User Guide
Table Of Contents
- About This Document
- Contents
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Print Operations
- Determining Printer Configuration
- Long Term Printer In-activity or Storage
- Thermal Printing
- Modes of Printing
- Print Media Types
- Replacing Supplies
- Adjusting the Print Width
- Adjusting the Print Quality
- Media Sensing
- Ribbon Overview
- Printing on Fan-Fold Media
- Printing with Externally Mounted Roll Media
- Fonts and Your Printer
- Stand Alone Printing
- Sending Files to the Printer
- Print Meter
- EPL Line Mode
- Printer Options
- Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: Interface Wiring
- Appendix: Dimensions
- Appendix: ZPL Configuration
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Getting Started
Connecting your Printer to a Computer
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Parallel Port
The required cable must have a 25 pin “D” type (DB-25P) male connector on one and a
Centronics on the end (IEEE 1284 A-B parallel interface specification). Early models of G-
Series printers originally supported parallel cables with two 25 pin “D” type (DB-25P) male
connectors on both ends (IEEE 1284 A-A parallel interface specification).
Parallel Cable