Gpio Manager; Introduction - Printronix T5000 Software Manual

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Introduction

This chapter describes the Printronix GPIO function available for the
Printronix SL5000r/T5000r series Thermal printers.
NOTE: Only limited GPIO support is available for Line Matrix printers. Please
GPIO is both hardware and software. The hardware is the I/O board to be
mounted in the printer
hardware is a printed circuit board containing optically isolated inputs and
outputs as well as relays. The GPIO software is both a printer resident GPIO
event parser and a PC-based GPIO manager that allows the user to define
how the general purpose I/O hardware should behave for the given
application.
NOTE: Certain GPIO features in the printer can only be enabled by a special

GPIO Manager

contact the Customer Support Center for information before ordering
Line Matrix printers with GPIO.
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and the software is the GPIO Manager. The GPIO
security key, described in Table 9 on page 204 and Table 10 on
page 213.
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