Printing directly from the Palm OS requires printing support from a third party accessory printing utility. Pentax is pleased to provide you a 30-day trial version of PalmPrint by Stevens Creek Software. This trial version can be found on the Pentax Driver CD that came with your printer and downloaded here. Please contact Stevens Creek Software at www.stevenscreek.com to purchase software.

Product Support
PalmPrint supports the PocketJet 3 or PocketJet 3Plus printers with ALL versions of Palm OS including Palm OS5.

Printing Support

• Standard Support for the following PIM applications
  • Palm MemoPad
  • Address Book
  • DateBook
  • ToDo list
  • Expense
  • Mail
  • iMessenger
• Clipboard contents (This allows printing from any application document that supports copying data to the Palm OS Clipboard)
• Emails from the Eudora email Application
• Optional support for printing standard “Doc” files via the DocPrint plug-in
• Printing Support for PalmPrint has been built-in to more than four-dozen applications (See the list on the PalmPrint website at www.stevenscreeksoftware.com)
• Choice to choose from 7 built-in printer fonts (see font details listed below)
• Automatic word wrap
• Control of page sizes (number of lines per page and characters per line) and margins (left/right, top/bottom)

Font Details
The PocketJet 3/3Plus printer has built-in printer fonts. When using PalmPrint the built-in printer fonts will map to the PalmPrint fonts in the following way:

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Palm Device

• Wireless printing with built-in IrDA. Note: Required Baud rate setting is 115200

Printing from applications that are not Palm PIM applications
Many applications, that are not PIM applications, can be printed either through the Doc printing support or by copying to the clipboard.

Direct application printing support is a function of the software package. All requests to have printing supported directly from a specific software package must be made directly to the software company. If printing is not listed as being supported on the software packaging, call the software support line and make a request for printing functions to be added.

Note: Stevens Creek provides a tool kit that is available to application developers that will allow them to embed print-enabled Palm OS directly from the software applications. Software developers are encouraged to print-enable their application by contacting Stevens Creek at www.stevenscreek.com for a developer’s tool kit.

PocketJet 3/3Plus - Printing from a Symbian EPOC Device

Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Psion, Samsung Electronics, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Among the primary goals of this consortium is to provide a standard operating system and development tools for use with data-enabled cell phones or PDA devices. The Operating System used by the Symbian devices is commonly referred to as EPOC32 for use with the Psion Series 5 and later machines. Various revisions of the EPOC operating system are commonly referred to as ERx, where “x” is the version number.

• ER5 devices are primarily PDA’s which may include devices such as the revo, revo Plus, series 7, series 5mx and netbook.
• ER6 devices include devices such as the Nokia 92xx communicator phones.

Pentax Symbian print drivers for EPOC ER5 and ER6 support both the Pentax PocketJet 3 and PocketJet 3Plus printers. They can be found on the CD that came with your printer or downloaded here.

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the EPOC Device

• EPOC devices are supported with the built-in IrDA on the PocketJet 3/3Plus

Note: Please contact Pentax Technical Support (1-800-877-0155) for information on printing from Series 60 or UIQ devices.

Confused by the terms “Windows Mobile”, “Handheld PCs”, “Pocket PCs”, and “Windows CE”? “Window Mobile “ is the brand name Microsoft uses for the operating system and software it developed for handheld devices. Windows Mobile sits on top of the Windows CE core embedded operating system. The Windows Mobile OS and applications are “embedded” programs, which means that Microsoft licenses them to companies that manufacture the handheld, such as Dell, Toshiba or Hewlett-Packard. The paragraphs below define the different device types, and how to enable printing from each of them.

Defining the Devices and Printing Support

Handheld PC
From the beginning, Microsoft’s operating system for mobile devices was called “Windows CE” and the first device released using this OS was called a “Handheld PC”. They were “mininotebook” computers with a clam-shell design and a small keyboard. The original models of the Handheld PC came with a built-in suite of Microsoft applications similar to those found on the Pocket PC,(see below) but modified to take advantage of the different screen size and the keyboard input.

Handheld PCs are still available through Itronix, NEC, Psion Teklogix, and other vendors. A few models still come with the suite of Microsoft applications mentioned above. But some of the newer Handheld PCs based on the Windows CE.NET Version 4.2 operating system do not.

• Handheld PC Windows CE Print Driver Availability
  Pentax® provides a driver for Windows CE and Window CE.NET Handheld PC devices. This driver supports both the Pentax PocketJet® 3 and PocketJet® 3Plus printers. The driver is located on the CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here.

