PC Cable

Pinouts

PC Cable Pinouts

Centronics/IEEE 1284 Parallel

This table gives the pinouts for the printer end of the Centronics/IEEE 1284 parallel cable used to connect your printer to a computer.

Signal Pin No.

Signal Description

Direction

 

 

 

1

Strobe-

In

2

Data 1

InOut

3

Data 2

InOut

4

Data 3

InOut

5

Data 4

InOut

6

Data 5

InOut

7

Data 6

InOut

8

Data 7

InOut

9

Data 8

InOut

10

Acnlg-

Out

11

Busy+

Out

12

Pe+

Out

13

Select

Out

14

Autofeed

In

15

Reserved

-

16

Ground

-

17

Ground

-

18

Vcc Test

-

19-30

Ground

-

31

Iprime

In

32

Fault-

Out

33

Reserved

-

34

Reserved

-

35

Reserved

-

36

Selectin

In

 

 

 

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