
A P P E N D I X
CENTRONICS INTERFACE BOARD
The new Centronics adapter
a)Rev
b)Reliable data transfers using up to 40 ft length of shielded cable.
c)Rev
The following are two transfer formats that can be used with the optional V8.5E Centronics parallel adapter:
C
1.) Standard transfer format
To place the V8.5E Centronics adapter in raster mode, the following 3 bytes (hex) must be sent to the Centronics adapter card:
1B, 2A, 00
Once these 3 bytes are sent, rastered plot data can be sent to the plotter as follows:
V8.5E bytes/scan menu setting | bytes/scan raster data |
b1 | 216 |
b2 | 264 |
1728 |
V8.5eRev2.2.2002 | |
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