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Ithaca Series 60 Impact Printer

All Ithaca Peripherals Series 60 printers have both a serial and parallel interface. 

Parallel Port Connector
The INIT\ (Initialize) printer input acts as a hardware reset to the printer. This signal must be inactive (high) for about 4 seconds before the printer will respond to information input.
The PE signal is asserted by the printer whenever the journal paper is exhausted and an attempt is made to print on the journal. The PE signal is also asserted in response to [ENQ] commands. If the printer does not have a journal this signal is only used for [ENQ] commands.
The ERR\ signal is asserted if a head jam occurs or if the PE signal is asserted for a true paper error.
NOTE: The "AUTOFD" (Auto feed Pin 14) and "SLIN" (Select input Pin 17) signals are not used by the series 60 printers.
 

Pin 1
STROBE
Clock Data to printer
Host to Printer
Pin 2-9
D0 - D7
Data
Host to Printer
Pin 10
ACK\
Printer Accepted Data
Printer to Host
Pin 11
BUSY
Printer is Busy
Printer to Host
Pin 12
PE
Paper Out / Status
Printer to Host
Pin 13
SLCT
Printer Selected
Printer to Host
Pin 14
AUTOFD
Auto feed paper
Host to Printer
Pin 15
ERR\
Printer Error
Printer to Host
Pin 16
INIT\
Initialize the Printer
Host to Printer
Pin 17
SLIN
Select Printer
Host to Printer
Pin 18-25
GND
Ground
 
                                                                  Parallel Port Pin-outs

 

 

Serial Port
The serial port features are as follows:

Baud Rates
300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19.2K
Bit Patterns
8 Bit No Parity, 8 Bit Odd, 8 Bit Even, 7 Bit No Parity, 7 Bit Odd, 7 Bit Even
Flow Control
DRT and XON/XOFF

It should be noted that the 7 bit no parity is in fact an 8 bit format. The implementation of the hardware UART in the Intel 8051 family will not implement a true 7 bit no parity format. If the host provides a true 7 bit no parity format, it must be configured with 2 stop bits.
Serial Port Pin-out

Pin 1
DCD
Data Carrier Detect
Pin 2
RX
Receive Data
Pin 3
TX
Transmit Data
Pin 4
DTR
Data Terminal Ready
Pin 5
GND
Signal Ground
Pin 6
DSR
Data Set Ready
Pin 7
RTS
Request To Send
Pin 8
CTS
Clear To Send
Pin 9
SSD
Secondary Data

Because both the host and the printer are DTE's (Data Terminal Equipment) they use the same serial port pin-outs. If the cable that is used to connect the host to the printer is a pin-to-pin interconnect it will not work. For this reason a null modem or turn-around cable must be used to interconnect the host and the printer.

 
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