APS CP 295 MRS Technical Reference

Technical reference - Rev. K 1 Advanced Printing Systems CP 295 MRS CP 305 MRS CP 405 MRS ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 2 Advanced Printing Systems 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS CP 295 MRS........................................................................................................................................................... 1 CP 305 MRS............................................................................. ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 3 Advanced Printing Systems 2. GENERAL FEATURES The CP295MRS, CP305MRS and CP405MRS are the world’s first 2 inch, 3 inch and 4 inch, 5 Volt thermal printer mechanisms with an integrated control board using serial and parallel communications. The height of the mechanisms plus board is less than 27 mm, ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 4 Advanced Printing Systems 3. REVISION HISTORY REV. DATE PAGE REVISION ITEM A 08/Jul/99 - First issue B 16/Jul/99 - Switch/Led connector + 80 columns font change C 05/Nov/99 - Led flashing + control code corrections + connectors location on drawing D 1/Dec/00 - 1.35, 1.36 firmware revision: No black ma ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 5 Advanced Printing Systems 4. GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS ITEM SPECIFICATION Print method Thermal dot-line printing Dimension WxDxH (mm) CP295MRS 91 x 55 x 20 CP305MRS 121 x 55 x 20 CP405MRS 156 x 55 x 27 Total dots CP295MRS 384 CP305MRS 576 CP405MRS 832 Dot density 8 dots/mm Paper width CP295MRS 60 mm ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 6 Advanced Printing Systems 5. PRINTER DEVICE INTERCONNECTION Please refer to the drawing attached to back of this specification for connect or positions. These printers are fully hot plug : any connector hereafter can be connected or disconnected without damaging the printer. 5.1 Power supply connector ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 7 Advanced Printing Systems 5.3 Switch/Led connector Connector J3: MOLEX, 53048 Series 4 contacts. Female 51021 Series contacts 50079/50058. PIN NUMBER SIGNAL NAME 1 Gnd 2 ON/OFF line 3 Paper FEED 4 LED (cathode) This connector allows you to design an external paper feed button, on-line off-line button, ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 8 Advanced Printing Systems 5.4 Parallel communication connector Connector J4: MOLEX, 53048 Series 15 contacts. Female 51021 Series contacts 50079/50058. PIN NUMBER SIGNAL NAME 1 \AUTOFEED 2 BUSY 3 D7 4 D6 5 D5 6 D4 7 D3 8 D2 9 D1 10 D0 11 PE 12 \INIT 13 GND 14 \STB 15 \ACK 5.5 Sleep mode disable connec ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 9 Advanced Printing Systems 5.6 Timing for parallel communication The communication protocol is Centronics compatible, and has the ability to handle the “Compatibility Mode” (Write from the Host to the Printer), and also the “Byte Mode”, for the host to read internal data from the printer. The � ...

Technical reference - Rev. K 10 Advanced Printing Systems 5.6.2 Byte Mode timing (host reads data from printer) In this mode, the data transfer controlled is given by the host, but tCycle must not exceed 0.5 seconds 5.7 Serial / Parallel mode selection Serial or Parallel mode will be chosen via software automatically after the firs ...