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From: doug@giaea.gi.oz (Douglas Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: printing via the serial port
Message-ID: <1805@giaea.gi.oz>
Date: 22 May 91 06:06:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: giaea.1805
References: <91136.142619SASDDI@vm.sas.com> <91141.093332SASDDI@vm.sas.com>
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill 3842, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.
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In article <91141.093332SASDDI@vm.sas.com> SASDDI@vm.sas.com writes:
>One extra variable: to connect the printer to the PC, I had to borrow
>a gender-mender from work. (The cable has two male plugs, as does the
>PC's serial port.)  It's definitly NOT a null modem, as it's a ribbon
>cable with connectors on either end; no place to cross the send/receive
>lines.
>
>Any more suggestions from you net.gurus and/or hackers? :-)

To connect our PCs to an EPSON LQ400 serial printer, we were told to use
the following cable connections:
    PC end             PRINTER end
    2 ---------------- 3

    3 ---------------- 2

    6 --+
        |
    8 --+------------- 5
        |
    20 -+

    7 ---------------- 7

    5 ---------------- 20

Doug.
(doug@giaea.oz.au)
...!munnari!goanna!giaea!doug