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Technical reference 185
Centronics port configuration
The Centronics parallel port is located at the back of the printer.
The following diagrams describe the Centronics port pin assignment. For
further details, refer to the IEEE P1284 standard.
[73] Centronics connector
Centronics port pin assignment
Printer Pin No. Signal direction Name of the signal
11 Printer to Host BSY Busy
13 Printer to Host SELECT Select
10 Printer to Host ACKN Acknowledge
32 Printer to Host FAULTN Fault
12 Printer to Host PAPEROUT Paper error
2 Host to Printer Data 1 Data 1 (LSB)
3 Host to Printer Data 2 Data 2
4 Host to Printer Data 3 Data 3
5 Host to Printer Data 4 Data 4
6 Host to Printer Data 5 Data 5
7 Host to Printer Data 6 Data 6
8 Host to Printer Data 7 Data 7
9 Host to Printer Data 8 Data 8 (MSB)
31 Host to Printer INITN Initialize
1 Host to Printer STROBEN Strobe
36 Host to Printer SELECTINN Select In
14 Host to Printer AUTOFDN
18 Host to Printer + 5V OUT
16-17, 19-30 ------------------- GND Ground
Note: STROBE is the dialog
18 1
36
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