Pertech 5300 Manual

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Pertech Resources Inc. November 2005 220321A 17

Conguration & Diagnostic Print Tests

Conguration Utility Program

Pertech Provides a Conguration Utility for the 5300

series that is downloadable from the Pertech web site.

The Conguration Utility offers an alternative to the One

Button Conguration explained later in this section. This

utility requires a Windows XP or 2000 operating system

and is easily installed. To install the Utility run setup.exe

and follow instructions on the screen. For updated or

additional information consult the readme / help le

included with the software.

The Conguration Utility is organized in tabs and drop

down box’s and shows the available options for each

Printer Control Language (PCL) selected.

Host and printer communication settings can be cong-

ured within the application to steamline the setup for the

system and printer. Before using the utility to congure

a printer, the user should verify the host communication

settings match the connection to the printer. The com-

munication settings used to transmit information to the

printer are displayed on the bottom of the form

The utility may be congured to download using RS232

or USB. RS232 may be congured to use hardware or

software handshaking, baud rates of 1200, 2400, 4800,

9600, 19200, 38400, 57600 on a choice of COM ports

1-9.

If the settings are incorrect, you may click on the “Set-

tings” menu, then select “Host Communication Settings”,

or press CTRL-H on the keyboard.

The “Congure” button will open up a window displaying

allowed changes to the conguration of the 5300. See

“Printer Conguration Options” for more information on

the various options available. These items are what will

be sent when the “Send” button is clicked. If there is a

padlock icon in the bottom right of this window, then the

conguration items can not be changed.

The “Send” button is what actually transmits the informa-

tion set up in “Congure” to the printer. Make sure the

host communications parameters match the connected

printer, and that the printer is connected. It may take

a few moments to transmit all the data. The 5300 may

need to reset itself several times during this process. Do

not disconnect the printer until the “Finished” dialog box

appears. If for some reason the utility can not congure

an item, you will be prompted with a choice to “Abort” the

entire conguration process, “Ignore” (or skip) only the

particular item that it can not congure, or to “Retry”.

The “Print” button is used to print a self-test so that the

conguration can be veried. Like the “Send” button, the

printer must be connected, powered on, with the param-

eters displayed on the bottom of the window matching

those of the currently connected printer. (Note that it is

possible to have changed the printer communications

settings if new settings were specied on a previous

“Send”). Note that the printer is not able to receive data

while the ticket is printing. Please wait until the ticket

is nished before clicking “Send” or “Print” or a transmit

error message will be displayed.

The “Exit” button will prompt the user if it would like to

save the settings for a later session. If yes, then there is

also an option to lock those settings, so that they can not

be changed again without a password.