Features:
- Adds one bidirectional AT-compatible printer port to a SIMATIC M7 automation computer.
- Supports the established 03BC, 0378 and 0278 hexadecimal LPT address choices.
- Uses a standard 25-pin D-sub connection for a short Centronics peripheral cable.
The selected part is the IF 962-LPT hardware interface with submodule code 44H.
It enables direct communication with a supported parallel peripheral from the M7 application environment.
Address assignment, driver support and cable length should be validated before transferring an existing printer workflow.
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- Legacy machine systems can print batch labels through the same parallel path used by the original M7 application.
- Process computers can send shift or quality reports to an attached Centronics printer.
- Test equipment may exchange byte-wide peripheral data where the documented bidirectional port mode is supported.
- The external port follows the bidirectional Centronics parallel interface convention.
- Peripheral wiring uses a 25-pin D-sub connector and a cable of about 3 m or less.
- A 16C552-compatible device provides the hardware interface inside the submodule.
- The submodule is designed for SIMATIC M7-300 and M7-400 carrier environments.
- Connected printers or peripherals must support the electrical and timing behavior of a PC parallel port.
- Application software must address the same LPT resource used by the former installation.
- The operating system or application driver determines how the Centronics channel is accessed.
- No fieldbus firmware conversion is required because the submodule exposes a hardware LPT interface.
- Software migration should preserve the configured hexadecimal base address and printer control sequence.