Terminal Setup; Starting Terminal Setup; Solving Communication Problems - Intermec easycoder f2 Installation & Operation Manual

Terminal Setup

Starting Terminal Setup

Solving Communication
Problems
1 /. By default, "uart1:" is standard IN/OUT
channel and should be used for communi-
cation between printer and host, e.g. for
running Terminal Setup or for program-
ming. However, other ports could be
appointed standard IN and/or OUT chan-
nel by means of the Intermec Fingerprint
statement SETSTDIO. Refer to the Inter-
mec Fingerprint manuals for further
information.
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The Terminal Setup program in Intermec Shell allows the operator
to control the whole Intermec Shell program remotely from a host
computer or terminal and also to read or change the printer's setup.
Obvious prerequisites are that there must be a working two-way
(serial) communication between printer and host, and that the
host runs a suitable communication program (e.g. MS Windows
Terminal) that can transmit and receive data in ASCII format, i.e. as
printable characters. Set up the terminal as VT100.
Enter Terminal Setup by transmitting three upper- or lowercase T
characters (TTT or ttt) while the printer either shows the Intermec
Shell countdown menus or the Select Application menu.
If this does not work, the communication protocols of the printer and
the host probably do not match, or there is some other communication
error, e.g. a defect communication cable, wrong port selected
on the host, or cable connected to some other port than "uart1:"
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on the printer .
You can check and change the printer's setup in the Setup Mode,
which you can enter by pressing the < Setup> key on the printer's
built-in keyboard. Proceed as described in chapter 7 "Setup Mode".
Among the facilities in Intermec Shell, you will also fi nd a number
of options that allow you to read or change the communication
setup of the printer:
• Setup
This is another way of entering the Setup Mode, where you
can browse through the setup parameters and make changes by
means of the printer's keyboard.
• Print Setup
Here you can print the current setup on one or more labels.
• Default Setup
This option allows you to reset the communication parameters
for all serial communication channels on the printer to default
values.
Change the communication setup of the printer according to the
host or vice versa.
Once printer and host has been set up with the same communication
parameters, go to the "Select Application" menu and use the triple
T (TTT or ttt) to start Terminal Setup.
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