{"id":265363,"date":"2023-08-03T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/?p=265363"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:54:20","slug":"what-communication-interface-do-i-have-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/2023\/08\/03\/what-communication-interface-do-i-have-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What communication interface do I have?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ithaca\u00a0280 printer can be purchased with several different communication interfaces. Please use the below chart to identify which interface your printer has:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9 pin Serial Interface<\/strong><br>Cable Required: Serial Null Modem Cable, 9 pin female to 9 pin female.<br>This cable is available for purchase from us.<br>Item No: 10-2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/297.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265364\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>36 pin Centronics Parallel Interface<\/strong><br>Cable Required: Parallel Cable, 25 pin male to 36 pin Centronics male.<br>This cable is available for purchase from us.<br>Item No: 253-9800002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"79\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/299.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265367\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>USB Interface<\/strong><br>Cable Required: USB Cable This cable is available for purchase from us.<br>Item No: 98-04322<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265370\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ethernet Interface<\/strong><br>Cable Required: CAT-5 Ethernet cable<br>This cable is not available for purchase from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/301.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265373\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>25 pin Parallel Interface<\/strong><br>Cable Required: Parallel Cable, 25 pin male to 25 pin male.<br>This cable is available for purchase from us.<br>Item No: 253-9800007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/298.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265376\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>25 pin Serial Interface<\/strong><br>Cable Required: Serial Null Modem Cable, 9 pin female to 25 pin male.<br>This cable is available for purchase from us.<br>Item No: 253-9800006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/298.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265376\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Caution: The 25 pin Parallel and 25 pin Serial interfaces look exactly the same externally.\u00a0 They both use a 25 pin D-shell connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/303.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265379\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A closer look will reveal that the electronics on the actual interfaces boards are different. The best way to determine which 25 pin communication interface is present in the printer is to print a configuration listing from the printer. This listing will show either RS232 Serial or P1284 Parallel. See Manual Configuration for how to print out this listing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"98\" src=\"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/08\/302.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265382\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ithaca\u00a0280 printer can be purchased with several different communication interfaces. Please use the below chart to identify which interface your printer has: 9 pin Serial InterfaceCable Required: Serial Null Modem Cable, 9 pin female to 9 pin female.This cable is available for purchase from us.Item No: 10-2020 36 pin Centronics Parallel InterfaceCable Required: Parallel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ithaca-280-support-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}