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From: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Imagewriter II cable to PC
Message-ID: <12599@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 90 16:57:59 GMT
References: <12570@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Aug15.140544.18942@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1990Aug15.140544.18942@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> What exactly is the problem?  Sending chars to the printer and not having them
> appear until you hit enter is normal-- that's the way the Imagewriter II
> works.  If the problem is that it prints, then loses some characters and
> starts printing garbage, the problem is that you need to make a hardware
> handshake cable.  
> My guess would be that you would connect pin 2 of the Imagewriter end to pin
> 4 of the PC (DB25 I assume) end if the PC has a DCE configured port.  If the
> port is configured as a DTE, try connecting Pin 2 to Pin 5 or to pin 20.

The problem is that it does not function properly as a printer, meaning that
PRINT doesn't recognize it, nor word processors.  There must be some handshake
problem in the cable, but even a breakout box couldn't help to match up the
signals.  What cable configuration works with this printer?  By the way, I'm
using the 9-pin serial port on an AT.

Eric
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