Parallel Submenu
Dataproducts Submenu
IMPORTANT The Dataproducts parameters in the printer must be set the same as the Dataproducts interface in the host computer. Otherwise, the printer might not work online, and data characters from the computer might not print or might print as “garbled” text.
* = Factory Default
Parallel
(from page 103)
Dataproducts
Data Bit 8
Enable*
Disable
PI Ignored
Enable*
Disable
Data Polarity
Standard*
Inverted
Data Request Strobe Polarity Pol.
Standard* Standard*
Inverted Inverted
Buffer Size in
K
8*
The Dataproducts submenu provides the options and settings available to configure the interface as required for your application. These options and available settings are outlined in the following paragraphs.
Data Bit 8
•Enable. Allows access to the extended ASCII character set.
•Disable. The printer interprets bit 8 of each incoming data character as a zero, regardless of its actual setting.
PI Ignored
The PI (Paper Instruction) signal is used to control vertical paper motion.
•Enable. Ignores the PI signal and treats the data as characters or control codes.
•Disable. Causes the printer to interpret the eight data lines as VFU commands when the PI signal is true.
Data Polarity
The Data Polarity parameter must be set to match the data polarity of your host computer.
•Standard. Does not expect the host computer to invert the data.
•Inverted. Expects the data received on the data lines from the host computer to be inverted. Ones become zeros, and
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