CD5220 customer display
4. INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS
4.1Communication
4.1.1 Serial port (RS232C) communication
(a)The interface specification are based on EIA RS232C baud rate 9600 or 4800 bps ( select by DIP switch, refer Table
(b)Serial port (RS232C) communication flow
1. Data flow | : PC/host to display, display to printer, printer to |
PC/host |
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2.Control flow : display to PC/host, printer to display, PC/host to printer
(c)CD5220/CD6220 will inactive DTR or RTS signal to PC/host, the following two condition.
1.Printer inactive DTR or RTS signal.
2. The pass through buffer in CD5220/CD6220 is full ( 200bytes ) .
*If PC/host keep transmitting the data to printer when CD5220/CD6220 inactive DTR or RTS , data will be lost.
4.1.2 Parallel port (Centronic) communication
(a) data flow | : PC/Host to display, display to printer |
(b)control flow : printer to display , display to PC/Host
(c)When data has been transmitted to printer by parallel port interface, the CD5220/CD6220 response the printer status to PC/Host, When printer active the BUSY signal, CD5220/CD6220 will keep accept the data until the