Printek PrintMaster 860, Operator'S Manual

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P R I N T E R C O N F I G U R A T I O N
25
Interface Menu
The Interface Menu may contain several submenus. These submenus are for setting up items pertaining to
the hardware interfaces such as the serial and parallel ports.
In addition to the standard parallel interface and the RS-232C serial interface, which are furnished with the
printer, 10/100BaseT Ethernet may also be installed. The Setup items for each interface are described in
one of the following sections.
RS-232C Serial Interface on page 25
Parallel/LAN Interface on page 28
Entering the Interface Menu
To Enter the Interface Menu, enter Setup and press the
MENU
button until
INTERFACE MENU
is displayed
on the top line as shown below.
INTERFACE MENU
Serial
The SUBMENU options for the
INTERFACE MENU
always include the Serial and Parallel/LAN ports. To
select the desired interface, press the
SUBMENU
button until that interface is displayed on the bottom line.
Note that when the
Lan Setup
option under the
Parallel/LAN
item list is set to
On
, the serial
Interface is not available and will not appear in the Interface Menu. Next press the
ALIGN/ITEM
button to
begin displaying the items associated with that interface. Each interface and the items, which pertain to
that interface, are listed on the following pages. Note that many items are the same for more than one
interface since the computer attached to that interface may have different requirements for each of those
items.
The factory default values are indicated with an asterisk (*) in this manual (the asterisk does not appear on
the printer’s display).
RS-232C Serial Interface Items
INTERFACE MENU
Serial
Emulation
Emulation
Epson
Possible Values:
Epson*, IBM Proprinter, DEC LA120/LA210, TTY,
Printek, ANSI X3.64, Genicom 3840, Genicom 3410
This item selects the emulation to be used whenever the serial port is active.
Emulation
should be set to
match the type of printer your software supports.