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Pro-LX Laminating Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 5.0)
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Reviewing the Centronics Parallel Pin Assignments
Pin No.
Signal
Direction
Description
1
______ Strobe
In
A LOW pulse greater than 1
µ
s
causes the Printer to read one
byte of data.
2
Data 0
In
Data bit 0
3
Data 1
In
Data bit 1
4
Data 2
In
Data bit 2
5
Data 3
In
Data bit 3
6
Data 4
In
Data bit 4
7
Data 5
In
Data bit 5
8
Data 6
In
Data bit 6
9
Data 7
In
Data bit 7
10
______ Acknlg
Out
A low pulse is sent by the
Printer to indicate that a byte of
data has been accepted and
that it is ready for more data.
11
Busy
Out
A high logic level is sent to the
Printer to indicate to the host
that it cannot receive data due
to a data entry, an error status
or a full buffer.
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