Programming ACTA  ACTA 4000 User Guide  
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Port (ACTA 3000 only) 
This is where you set your printer and communication preferences. 
1 Printer protocol 
Here you select the protocol that suits your printer. 
ACTA 3000 can communicate with some of the printers on the market using one 
of the following protocols: Epson, IBM and PCL3. When purchasing a printer for 
ACTA, check that it can handle one of these protocols. 
2 Paper size 
Paper format for printing. A4 or Letter. 
3 Color 
Color printer is currently not available. 
4 Flow control 
Here you can select your flow control, or handshake, to be used when 
communicating through the serial port.  
Options: Hardware and Xon/Xoff.  
Preferred setting for ToolsTalk QAT is Hardware 
 
It is important that the Flow control parameter is configured 
identically in both ACTA and ToolsTalk QAT. 
 
5 Barcode 
position 
Here you set the start position for the sequence number in the string read by the 
Barcode reader. 
For details on port settings for Barcode reader, see section Barcode Reader. 
6 Barcode length 
Here you set the number of characters that are to be used from the read Bar code 
for the sequence number. The sequence number starts in the position set by 
Barcode position. 
Communication (ACTA 4000 only) 
This is one of the two places where communication preferences are set. 
1 Ethernet 
Settings for communication over Ethernet.  
1. Ethernet startup 
Indicates when the Ethernet chip must be active. 
2. IP address 
ACTA IP address 
3. Subnet mask 
ACTA subnet mask 
4. Gateway IP 
ACTA gateway IP 
5. Hostname 
ACTA host name 
6. Dynamic IP 
This setting enables or disables DHCP. If enabled the other 
fields are automatically filled in when connection with a 
DHCP-server is established