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Adding a Bluetooth Thermal Label Printer to Microsoft Windows 11

hey, I have a cheap, bisoffice thermal bluetooth printer. most of the steps for getting the JK-402A to work also happen with this printer, including the 'Driver is unavailable' message. is there a link to the driver install executable for the JK-402A? I'm hoping if I can get that driver, my silly recipt printer can print from notepad.

I just hope someone sees this message...

gerry
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:56:56 -0700

Specifically, its this one, shows up as PT-280_1E34

If anyone even sees this, can you assist?

gerry
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:00:23 -0700

I figured it out!

here's what I did, I went to youtbe and found a video by Ram Kumar [How to Install Bluetooth Mobile Printer, 2 inch Mobile Printer to Windows System by Bluetooth]

on windows 10, open up control panel. (not settings > printers)
click hardware and sound > devices and printers

click add a printer, turn on your cheap printer.

it might show up as mpt II or PT-280_1E33 or PT-280_1E34, click it and hit next

then it'll want a passcode.
it should be 0000 or 1234, if you got a manual, check it if its not one of those
hit next and the window closes

back in devices and printers, find the newly added printer, whatever name it showed up as.
right click and go to properties
find the services tab

it might lag or load for a bit
these cheap bluetooth printers seem to use COM ports. if you see COM 5, you're doing ok, if you see COM 3 you may have messed up? not sure
keep that window open

now for drivers
your printer might be branded, but the truth is that these come from a so-called 'sticker factory' where a company mass produces these and will put your companie's logo on there for a fee, so you'll see every chinese company logo variant on sites like aliexpress, wish, walmart, and other cheap sites

the real makers seem to be f2c technonogy .com
go there and find their driver page

the one pictured is
CX583
F2C

once you install the driver setup, a window will popup, READ THE AGREEMENT
then once you can select an operating system hit windows 10, if you're using that

under select printer dropdown, get the POS 58 series printer option (POS means point of sale, but peice of $#!& works too)

click begin setup

don't click anything else!

you might be able to get away with unselecting 'set as default printer' but if you've been at this for hours.... just don't mess with anything

if a printer popup with the titles POS - 58, click ok to close it , and finish on the driver setup

now, you should have the properties tab for the [whatever name it was here] printer still open, if you closed it, reopen it

keeping it open, open the POS-58 properties page and click 'ports'
look for COM5 , check the box and click apply and ok

now reopen the pos-58 properties and click test page

it will do NOTHING for a moment
look for a light or a blue light on your printer
it should start printing

if not, you might need to remove all these printers, and start over... I sure had to a few times.

you'll have a windows test page, but if you want to try something else, turn off the printer and press both the power and feed tape button (might be mode or select) press both and it'll turn on and print a diagnogstics page

and viola, it might have worked

TIPS
you're probably gonna get frustrated. set aside time to do this, it won't be as quick as you expect.

in some parts I might have said 'properties' but meant 'printer properties' . sorry about that. check both.

you can configure some settings by Printer properties > device settings, but the diagnogstic paper mentions other settings..... please let me know if you figure out how to change them.

good luck! it took me a bit to find this. I hope this doesn't get deleted because this woulda helped me when I was frustrated looking for how to set these d#@*( things up

remember me.
gerry

gerry
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:48:52 -0700

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