Verifying Printer Communications With Your System - Intermec EasyCoder 3240 Getting Started Manual

Verifying Printer Communications With Your System

Once you have the printer connected to your system, you need to verify that
the printer communicates with your system. The easiest way to test
communications is to set the printer to Data Line Print mode, which is a part of
the Test and Service mode, and send down a character string from your system.
If you have just printed a configuration test label, you are in Data Line Print
mode. Start with Step 4.
To verify communications with your system
1. Turn the On/Off switch to the off position.
2. Press and hold the Feed/Pause button while powering on the printer. The
3. Release the Feed/Pause button after the hardware configuration label is
4. Send down some characters from your system.
5. To return to Print mode, turn the printer power off and then on again.
If this procedure does not work, check to make sure that the DIP switches are
set to the default configuration and that the printer cable is securely plugged
into the correct port of your system.
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printer prints out the hardware configuration test label.
printed. You are now in Data Line Print mode.
At this point the printer does not attempt to interpret any printer
commands. It simply prints each character with its hexadecimal equivalent
underneath.
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