Printronix P5000LJ user manual Serial Submenu

Serial Submenu

TOF Action

•Reset. A form feed is performed before a warm start when the prime signal is asserted from the host. This setting is used only if the Prime Signal parameter is enabled.

•Do Nothing. No form feed is performed on reset.

Buffer Size in K

Configures the amount of memory allocated for the Centronics parallel port buffer. The default is 1 Kbyte, but you can specify between 1 and 16 Kbytes, in 1-Kbyte increments.

Serial Submenu

Note	The serial parameters in the printer must be set the same as the interface
	in the host computer (at the other end of the data cable of the printer).
	Otherwise, the printer might not work online, and data characters from the
	computer might not print or might print as “garbled” text.

Serial

(from page 115)

Interface

Type

RS-232*

RS-422

Data

Protocol

XON / XOFF*

ETX / ACK ACK / NAK DTR

Baud Rate

9600*

19200

38400

600

1200

2400

4800

Word

Length

8*

7

* = Factory Default

Stop Bits

1*

2

Parity

None*

Odd

Even

Mark

Sense

Data Term

Ready

True*

On-Line and BNF Off-Line or BF False

Request to

Send

On-Line and BNF* Off-Line or BF False

True

Buffer Size in

K

1* (1-16)

The serial submenu allows you to choose the configuration of the Serial host interface type, as shown above. Several other serial parameters are included on this menu, as described below.

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