Note: Field Software also offers a variety of printing options for the Handheld PC Windows CE. Please visit them at www.fieldsoftware.com for more information.

Pocket PC
Pocket PC is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) that fits in the palm of your hand and is powered by a rechargeable battery that allows the user to use the device for at least a full day (in most situations) before recharging. Information is entered into the pocket PC with a small pen-like “stylus” which is used with the color “touch screen”. The Pocket PC was originally introduced in April of 2000. The Pocket PC is based on Windows Mobile for Pocket PC software, which includes the Pocket PC operating system along with productivity and entertainment software, and set up/configuration utilities, all from Microsoft. Different manufacturers develop Pocket PCs, but they all have many similarities.

Pocket PC Phone Edition
Pocket PC Phone Edition is a Pocket PC with a mobile phone built into it that allows the user to make phone calls and connect to wireless data services. In addition to standard Pocket PC applications, the built-in software includes a dialer application that supports the mobile phone capability.

• Pocket PC Print Application Availability
  The Pocket PC Windows Mobile (built on Windows CE OS) does not provide printing capability directly from the integrated applications and requires printing support from a third party accessory printing utility. Pentax is pleased to inform you that the Pentax PocketJet printer family is supported by a number of accessory printing utility products provided by Field Software.

Pentax has partnered with Field Software to provide a free trial version of each of the accessory printing utilities provided by Field Software. Trial versions of the software can be found on the Pentax Driver CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here. Pentax would like to encourage PocketJet owners to try each of the “trial” versions before deciding what printing application best fits their printing needs.

Application Overview for Pocket PC

• Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Pocket PC Device
  Field Software provides full support to wireless printing provided by PocketJet 3/3Plus built-in IrDA.
  
  
• Printing from Non-integrated Application Packages
  Many applications can be enabled to print by using the PocketClipPrint application after first copying TEXT or BITMAP data to the clipboard from the application.

Smartphone

The Smartphone is a mobile phone with built in PDA functions. The Smartphone looks and functions like a mobile phone, but includes PDA functionality similar to the Pocket PC but optimized for Smartphone format.

• Smartphone Print Application Availability
  The Smartphone Windows Mobile (built on Windows CE OS) does not provide printing capability directly from the integrated applications and requires printing support from a third party accessory printing utility. Pentax is pleased to inform you that the Pentax PocketJet printer family is supported by a number of accessory printing utility products provided by Field Software.

Pentax has partnered with Field Software to provide a free trial version of each of the accessory printing utilities provided by Field Software. Trial versions of the software can be found on the CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here.

There are currently two versions of the Windows Mobile platform for Smartphones: Smartphone 2002, the original Smartphone, and Windows Mobile 2003, which includes improvements to Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, “always on” data, and native Bluetooth support.

• Application Overview for Smartphone
  

  Application	Application Description	Trial Period
  SmartPhonePrint 2002 www.fieldsoftware.com	Printing for Windows Mobile Smartphone. Print email, contacts, tasks and calendar fieldsoftware.com	15 Days
  SmartPhonePrint 2003 www.fieldsoftware.com	Printing for Windows Mobile Smartphone. Print email, contacts, tasks and calendar	15 Days

  
  
• Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Pocket PC Device
  Field Software provides full support with wireless printing provided by the PocketJet 3/3Plus builtin IrDA.

Direct Application Printing

Direct application printing support is a function of the software package. All requests to have printing supported directly from a specific software package must be made directly to the software company. If printing is not listed as being supported on the software packaging, call the software support line and make a request for printing functions to be added. Software developers are encouraged to print-enable their application by contacting Field Software for a developer’s tool kit.

Note: Pocket PC 2002 (and higher) has support for printer driver architecture through Windows CE. This will NOT alleviate the need to use Field Software for the integrated software application however, it does allow third party software developers to build printing into their application by using Windows CE. The Pentax Windows CE driver must be installed on the Pocket PC when printing from a third party software application that takes advantage of the printer driver architecture (Windows CE).

Pentax provides a Mac driver that supports printing to the PocketJet 200, II, 3 and 3Plus printers with Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2.8), Mac OS X Panther (10.3.5 or later). The driver can be found on the CD that came with your printer or you can download it here.

For Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2.8), ESP Ghostscript should be installed. Due to a bug in Mac OS X Jaguar, certain "carbon" applications will not produce any output when printing with the PocketJet driver (or any CUPS-raster driver). Installing ESP Ghostscript will work around this bug. ESP Ghostscript is distributed as a separate installer package and should have been included with the PocketJet installer. Mac OS X Jaguar users should install ESP Ghostscript first, and then install the PocketJet driver.

For Mac OS X Panther (and later) no additional software is required.

A user-friendly interface as well as a Mac OS User Guide for the PocketJet family of printers is provided with the driver.

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet Using a Mac OS X Device
The PocketJet 3 and 3Plus each have a built-in USB port. Plug the small end of the USB cable into the printer and plug the wider end of the cable into an open USB port on the Mac. The PocketJet II and 200 have a optional USB adapters that are sold separately.

Pentax supports 2 solutions for Linux--LPD and CUPS. Each solution supports printing to the PocketJet 200, II, 3, and 3Plus printers.

These drivers were developed in accordance with the GNU General Public License. All source code used to build the drivers and utility programs is included in each driver package, allowing them to be freely modified to match a different Linux-based target platform, such as embedded Linux systems with PowerPC processors..

The drivers can be found on the CD that came with your printer or you can download them here.

Only one spooler may be running at one time. So, you should choose only one of these solutions and stick with it. However, RedHat 9.0 and likely other Linux distributions provide a means to switch between CUPS and LPRing pretty easily. So, it is possible to install both drivers onto the same computer and try them both out and decide which one you prefer.

1) LPD/LPRing Solution

LPD is the "Line Printer Daemon". It is an old-but-reliable standard print spooler available on most Linux and Unix systems.

This solution includes a GUI program ("PocketJet Control Center", or "PJCC") which will allow installing the driver, configuring the printer(s) for use with the LPD/LPRing spooler, and specifying printer settings. This PJCC program is distributed as a "StarPack", so it includes everything needed to get started.

This solution may be used stand-alone at the command line, if desired, in which case the LPD spooler is not used. This makes it useful for developing an embedded-Linux printing system which may not have a spooler installed.

This driver will print either PostScript, PBM, or Text-only data. PostScript printing requires the existence of GhostScript. Text-only data mode is supported ONLY with the PocketJet 3/3Plus printers; text-mode is very convenient if trying to print out text files from the command line.

2) CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) Solution

CUPS is a relatively new printing architecture. In fact, Macintosh selected this spooler architecture for use with their OSX operating system. This solution is actually the same solution as for Mac OSX. It requires that the CUPS printing system is installed and functional. It cannot be used standalone at the command line like the LPD solution. The CUPS solution is a bit more difficult to install, but it may print graphic and website data faster than the LPD solution, and it provides a some additional imaging features, such as "Mirror" and "Negative" printing.

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet Using a Linux Device

• The PocketJet 3 and PocketJet 3Plus each have a built-in USB and IRDA ports. The PocketJet II and 200 have optional Parallel cable or USB, Serial, or Infrared adapter cables that are sold separately.
• NOTE: It is our understanding that the CUPS solution will not work with IRDA since this requires a functional IRDA "backend" filter, which is still in development by the folks at CUPS.

Printing directly from the Palm OS requires printing support from a third party accessory printing utility. Pentax is pleased to provide you a 30-Day trial version of PalmPrint by Stevens Creek Software. This trial version can be found on the Pentax Driver CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here. Please contact Stevens Creek Software at www.stevenscreek.com to purchase software.

Product Support
PalmPrint supports the PocketJet® 200 printer with ALL versions of Palm OS including Palm OS5.

Printing Support

• Standard Support for the following PIM applications
  • Palm MemoPad
  • Address Book
  • DateBook
  • ToDo list
  • Expense
  • Mail
  • iMessenger
• Clipboard contents (This allows printing from any application document that supports copying data to the Palm OS Clipboard)
• Emails from the Eudora email Application
• Optional support for printing standard “Doc” files via the DocPrint plug-in
• Printing Support for PalmPrint has been built-in to more than four-dozen applications (See the list on the PalmPrint website at www.stevenscreek.com)
• Choice of fonts (Courier, Times and Helvetica in front sizes of 9, 10 and 12 point)
• Automatic word wrap
• Control of page sizes (number of lines per page and characters per line) and margins (left/right, top/bottom)

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Palm Device

• Wireless printing with the Pentax IR (Infrared) offering (Part number 203440 at the baud rate of 115200)
  
  
• The Pentax serial offering (Part number 203236 at the baud rate of 57600) is intended to connect to the “Hotsync” cable or the cradle supplied with the device.
  
