1. Adding a USB printer on my WTC-400 but I don't see the option for USB when I am adding it? 


2. My USB printer will not print - looks like it spools but nothing happens. 


3. Not able to input an IP address for the printer path - we need to be able to do this. 


4. How do I set up my CE.NET unit to do a print screen from my 5250 session? 


5. How do I connect a printer in an RDP session on an LTC/WTC unit? 


6. How is printing through the browser (as well through Office viewers and Acrobat Reader) handled in our WINCE Terminal? 


7. How do I set up my CE terminal to print using RAW via a browser? 


8. How do I set up my CE mail client to print using RAW printing? 

The port will show up as LPT2 instead of a USB port.

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Check to make sure the USB cable is 1.1 as the WTC-400 only supports USB 1.1, not 2.0. Also, make sure the printer is not an LIDIL printer as any LIDIL printers will not work.

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The WTC only supports SAMBA shared printers and needs a name such as \\PCNAME\printersharename. If trying to connect to a network printer put it on a server and share it and then the WTC can connect to it..

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The CE.net print screen functionality is working. The keyboard print screen key and the File|Print/Toolbar have different settings

If you go to the Print Screen configuration page shown in the image, you will see there is a setting for Print Screen menu option and a setting for the Print Screen key.

The setting of the Print screen key is shown below this:

By default the Print Screen menu option (File|Print and toolbar printer icon) are set to print locally (directly to a printer on the COM or LPT ports). You can change this using the combo to print thru host or disable it.

To change this, you need to Edit the keyboard mapping using the Edit button next to the keyboard type on the General page.

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1. Edit the properties of the session or Add it when creating the session, this is done on the “Options” tab of the session.





2. For the driver name enter the name of the driver as it would appear in Windows, i.e. HP Laserjet 3300 PCL6. When the session connects it should connect the printer automatically to the Terminal Services Server and make it available to the user connecting the session. This is only available with connecting to a Windows 2003 TS server and when version 5 is selected on the RDP session in the Options Tab.

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The standard support for printing is through LPT, COM, USB and network printer (which means shared printers). For a customer in Italy we implement the LPR and RAW protocols in order to be able to print to a standard TCP/IP printer supporting either LPR or RAW. This implementation is unique and no one else has it available.

Unfortunately due to a lack of windows spooling system in the WINCE, there are some limitations that you should be aware. First, if there is no feedback about any of the printing errors (such as end of paper, offline, generic errors and so on). Second, the printing process is not initiated as a separate task. In other words, when you print from the browser the entire system is tied to the print process and the resources will not be released until the print job is completed. Using RAW instead of LPR is a little bit better but still until the print job has been printed the Terminal stays locked up.

R&D's suggestion is to use RAW instead of LPR, but still be aware of this lock situation.

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Set the printer up in the standard WINCE Printer Configuration page depending on the application - select Printer Configuration: 

In the Net Path field you have to enter the network printer address path.

To print RAW, enter this "non-standard" command:

//<Printer IP address>:<Port Number>

Example: raw://192.168.0.12:9100

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