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Appendix 3 Interfaces
1
/. Nibble, byte, ECP, and EPP
from printer to host are presently
not supported.
2
/. Intermec Shell either auto-
matically sets the correct stan-
dard IN and OUT port when
an application is selected, for
example a Windows driver, or
prompts you to select one, see
Chapter 9.
IEEE 1284
Parallel Interface
Board
The EasyCoder F4 can optionally be fi tted with an IEEE 1284-I
compatible parallel interface board
1
. The parallel port is addressed
in Intermec Fingerprint as device "centronics:". Select "centronics:"
as the standard IN port using the instruction SETSTDIO (by default,
"uart1:" in standard IN port)
2
.
Interface Cable Connectors
Computer end: Depends on type of host computer.
Printer end: 36-pin IEEE 1284B Centronics socket
Pin Signal Name
1 DStrobe
2–9 Data 0–7
10 Ack
11 Busy
12 PE
13 Select
14 AF
15 Not connected
16 Ground
17 Screen
18 +5V Ext
19 –30 GND
31 Init
32 Error
33-35 Not connected
36 Selectin
"centronics:"