  
• Bluetooth printing using a third party Bluetooth module with the Pentax Bluetooth Module Adapter Cable (Part number 205378).

Printing from applications that are not Palm PIM applications
Many applications that are not PIM applications can be printed either through the Doc printing support or by copying to the clipboard.

Direct application printing support is a function of the software package. All requests to have printing supported directly from a specific software package must be made directly to the software company. If printing is not listed as being supported on the software packaging, call the software support line and make a request for printing functions to be added.

Note: Stevens Creek provides a tool kit that is available to application developers that will allow them to embed print-enabled Palm OS directly from the software applications. Software developers are encouraged to print-enable their application by contacting Stevens Creek at www.stevenscreek.com for a developer’s tool kit.

SIBO operating system is the operating system that supports the Workabout family of products and is exclusive to Psion Teklogix products. (This operating system is commonly incorrectly referred to as EPOC 16 OS).

The Pentax Workabout driver supports the Pentax PocketJet® 200 printer only. This driver can be found on the CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here. The driver includes a “User Interface Application” as well as a “Driver Application” that may be used as a command line program. Both driver applications will print any TEXT file.

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Workabout

• IR (Infrared) cable
• Serial Cable: there are two forms of serial connection to the Workabout: 1. Connecting directly to the Workabout requires the Pentax serial 4’ cable (part number 203252) this cable is a 57600 baud cable. 2. Connecting to a cradle requires the serial cable to be at 19200 baud. This requires a “special” order from the customer to take the current serial 4’ cable (part number 203252 version 553 or higher) and adjust this cable to a baud rate of 19200. Please contact the Pentax Sales or Technical Support at 1-800-543-6144 for this solution.

Note: Software developers may contact Pentax at (1-800-877-0155) or techinfo@pentax.com to receive an SDK (Software Development Kit) that contains the source code needed to support the PocketJet 200 printer directly from the software application.

Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Psion, Samsung Electronics, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Among the primary goals of this consortium is to provide a standard operating system and development tools for use with data-enabled cell phones or PDA devices. The Operating System used by the Symbian devices is commonly referred to as EPOC32 for use with the Psion Series 5 and later machines. Various revisions of the EPOC operating system are commonly referred to as ERx, where “x” is the version number.

• ER5 devices are primarily PDA’s which may include devices such as the revo, revo Plus, series 7, series 5mx and netbook.
• ER6 devices include devices such as the Nokia 92xx communicator phones.

Pentax Symbian print drivers for EPOC ER5 and ER6 support both the Pentax PocketJet II and PocketJet 200 printers. They can be found on the CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here.

Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the EPOC Device

• ER5 devices are supported with the Pentax IR (Infrared) cable (part number 203440) or the Pentax 6” serial cable (part number 203236)
• ER6 devices are supported with the Pentax IR cable version 555 or higher (part number 203440) only

Note: Please contact Pentax Technical Support (1-800-877-0155) for information on printing from Series 60 or UIQ devices.

Confused by the terms “Windows Mobile”, “Handheld PCs”, “Pocket PCs”, and “Windows CE”? “Window Mobile “ is the brand name Microsoft uses for the operating system and software it developed for handheld devices. Windows Mobile sits on top of the Windows CE core embedded operating system. The Windows Mobile OS and applications are “embedded” programs, which means that Microsoft licenses them to companies that manufacture the handheld, such as Dell, Toshiba or Hewlett-Packard. The paragraphs below define the different device types, and how to enable printing from each of them.

Defining the Devices and Printing Support

Handheld PC
From the beginning, Microsoft’s operating system for mobile devices was called “Windows CE” and the first device released using this OS was called a “Handheld PC”. They were “mininotebook” computers with a clam-shell design and a small keyboard. The original models of the Handheld PC came with a built-in suite of Microsoft applications similar to those found on the Pocket PC,(see below) but modified to take advantage of the different screen size and the keyboard input.

Handheld PCs are still available through Itronix, NEC, Psion Teklogix, and other vendors. A few models still come with the suite of Microsoft applications mentioned above. But some of the newer Handheld PCs based on the Windows CE.NET Version 4.2 operating system do not.

• Handheld PC Windows CE Print Driver Availability
  Pentax provides a driver for Windows CE and Window CE.NET Handheld PC devices. This driver supports both the Pentax PocketJet II and PocketJet 200 printers. The driver is located on the CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here. Note: Field Software also offers a variety of printing options for the Handheld PC Windows CE. Please visit them at www.fieldsoftware.com for more information.

