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There are few ways of connecting the iTIVO-HD to your cash register. Here are some examples
1. Direct connection: This is the most common and straight forward method if there is a serial port
available on your ECR/POS that can be configured as transaction data output port. Check your
ECR/POS's manual to find out this possibility.
2. Printer/Pole display Emulation: This method is similar to 1 (direct connection) except that you have to
short the TX jumper of iTIVO-HD (see
understand most ESC commands (or printer ESC commands) and can respond to them accordingly.
In this way, the iTIVO-HD is actually emulating a "printer" or a "pole display" device. Select a pole
display or printer (e.g. TM-88II) model that you would like iTIVO-HD to emulate in your ECR/POS's
printer/pole display configuration (refer to relevant manual) and ensure that you can disable all
hardware flow-control of the selected device in your ECR/POS. If not, you may have to make a cable,
or modify the supplied cable, similar to the figure shown in
(serial cable with flow control loopback).
3. Pole display tapping: This method taps the serial TX and GND lines of a pole display that is already
connected to your ECR/POS.
4. External printer tapping: This method taps the serial TX and GND lines of an external printer that is
already connected to your ECR/POS.
5. Internal journal/receipt printer tapping: This method taps directly from the internal printer. It requires a
special PI4ECR converter card to be installed in your ECR. Ask your local distributor about this
converter card if you need more information.
NOTE: The default RS232 setting of iTIVO-HD is 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity bit and 1 stop
bit. No flow control. Set your ECR/POS or PC to match this setting. Otherwise, this setting
must be changed through PC programming (refer to iTIVO-HD User's Manual).
RJ45-DB9 Cable Configuration
The supplied RJ45-DB9 cable can be used for either ECR/POS connection or PC programming. This cable
only has pin2, pin3 and pin5 of DB9 connected. For printer emulation, TX jumper has to be shorted. Refer to
Connecting iTIVO-HD to ECR/POS
location. The figure on the left shows the electrical connection of the supplied cable. The figure on the right
is a typical connection with hardware flow control loopback, which is sometimes required in emulating a
printer/pole display if hardware flow control is mandatory, depending on the model of an ECR/POS being
iTIVO-HD User's Manual
used. Refer to
For more information and other product documents, please go to
Jumper
section of iTIVO-HD
section and iTIVO-HD User's Manual about printer emulation and jumper
for more cabling options.
http://www.ilinkpro.com/proddetail.php?prod=iTIVO-HD
User's
Manual). iTIVO-HD can
RJ45-DB9 Cable Configuration
iTIVO-HD
section
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