-24 at 12:59:19ID: 19951296
To create a bar code from the .NET Compact Framework, try:
1.
Windows Mobile Barcode DLL for Compact Framework
or
2.
TrueType Barcode Fonts:
Symbol's support should be able to help you with connectivity,
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