Zebra Technologies 2844 user manual Female DB-25 to Male Centronics Cable

Appendix A - Troubleshooting

Parallel Interface The figure below displays the cable wiring Cable Wiring required to use the printer's Centronics parallel

interface.

HOST	DB-25	Centronics	PRINTER
	Pin No.	Pin No.
STROBE	1	1	STROBE
DATA 0	2	2	DATA 0
DATA 1	3	3	DATA 1
DATA 2	4	4	DATA 2
DATA 3	5	5	DATA 3
DATA 4	6	6	DATA 4
DATA 5	7	7	DATA 5
DATA 6	8	8	DATA 6
DATA 7	9	9	DATA 7
ACK/	10	10	ACK/
BUSY	11	11	BUSY
PAPER ERR.	12	12	PAPER ERR.
READY	13	13	READY
INIT	14	14	INIT
ERROR/	15	15	ERROR/
N/A	16	16	N/A
N/A	17	17	N/A
N/A	18	18	+5V
SIG. GND	19	19	SIG. GND
SIG. GND	20	20	SIG. GND
SIG. GND	21	21	SIG. GND
SIG. GND	22
		22	SIG. GND
SIG. GND	23
		23	SIG. GND
SIG. GND	24
		24	SIG. GND
SIG. GND	25
		25

Female DB-25 to Male Centronics

(Cable)

+5 volts at 300 mA for external device (e.g. KDU or scanner)

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