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Article #9986Re: printing via the serial port
From: Douglas Thomson
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 06:06
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 06:06
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In article <91141.093332SASDDI@vm.sas.com> SASDDI@vm.sas.com writes:
>One extra variable: to connect the printer to the PC, I had to borrow
>a gender-mender from work. (The cable has two male plugs, as does the
>PC's serial port.) It's definitly NOT a null modem, as it's a ribbon
>cable with connectors on either end; no place to cross the send/receive
>lines.
>
>Any more suggestions from you net.gurus and/or hackers? :-)
To connect our PCs to an EPSON LQ400 serial printer, we were told to use
the following cable connections:
PC end PRINTER end
2 ---------------- 3
3 ---------------- 2
6 --+
|
8 --+------------- 5
|
20 -+
7 ---------------- 7
5 ---------------- 20
Doug.
(doug@giaea.oz.au)
...!munnari!goanna!giaea!doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!goanna!giaea!doug From: doug@giaea.gi.oz (Douglas Thomson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: printing via the serial port Message-ID: <1805@giaea.gi.oz> Date: 22 May 91 06:06:22 GMT Article-I.D.: giaea.1805 References: <91136.142619SASDDI@vm.sas.com> <91141.093332SASDDI@vm.sas.com> Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill 3842, Victoria, AUSTRALIA. Lines: 29