Connecting The Printer To Your System; Connecting The Printer To A Pc Serial Port - Intermec 4630 User Manual

4630 and 4830 Bar Code Label Printers User's Manual
5. Press Select and then press ↑ or ↓ until the display shows:
6. Press Select. The display shows:
7. Press Enter to print the configuration test label.
8. Press Cont to return to the OFFLINE READY display.

Connecting the Printer to Your System

You can connect the printer to a PC, a local area network, an AS/400 (or other
midrange computer), or a mainframe. This section tells you how to connect
your printer to any of these systems.

Connecting the Printer to a PC Serial Port

To connect the printer to your PC serial port, you need a shielded EIA RS-232,
RS-422, or RS-485 electrical interface with a DB 25-pin connector on the printer
end and the appropriate serial port connector on the other end. You can use one
of the following Intermec cables:
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To connect your printer to a PC serial port
1. Turn off the printer.
2. Plug the 25-pin connector into one of the serial ports on the back panel of
3. Plug the other end of the cable into a serial port (COM port) on the PC.
4. Make sure the serial port settings for your printer and the PC are the same.
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PRINT CONFIG
USER DEFINED
USER DEFINED
EXECUTE TEST
P/N 048668 (25-pin printer connector to 25-pin serial port connector)
P/N 048693 (25-pin printer connector to 9-pin serial port connector)
the printer: Main port (A) or Alt port (B).
The default configuration settings for the printer serial ports are: 9600 baud,
even parity, 7 data bits, 1 stop bit, and Standard protocol.