Serial Interface; The Equity Ii Character Set; Connecting A Printer - Epson Equity II User Manual

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5. Plug the printer's power cable into an electrical outlet.

Note: You can plug some printers into the unswitched AC outlet on

the back panel, if the printer's power consumption does not

exceed

Serial interface

If you have a printer (or another peripheral such as a modem) with a

serial interface, connect it to the port marked SERIAL on the back panel

of the main unit. If your cable has a male D-connector at both ends, you

need an adapter to connect it to the computer. To connect a serial device,

follow the same steps above for connecting a parallel device.

To use a printer connected to the serial port, you need to use the

MS-DOS SETMODE program (or the MODE command) to indicate the

RS-232C serial port is in use and to direct printer output to the serial

instead of the parallel port. See your MS-DOS manual for instructions.

The Equity II uses a special character set that assigns graphics and

international characters to some ASCII codes. In most cases, if you try to

print these characters on a standard printer, you get italic characters in-

stead. Some Epson printers support the IBM character set (the character

set the Equity II uses) as a standard feature, and you can adapt others.

Also, some application programs can print the special graphics charac-

ters on a standard printer when you use a special printer driver program.

Ask your Epson dealer for more information.

Figure 1-10. Connecting a printer

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