SWIFT STP512B Portable Thermal Printer User Manual
- June 3, 2024
- Swift
Table of Contents
STP512B
Portable Thermal Printer
User’s Manual
(Ver 1.0)
NOTICE
Please read this manual carefully before using the printer!
Notice of Safety
Be sure to use the specified battery and power supply provided by our company.
Otherwise it may cause fire, explosion or damage printer, meanwhile, the
battery also may be damaged. If the printer would not be used for a long time,
be sure to take off the battery, otherwise the battery may leak liquid which
is corrosive liquid, if improper operation causes battery leak liquid, and it
paste in the skin or clothes, please rinse it by clean water, if paste in the
eyes, please rinse them thoroughly by clean water and see a doctor. Please do
not open the paper case cover when it is printing or just when printing is
finished, do not touch the printer head with hand or body, overheat may cause
scald.
Notice of Using
Don’t make the printer print receipt longer than 1m. Otherwise, it might
damage the printer.
Water or other liquid should not be spilled into the printer, also the printer
should not be appeared in the rain, or else may cause printer damage.
Please do not open the paper case cover when it is printing, otherwise the
printer may work improperly.
If printer is using serial port connection to work, should not unplug the
serial line, otherwise the data will be incomplete. When printer is using
Bluetooth
connection to work, the distance of communication should be within 10 meters,
otherwise the printer doesn’t print or prints rubbish codes.
Though printer can work properly in the 0℃~50℃ environment, too high (45℃) or
too low (5℃) environment temperature and too high (85%) or too low (20%)
environment humidity both effect the printing quality. The printer paper roll
with poor quality or stored for too long time also may reduce the printing
quality even damage the printer. Under the black mark detecting mode, the
printer requires that the pre-printed black mark is accordant with the
printing rule of black mark (please refer to
details in Chapter 4.2), otherwise the black mark can not be detected
correctly. Be sure to use up the power of the battery before charge up it, as
it can ensure the using life of the battery. The common working life of
printer is:the times of charge/discharge≥300 times, battery performance will
decrease with the charge/discharge times developed.
Notice of Storing
The printer should be placed in such an environment that the temperature is
between-20℃ and 60℃, and the relative humidity is between 5% and 95%. If the
printer will be stored for a long time, please be sure to take out the
battery, otherwise may damage the battery and printer. If the printer will be
stored for more than three months, battery should be installed and charged on
the printer, which in avoid of battery damage of self discharge.
Normal thermal paper receipt can’t be kept too long, if you need to keep the
receipt for a long period, please choose long-term effective thermal paper.
The thermal paper should be keep away from high temperature environment and
point-blank sunshine, please store it where is away from light if it have been
open.
Declaration
This product is “A” grade. In a domestic environment this product may cause
radio interference in which case the user may need to perform practical
actions.
Chapter 1 Outer Appearance and Model No.
1.1 Outer Appearance
*1.2 Model No.
STP512B
Bluetooth modes, USB supported
**
Chapter 2 Characteristic Specification
2.1 Printing Specification
Printing Method: Thermal line
Paper Width: 57.5mm±0.5mm ；
Effective Printing Width: 48mm
Resolution: 8dots/mm (203dpi)
Dots per line: 384dots
Printing Speed: 62mm/s (Max)
Paper Thickness: 0.06-0.08mm
Printable Content: GB18030 Chinese characters, ASCII,self-defined character
set, barcode EAN13, EAN8, images.
2.2 Physical Parameters
Dimension (W×L×H): 106.5(L) X79.5(W) X47(H) mm
Physical Weight:190g (excluding roll paper)
Paper Type: Thermal Paper 58 x φ40mm （MAX ）
Interface: USB, Bluetooth
Printing Head Life: 50km
2.3 Environment Parameters
Operating Temp: 0℃~50℃
Operating Humidity: 10%~80%(RH)
Storage Temp: -20℃~60℃
Storage Humidity: 10%~90%(RH)
2.4 Other Specification
- Paper Loading Method: drop-in easy loading (please refer to details in
3.1.2 Paper Roll Installation)
- Paper cutting method: Manual
- Black Mark Location: available(details please see 4.2 pre-printed black mark manual).
- Printing Control Command: ESC/POS compatible command set (refer to
). - Power Supply: 1500mAh rechargeable polymer lithium battery.
- Low Power Alarm: When the electric of battery will run out, the power indicator will be red to alarm if there is still printing data in printer. After printing, printer will be in sleeping mode and buzzer ‘one high one low’ prompt tone. Or printer will auto power off after buzzer ‘one high one low’ prompt tone if in the sleeping mode.
- Auto-sleeping: the printer will fall into sleep after in 2 seconds without button operation or receiving data , and can be awaken by pressing 【FEED】button or sending data to it.
- Battery Charging: quick charging, it will be fully charged ab hours;
- Battery Duration: under 25% printing density, more than 90 meters; the standby time is over 4days. (These parameters are just for reference. Long term usage will cause the capacity decline, and can not ensure the time of printing.)
Chapter 3 Operation Method
3.1 Using Preparation
3.1.1 Battery Installation
3.1.2 Paper Roll Installation
3.1.3 Others
Opening and closing instructions: closing two side slowly by two hands at the
same time
Abnormal operation instructions: No blocking paper on the paper outlet Paper
direction: Holding the printer in a flat-wise orientation during printing.
Keep steady when running paper.
3.2 Basic function usage
3.2.1 Switch On
In the status of power off, press the power button for one second, then the
printer will in working status; the power indicator will be green.
