I could find it in the manual explaining how to connect HP4194A to a
printer. What kind of printers can i connect. Am i suppose to use 8bit
I/O port?
printer. What kind of printers can i connect. Am i suppose to use 8bit
I/O port?
[email protected] said:I could find it in the manual explaining how to connect HP4194A to a
printer. What kind of printers can i connect. Am i suppose to use 8bit
I/O port?
i have checked in agilent and i have used the HP printer ( HP 930C)
listed in the supported. How to set the HP 4194A to print with the
printer connected?Could not find in the manual of HP4194A.
I think you set the printer to "listen always" and then hit a "print"
button on the 4194A and away it goes. The secret is setting the
printer to "listen always".
[email protected] said:i have checked in agilent and i have used the HP printer ( HP 930C)
listed in the supported. How to set the HP 4194A to print with the
printer connected?Could not find in the manual of HP4194A.
Mike,The 930 is either Centronics or USB. HP defaulted to the HPIB/GPIB
interface. There is a sub menu on most newer HP equipment to select the
output interface, but its been over five years since I've had anything
in front of me that had this feature. Play with all the menus, but
don't change anything you don't need to. Either that, or find one of
the old HP printers with the proper interface. I think it was a tiny
printer called a "Thinkjet".
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You may want to investigate this device:I could find it in the manual explaining how to connect HP4194A to a
printer. What kind of printers can i connect. Am i suppose to use 8bit
I/O port?
carneyke said:Mike,
How you been doing ? Health ??
Good advice on finding an older plotter or the "thinkjet" /
"paintjet". The only problem is getting pens / cartridges as HP
obsoleted them. Finding a working plotter / printer from the mid
1980's time frame will be difficult too.
Another option is buy a Centronics to IEEE488 convertor from Black Box
Corp. The convertor would go between the 4194's IEEE bus and the
printers input cable.
Original poster should find out what interface his 960C uses and
contact Black Box Corp with his problem. All this information is close
to 10 years old. I don't know if Black Box makes these devices
anymore.
I used one of their devices to convert IEEE488 bus to RS-232. I was
programming some instruments years ago (HP Basic) and it was easier to
do it that way (versus using the PC's serial port and the IEEE488).
Good Luck, Kevin
Thanks a lot for the replies and help. I understand now that i goto
buy some HPIB to parallel converter to interface the printer. Since
the HP4194A is already obsolete and i got pretty old one still
working, i do not want to spend another thousand dollars buying the
converter. I would like to use the I/O 8bit port available at the back
of 4194A to interface with printer. Do you think its possible. the
manual just mentions that this I/O can be used to interface the
peripherals. If anyone has done this before, it would be wonderful if
you can let me know how. Thanks to all.
kristo
[email protected] said:Thanks a lot for the replies and help. I understand now that i goto
buy some HPIB to parallel converter to interface the printer. Since
the HP4194A is already obsolete and i got pretty old one still
working, i do not want to spend another thousand dollars buying the
converter. I would like to use the I/O 8bit port available at the back
of 4194A to interface with printer. Do you think its possible. the
manual just mentions that this I/O can be used to interface the
peripherals. If anyone has done this before, it would be wonderful if
you can let me know how. Thanks to all.
kristo