Interface
specifications
Your printer is equipped with an 8-bit parallel interface.
Specifications and pin assignments
The built-in parallel interface has the following characteristics:
Data format:
parallel
Synchronization: STROBE pulse
Handshake timing BUSY and
signals
Signal level:
compatible
Connector:
connector or
e q u i v a l e n t
The table below provides the connector pin assignments and describes
their respective interface signals.
Signal
1
2
DATA 1
3
DATA 2
4
DATA 3
5
DATA 4
6
DATA 5
DATA 6
8
DATA 7
9
DATA 8
Pin
STROBE
Direction
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
OUT
STROBE
to read data.
Pulse
must be more
than
at the
terminal.
These
represent
information in bits 1 to 8 of
data respectively.
Each
HIGH level
when data logical 1 and
LOW when it is logical
About an
pulse. LOW
that data has been
received and that the printer
is ready to accept more
data.
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