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zebraPrinter.getDefaultDevice("printer", function(device) { device.sendFile(pdfBlob, null, function(error) { alert('Une erreur est survenue lors de l\'impression. L\'imprimante Zebra est elle paramétrée ?'); console.log('error zebra sendfile', error); }) }, function(error){ alert('Une erreur est survenue lors de l\'impression. L\'imprimante Zebra est elle paramétrée ?'); console.log('error zebra sendfile', error); });

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S Steven Si 3 months ago

The Browser Print doesn't provide API to disconnect the Bluetooth connection to the printer. It's up to the Android OS to determine when to disconnect the connection, which is normally after a timeout if there is no traffic on the connection. In your two tablets and one printer scenario, I would recommend to check the printer status first before firing a print from the tablets. If we cannot get the status back from the printer, it would indicate the tablet doesn't have a successful connection to the printer. Only start to print if the tablet has the Bluetooth connection.

J Julien PLESNIAK 2 months 2 weeks ago

Thanks for your help

I tried in c# but the official ZEBRA SDK (Zebra.Printer.SDK) I was able to do a very simple test: connection, printing and disconnection.

With it I have exactly the same problem, printing only works on the first printer.

// opening the connection to the bluetooth printer

Connection thePrinterConn = null;

thePrinterConn = ConnectionBuilder.Build($"BT:48:A4:93:D7:B6:ED");

thePrinterConn.Open();


//sending the print

string zplData = "^XA^FO20,20^A0N,25,25^FDThis is a ZPL test.^FS^XZ";

thePrinterConn.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(zplData));

//closing the connection

thePrinterConn.Close();

do you know if it is possible to completely disconnect the connection after printing? the close() method does not seem to disconnect completely.

S Steven Si 2 months 2 weeks ago

To close a connection, call the thePrinterConn.close(), as you did in code snippet above. This will close the Bluetooth connection. By default, it takes 5 second to close a Bluetooth connection. After the Bluetooth connection is closed, the Bluetooth icon on the printer should go away. Then you should be able to establish a Bluetooth connection from another device. Before the Bluetooth icon on the printer disappears, you cannot create a new Bluetooth connection from the other device.