POSIFLEX Business Machines PP-7000-III, PP-7000U-III User Manual

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Aura Series

(PP-7000-III / PP-7000U-III)

THERMAL PRINTER

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

A. INTERFACES

1. Peripheral interface

The connector for peripheral control is a 6P6C RJ11 jack with
the following pin assignment. The best recommended cash drawers to
this connector are Posiflex CR3100, CR3200, CR4000 and CR4100.
Using the cable 20863018001 (CCBLA-180-1) delivered with the
cash drawer, the Aura series can control one dedicated cash drawer.
However, by using an optional split cable 20867023800 (CCBLA-

238), Aura series controls two cash drawers through this connector.
Please connect the CR1 plug to the cash drawer (CRA) to be opened
by command Esc p 1 n1 n2 and the CR2 plug to the cash drawer
(CRB) to be opened by command Esc p 0 n1 n2

6P6C RJ11 jack

6 pin plug

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Drawer kick for cash drawer controlled by

Drawer kick for cash drawer controlled by

RS232 baud rate definition or Parallel interface definition

PIN # Definition Description

1 FG Frame ground
2 CRB
3 SENSE Input peripheral status

4 VCC + 24 V DC supply
5 CRA
6 SG Signal ground

software command Esc p 0 n1 n2

software command Esc p 1 n1 n2

B. SETUP WINDOW

On bottom cover of the Aura series thermal printer, there is
screwed a metal plate for setup window. In this window, there is
a 8 position DIP switch for printer setup. Please use proper tool
to change the switch setting when necessary. The switch
position counting starts from the nearest edge of printer. The
ON direction points to the connector area of the printer. The
OFF direction points to the power switch. The functions of each
position may evolve with the revisions of the firmware. The
information below applies to the latest version to the date of
print of this manual.

This 8 position DIP switch works as following:

Switch

position

ON OFF

1

(ref. separate table below)

2
3 Even parity None parity
4 XON handshaking Hardware handshaking
5 Busy on “buffer full” Busy on “off line”
6 Immediate cut Protective cut
7 CR code effective CR code ineffective
8 Factory internal setting Application standard mode

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Effect of positions 1 & 2 on baud rate is defined as in table below
with parity check set according to position 3, number of data bits
always set to 8, and stop bit set to 1. When the parallel interface is
used, please set both positions to ON.

SW Pos. 1
SW Pos. 2

Baud rate

or Interface

ON OFF ON OFF
ON ON OFF OFF

38400 bps /

(Parallel)

4800 bps 9600 bps 19200 bps

Switch position 3 defines the parity check regulation in serial

interface. In Aura, it is selectable between even and none.

Switch position 4 defines the handshaking method in serial
interface. When it is set to ON, the printer transmits an “XOFF” for
busy and sends an “XON” for not busy. When it is set to OFF, the
printer signifies the busy status over hardware signals that can be
detected by the host as “DSR” or “CTS”. When parallel interface is
used, both switch positions 3 and 4 should be set to OFF.

For switch position 5, if the switch is set to ON, the busy signal is
sent to host only when input buffer is full. When it is set to OFF, busy
signal is sent to host whenever an off line status occurs. Therefore,
signals including the paper near end detect will generate busy signal to
the host. Consequently, the printing may be stopped even when there is
still a long way to go before the paper roll is actually exhausted. Taking
the paper out beep into consideration, the printer will keep on beeping
at Paper End (completely no paper) till paper is replaced when S1-5 is
ON. Yet when S1-5 is OFF, the printer will keep on beeping every 3
seconds at Paper Near End (still long paper in replace) till paper is
replaced.

For switch position 6, when it is set to OFF, there will be a 20
mm paper feed before cutting when software does not define this point
and there will be further 10 mm paper after cutting to prevent paper jam.
Before setting this switch to ON, please make sure that your software
will take care of enough paper feed for the paper jam prevention issue.

For switch position 8, when it is set to ON in the field, the printer
maybe subject to unpredictable damages and must be strictly prevented.

The factory default for each position is listed below:

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