Before You Begin This section provides you with safety information, technical support information, and sources for additional product information. Your safety is extremely important. Read and follow all warnings and cautions in this document before handling and operating Intermec equipment. You can be seriously injured, and equipment and data can be damaged if you do not follow the safety warnings and cautions. This section explains how to identify and understand warnings, cautions, and notes that are used in this document. Note: Notes either provide extra information about a topic or contain special instructions for handling a particular condition or set of circumstances. To understand the warranty for your Intermec product, visit the Intermec web site at and click Support > Returns and Repairs > Warranty. Visit the Intermec web site at to download our current manuals (in PDF). To order printed versions of the Intermec manuals, contact your local Intermec representative or distributor. Visit the Intermec technical knowledge base (Knowledge Central) at intermec.custhelp.com to review technical information or to request technical support for your Intermec product. In the U.S.A. and Canada, call 1-800-755-5505. Outside the U.S.A. and Canada, contact your local Intermec representative. To search for your local representative, from the Intermec web site, click About Us > Contact Us. For the most current listing of service locations, go to and click Support >Returns and Repairs > Repair Locations. For technical support in South Korea, use the after service locations listed below: AWOO Systems 102-1304 SK Ventium 522 Dangjung-dong Gunpo-si, Gyeonggi-do Korea, South 435-776 Contact: Mr. Sinbum Kang Telephone: +82-31-436-1191 E-mail: mjyun@awoo.co.kr IN Information System PTD LTD 6th Floor Daegu Venture Center Bldg 95 Shinchun 3 Dong Donggu, Daegu City, Korea E-mail: jmyou@idif.co.kr or korlim@gw.idif.co.kr This user’s guide is for the person who is responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the PB50 printer. This guide provides you with information about the features of the PB50, and how to install, configure, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot it. Before you work with the PB50, you should be familiar with your network and general networking terms, such as IP address. This table contains a list of related Intermec documents and their part numbers. Document Title Part Number The Intermec web site at contains our documents (as PDF files) that you can download for free. To order printed versions of the Intermec manuals, contact your local Intermec representative or distributor. Use this chapter to familiarize yourself with the PB50 and PB50C Mobile Label and Receipt Printers. In this chapter you will find these sections: Learning About the PB50 Printer The PB50 and PB50C are rugged direct thermal label and receipt printers designed for use with the CK31, 700 series, CK61, CN2B, CN3, and CN3e mobile computers as well as the SF51 and SR61 scanners. Throughout this manual, both models of the printer are referred to as PB50 unless the information is specific to one model. The PB50 provides: This version of the PB50 printer manual contains these changes: Use this illustrations to familiarize yourself with some of the features of the PB50. Your PB50 printer comes with Intermec Printer Language (IPL), Fingerprint, or ESC/P firmware. The choice of firmware affects the functionality of the printer and how you interact with it. This manual contains information for using each type of printer firmware. The current firmware type and version display on the PB50 screen when the printer is in Ready mode. The PB50 control panel contains four buttons, a liquid crystal display (LCD), and one LED indicator. Use the four buttons to navigate the menu system and perform functions on the PB50 printer. See the following tables to understand the buttons, the menu system, and what the LED means. All of the buttons can act as “soft keys,” which means that the function of each button depends on the state of the printer. A small icon appears in the screen next to the button to indicate the function it performs There is only one LED on the PB50 printer: the Ready-to-Work™ indicator. The PB50 plays sounds in response to several actions that you can take with the printer. Use the following table to understand when the sounds occur and what they mean. Use the power options on the PB50 to manage and conserve battery power. From the Power option in Setup menu, you can set Low Battery, Sleep Timer, and Standby Timer. Use the Low Battery option to set the battery voltage at which the low battery warning appears. The values for Low Battery range from 12.1 V to 16.8 V in 0.1 V increments. The default setting is 13.5 V. Use the Sleep Timer option to set the amount of time it takes for the PB50 to go to “sleep” if the printer is not printing and you do not have any interaction...