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UBI EasyCoder 501 – Technical Manual
SETUP PARAMETERS, cont'd.
Continued!
Serial Communication
• Baudrate
• Parity
• Character Length
• Stop Bits
• Flow Control
• New Line
Contrast
This chapter explains the meaning of the various setup parameters.
There are different ways to change the setup:
• By means of the Setup Mode, see the chapters “Setting Up
EasyCoder 501” and ”Setting Up EasyCoder 501 E & 501 SA”.
• By means of the Terminal Setup option in UBI Shell, see the UBI
Shell Standard and Enhanced Startup Manuals.
• By means of setup files or setup strings. See the UBI Fingerprint
Reference Manual,
SETUP
statement, or the UBI Direct Protocol
Programmer's Guide.
Note that the following setup options are excluded in the Easy-
Coder 501 printer model:
• Serial communication setup for communication channels "uart2:"
and "uart3:" (no extra serial interface boards can be connected).
• Communication buffer setup for communication channels "uart2:"
and "uart3:" (no extra serial interface boards can be connected).
• Performance setup (fixed print speed setup).
The contrast setup allows you to make minor adjustment of the
printout in regard of blackness, e.g. to adapt the printer to variations
in quality between different batches of the same paper quality.
The serial communication setup controls the communication be-
tween the printer and the connected computer or other devices on
the standard serial channel "uart1:" and the optional serial channels
"uart2:" and "uart3:". The latter two channels require an optional
interface board to be fitted. The printer's firmware detects if an
optional interface board is fitted and presents additional sets of
communication setup menus for each serial channel.
The serial communication setup has no consequence whatsoever
for parallel communication via an optional parallel interface
board or for the
IN
and
OUT
ports on the optional Industrial
Interface Board.
For each serial communication channel, the following parameters
can be set. Make sure they match the setup of the connected device
or vice versa. The default setup (indicated by bold characters below)
is selected as to make the printer understand and act upon UBI
Fingerprint instructions transmitted from the host, regardless how
the host is set up. If the setup of the printer and the setup of the host
do not match, the response from the printer to host will be garbled.