Notice: when the battery is almost exhausted, the power indicator will be
red, please charge or change the battery if you continue to use the printer.
The method of charging the battery, please refer to 3.2.5.
3.2.2 Switch Off
In the status of power on, pressing the power button for one second to switch
off the printer. All the indicators are off whenever the printer is off.
3.2.3 Self-test After receiving the printer, user can check its current
setting and status at anytime.Switch off the printer (if the printer in
working mode), holding down the【FEED】 button, then turn on the power (press
the power button) at the same time. Then loosen the【FEED】button and the
current setting and status will be
printed out.
3.2.4 Paper Feeding (Manual Feeding)
When the printer works normally, hold down 【FEED 】 button, the paper feeding
begins, and stops when stopped holding the【FEED】button. When the printer works
in black mark mode, hold down 【FEED】button, the printer begins to feed paper
and stops at the position of black mark. If the paper is not black mark paper,
the printer stops automatically after feeding paper for 30cm.
3.2.5 Battery Charging
After the printer has been in use for a period of time, the printer’s battery
power will be exhausted. When the printer’s battery power is nearly exhausted,
if there is printed data in the printer, the printer will give a power alarm
by turning the power indicator red. There will be three beeps; if the printer
is in sleep state, the printer will automatically turn off the power after
three beeps, and the user needs to charge the printer.
The charging method is as follows: insert the mains plug of the power adapter
into a 220V, 50/60Hz power socket, and then insert the charging plug into the
printer’s power socket, The printer will start charging. During the charging
process, the POWER light on the printer will turn red. When the battery is
fully charged, the POWER light
on the printer will turn green. The time required for charging is about 3
hours. During the charging process, if you use the printer to print the data,
the charging time will be extended.
3.3 Printer Setting
Users can set more parameters by using the attached software with printer
〈Setting Tools 〉through computer. The setting includes:Printer serial Baud
rate and data format, black mark, language, font, printing density, Bluetooth
device name and password etc. The setting method please refer to the < Setting
Tools Software Help>, offered with the software together.
3.4 Printer Interface Connection and Printing
3.4.1 USB Connection
The standard configuration of the STP512B printer is equipped with a standard
USB TO Type-C cable for connecting the printer and the host device. The USB of
the printer belongs to the type of slave device (DEVICE); the shape and pin
definition are as shown in the figure below:
3.4.2 Bluetooth Connection
Hand-held device, laptop and other information terminal devices with Bluetooth
can drive STP512B to print by the Bluetooth interface. STP512B portable
printer is compatible with Bluetooth2.0 standard STP512B is compatible with
Bluetooth2.0 regulation and Bluetooth4.0 and power class is CLASS 2, effective
communication distance is 10meters. The initial name of the printer is STP512
BT Printer, the initial password is ‘1234’. Users can change the printer name
and password by using< ST12 Setting Tools> software. Please see the details of
changing the device name and password in help file of < ST12 Setting Tools>.
Before working, STP512B Portable Thermal Printer needs to be paired with host
device, Pairing begins with the host device. Usual pairing steps are as below:
- Switch on printer;
- Host device searches for the outer Bluetooth device;
- If there are other Bluetooth devices, please select STP512 BT Printer;
- Enter the password ‘1234’;
- Pairing finished.
Please see details in host device Bluetooth function instruction for reference.
Notice: If user doesn’t change the device name, during pairing, please do
not switch on other printers, otherwise, it will be difficult to identify
which printer is paired successfully.
3.5 Indicator and Buzzer
There are three indicators – 【POWER】, 【BULETOOTH】and 【ERROR 】. 【POWER】
indicator is red or green, 【BLUETOOTH】indicator is blue and
【ERROR】 indicators is red. The below are the meanings of indicators:
【ERROR】indicator Constant on red lighting: printer out of paper
Red light flashing (twice): it constants on lighting for 5s after flashing
twice, this means over-voltage.
Red light flashing (once in 500ms): red light constants 500ms, then turn off
500ms, this means the printing head over-heating.
【BLUETOOTH】indicator
Blue light flashing: Bluetooth has been connected Blue light off: Bluetooth
disconnected 【POWER】indicator Green light constant on: printer is power on and
in normal status Red light constant on: power of battery is low There is also
a buzzer to indicate various status of the printer. The meanings are as below:
One low one high: power on; One high one low: power off or under-voltage
seriously, printer switches itself off in the sleeping mode.
Circulation continuous two highs: printer at error status
Chapter 4 Other Information
4.1 Command Programming Manual
set, and others such as how to print black mark and locate by it.
4.2 Description of Pre-printed Black Mark
If users use pre-printed black mark to locate the receipt, please be sure to
abide by the following black mark pre-print regulation when print the black
mark paper, otherwise, it will cause that the printer cannot identify the
black mark.
The black mark pre-print regulations are as below:
Printing Position: As the picture above, the black mark should be printed on
the right edge of the printed side of paper.
Width range: width≥7mm
Height range: 4mm≤height≤6mm
Reflectivity of infrared ray: <10% (infrared ray reflectivity of other parts
of the black mark paper is>65%)
HPS: it is the distance between edges of black mark and loading position.
4.5mm≤Hps≤6.5mm
Appendix
The appendix is usage method to set printer parameters:
Setting instruction: Choose setting item through 【MODE 】button. Press 【MODE
】button once, the setting item will go to the next. item and print the current
number value of this item. Choose the setting value of setting item through
【FEED】button. Press 【FEED】button once, the setting value will go to the
next.
Manufacture has right to amend the content of the instruction without prior announcement!