Rear Panel Connections
Phaser 840 printer connectors
The rear panel of the Phaser 840 printer features the host interface connectors to the
printer:
Standard parallel (high-density connector), IEEE 1284C.
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Twisted Pair (10BaseT) Ethernet connector.
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A Universal Serial Bus port.
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Optional SCSI high-density connector (hard disk drive or Tektronix-approved
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scanner).
A special 5-pin connector accommodates a service RS-232 cable from a PC or
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Macintosh computer running PC-based diagnostics.
The rear panel also includes two option slots. With the addition of a PhaserShare network
card in one slot, the printer can feature either of these connector combinations:
LocalTalk connector
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ThinNet (10Base2) and Twisted Pair (100BaseT) Ethernet or Token Ring
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connectors.
When an Ethernet or Token Ring PhaserShare card is installed,
Note
the printer's built-in 10BaseT Ethernet port is disabled.
The second slot accommodates an internal IDE hard drive for print job collation, job
accounting, font storage and PDF direct printing.
PhaserShare
Ethernet Card
SCSI
Fig 1-17 Phaser 840 printer rear panel
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100
Series B
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RX
TP
LINK
10/100Base-TX
Ethernet
10BaseT
Service
RS-232
10Base2
Parallel USB
General Information
IDE hard drive
Network card
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