Lexmark Printer manual DTR and DTR/DSR Protocol Timing RS-232C

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Interfaces

DTR and DTR/DSR Protocol Timing (RS-232C)

Use DTR to pace the data flow from the computer. DTR goes from high to low to indicate to the computer that the printer cannot receive more data when it detects the following BUSY conditions:

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Buffer full

Attendance error

Printer not in ready state

The following diagram illustrates DTR Protocol Timing.

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Receive Data Valid

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Legend:

1The RTS signal is driven active as long as power is supplied to the printer.

2The DTR signal becomes active when initialization is complete, telling the computer that the printer is ready to receive data.

3When Honor DSR is On, the printer considers data received invalid when DSR is low and discards the data. Only DTR/DSR is used for flow control from the printer to the host computer.

4DTR drops to tell the computer that the receive buffer is nearly full or that the printer is busy and that data transmission should stop. About 640 free bytes remain in the buffer at this time. If the computer continues to send data after the printer has sent a low DTR signal, data could be lost.