Zebra Technologies 2844 Printer 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

STROBE

DATA 0

DATA 1

DATA 2

DATA 3

DATA 4

DATA 5

DATA 6

DATA 7

ACK/

BUSY

PAPER ERR.

READY

INIT

ERROR/

N/A

N/A

N/A

SIG. GND SIG. GND SIG. GND SIG. GND SIG. GND SIG. GND SIG. GND

DB-25

Pin No.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

Centronics

Pin No. PRINTER

1	STROBE
2	DATA 0
3	DATA 1
4	DATA 2
5	DATA 3
6	DATA 4
7	DATA 5
8	DATA 6
9	DATA 7
10	ACK/
11	BUSY
12	PAPER ERR.
13	READY
14	INIT
15	ERROR/

16N/A

17N/A

18 +5V

19 SIG. GND

20 SIG. GND

21 SIG. GND

22 SIG. GND

23 SIG. GND

24 SIG. GND

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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