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Pro-LX Laminating Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 5.0) 94
Reviewing the Centronics Parallel Pin Assignments
Pin No. Signal Direction Description
1 ______ Strobe
In A LOW pulse greater than 1 µs
causes the Printer to read one
byte of data.
2 Data 0 In Data bit 0
3 Data 1 In Data bit 1
4 Data 2 In Data bit 2
5 Data 3 In Data bit 3
6 Data 4 In Data bit 4
7 Data 5 In Data bit 5
8 Data 6 In Data bit 6
9 Data 7 In Data bit 7
10 ______ Acknlg
Out A low pulse is sent by the
Printer to indicate that a byte of
data has been accepted and
that it is ready for more data.
11 Busy
Out A high logic level is sent to the
Printer to indicate to the host
that it cannot receive data due
to a data entry, an error status
or a full buffer.
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