Terminal Setup; Starting Terminal Setup; Solving Communication Problems - Intermec EasyCoder 501 S Installation And Operation Manual

Terminal Setup

Starting Terminal Setup

Solving Communication
Problems
Intermec EasyCoder 501 S – Installation & Operation Ed. 1
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 to read or change the printer's setup. There
must be a working two-way (serial) communication between printer
and host, and the host must be running a suitable communication
program (for example MS Windows HyperTerminal) that can
transmit and receive data in ASCII format; that is, 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 you cannot start Terminal Setup, the communication protocols
of the printer and the host probably do not match, or there is some
other communication error. For example, you may have a defective
communication cable, the wrong port may be selected on the host, or
the cable is not connected to "uart1:" on the printer.
You can check the printer's setup in Intermec Shell. Among the
facilities in Intermec Shell, you will find a number of options
that allow you to read or change the communication setup of
the printer:
• Setup
This option allows you to read the communication setup.
• Print Setup
Here you can print the current setup on one or more labels.
• Ser-Com Reset
This option allows you to reset the communication parameters
for the serial communication channel "uart1:" to its default
values.
Change the communication setup of the host according to the printer's
setup. If that is not possible, reset the printer's communication setup
to default using the Ser-Com Reset option and change the setup
of the host accordingly.
Once printer and host have 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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