{"id":54,"date":"2006-10-13T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/qa-windows-mobile-5-printer-support\/"},"modified":"2006-10-13T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T07:21:17","slug":"qa-windows-mobile-5-printer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/13\/qa-windows-mobile-5-printer-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Windows Mobile 5 Printer Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reader OdL<\/strong> asks:<\/p>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">As a simple  programmer of our laboratory, i&#8217;ve made a handy\u00c2\u00a0PDA application for our  fieldworkers so they can:<\/font><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">retrieve  projectinformation from our database<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">walk through a  wizzerd to fill in information<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">make a  CAD-drawing, saved as WMF<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">print report  including the drawing &#8220;on the spot&#8221; (HP Deskjet 450, IRDa)<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">transmit  information &#038; drawings, so the server can generate certificates for  authoriation<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\" \/> <span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">This all works as a  charm, except for the printing part.<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">We were using &#8220;HP  Mobile Printing&#8221; software, which is now discontinued. <\/font><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Now comes the time  we have to purchase new printers that are not supported by &#8220;HP Mobile Printer&#8221;  software, and so we&#8217;re looking for a new solution as well.<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The current reports  we use for mobile printing, are basically generated HTML-templates with jpg&#8217;s,  printed from InternetExplorer.<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">What I wanted to ask  from a PDA-expert, what can be the best mobile print solutions for our  situation?<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><span class=\"656144214-13102006\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">I was thinking about  using PIEprint from fieldsoftware.com, but the quality kind&#8217;a  sucks.<\/font><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hmm. I haven&#8217;t looked at that issue in a long time (since Windows Mobile 5 came out, basically). Here&#8217;s what I found after a quick look-see this evening though.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bachmannsoftware.com\/pbce.htm\">Bachman PrintBoy 7.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westtek.com\/pocketpc\/jetcet\/\">Westtek JETCET<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Please let me know if either of this work (or not) for you. I think other people will be interested to learn your findings.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader OdL asks: As a simple programmer of our laboratory, i&#8217;ve made a handy\u00c2\u00a0PDA application for our fieldworkers so they can:\u00c2\u00a0 retrieve projectinformation from our database walk through a wizzerd to fill in information make a CAD-drawing, saved as WMF print report including the drawing &#8220;on the spot&#8221; (HP Deskjet 450, IRDa) transmit information &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-qa","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}