Pocket PC
Pocket PC is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) that fits in the palm of your hand and is powered by a rechargeable battery that allows the user to use the device for at least a full day (in most situations) before recharging. Information is entered into the pocket PC with a small pen-like “stylus” which is used with the color “touch screen”. The Pocket PC was originally introduced in April of 2000. The Pocket PC is based on Windows Mobile for Pocket PC software, which includes the Pocket PC operating system along with productivity and entertainment software, and set up/configuration utilities, all from Microsoft. Different manufacturers develop Pocket PCs, but they all have many similarities.

Pocket PC Phone Edition
Pocket PC Phone Edition is a Pocket PC with a mobile phone built into it that allows the user to make phone calls and connect to wireless data services. In addition to standard Pocket PC applications, the built-in software includes a dialer application that supports the mobile phone capability.

• Pocket PC Print Application Availability
  The Pocket PC Windows Mobile (built on Windows CE OS) does not provide printing capability directly from the integrated applications and requires printing support from a third party accessory printing utility. Pentax is pleased to inform you that the Pentax PocketJet printer family is supported by a number of accessory printing utility products provided by Field Software.

Pentax has partnered with Field Software to provide a free trial version of each of the accessory printing utilities provided by Field Software. Trial versions of the software can be found on the Pentax Driver CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here. Pentax would like to encourage PocketJet owners to try each of the “trial” versions before deciding what printing application best fits their printing needs.

Application Overview for Pocket PC

• Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Pocket PC Device
  Field Software provides full support to wireless printing provided by the Pentax IR (Infrared) offering (Pentax part number 203440 at the baud rate of 115200). Full support is also given to the Pentax serial offering (Pentax part number 203236 at the baud rate of 57600) which is intended to connect to the serial synchronization cable or cradle supplied with the device.

Bluetooth printing is available using a third party Bluetooth module with the Pentax Bluetooth Module Adapter Cable (Part number 205378).

• Printing from Non-integrated Application Packages
  Many applications can be enabled to print by using the PocketClipPrint application after first copying TEXT or BITMAP data to the clipboard from the application.

Smartphone
The Smartphone is a mobile phone with built in PDA functions. The Smartphone looks and functions like a mobile phone, but includes PDA functionality similar to the Pocket PC but optimized for Smartphone format.

• Smartphone Print Application Availability
  The Smartphone Windows Mobile (built on Windows CE OS) does not provide printing capability directly from the integrated applications and requires printing support from a third party accessory printing utility. Pentax is pleased to inform you that the Pentax PocketJet printer family is supported by a number of accessory printing utility products provided by Field Software.

Pentax has partnered with Field Software to provide a free trial version of each of the accessory printing utilities provided by Field Software. Trial versions of the software can be found on the CD that came with your printer and can be downloaded here.

There are currently two versions of the Windows Mobile platform for Smartphones: Smartphone 2002, the original Smartphone, and Windows Mobile 2003, which includes improvements to Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player, “always on” data, and native Bluetooth support.

• Application Overview for Smartphone
  

  Application	Application Description	Trial Period
  SmartPhonePrint 2002 www.fieldsoftware.com	Printing for Windows Mobile Smartphone. Print email, contacts, tasks and calendar fieldsoftware.com	15 Days
  SmartPhonePrint 2003 www.fieldsoftware.com	Printing for Windows Mobile Smartphone. Print email, contacts, tasks and calendar	15 Days

  
  
• Connecting the Pentax PocketJet to the Pocket PC Device
  Field Software provides full support with wireless printing provided by the Pentax IR (Infrared) offering (Pentax part number 203440).

Bluetooth printing is available using a third party Bluetooth module with the Pentax Bluetooth Module Adapter Cable (Part number 205378).

Direct Application Printing

Direct application printing support is a function of the software package. All requests to have printing supported directly from a specific software package must be made directly to the software company. If printing is not listed as being supported on the software packaging, call the software support line and make a request for printing functions to be added. Software developers are encouraged to print-enable their application by contacting Field Software for a developer’s tool kit.

Note: Pocket PC 2002 (and higher) has support for printer driver architecture through Windows CE. This will NOT alleviate the need to use Field Software for the integrated software application however, it does allow third party software developers to build printing into their application by using Windows CE. The Pentax Windows CE driver must be installed on the Pocket PC when printing from a third party software application that takes advantage of the printer driver architecture (Windows CE).