Printer Woes!
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Ok, then you should have the following connections in the IBM cable:
db25 end Centronics end
1 (STROBE) 1
2 (DATA 1) 2
3 (DATA 2) 3
4 (DATA 3) 4
5 (DATA 4) 5
6 (DATA 5) 6
7 (DATA 6) 7
8 (DATA 7) 8
9 (DATA 8) 9
10 (ACK) 10
11 (BUSY) 11
12 (PAPER OUT) 12
13 (SELECT) 36
14 (+5v) NO CONNECTION
15 (NO CONNECTION) NO CONNECTION
16 (RESET) 31
17-25 (GROUND) 19-30
(17-25 and 19-30 may be strapped on the connector and carried by a
single physcial wire)
If you have a cable tester…you might want to test the cable to
make sure those wires are hooked up as shown above…Also, you may want to
check the pin out on your printer to make sure that they follow the above.
(BTW…some pinouts label data1 thru data8 as data0 thru data7 but the
connections are the same).