Rose electronicメーカーCTP-8Sの使用説明書/サービス説明書
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Limi t e d Warr a nt y Copyright Rose Electronics 1990 - 2002. Al l rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed in any form or any means, electronic or mechanical, i ncluding photocopying and recording, without the prior written permissi on of Rose Electronics.
Table of Cont e nt s Contents Discla imer .................................................................................................................... 1 Introducti on ............................................................................
Intr oduction CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 1 D isclaimer While ever y precaut ion has been taken in the pr eparatio n of this m anual, the manufactur er assum es no res ponsibility for er rors or o missio ns.
2 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Model Number and Options The Care tak er Plus consis ts of a switch unit and a separate w all mounted power adapter. It is available in several m odels: 2 to 8 por ts, either serial or paralle l, and Centronics tyhpe con nectors or Db25 ty pe connectors.
FRONT PANEL DI S P L AY CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 3 Caretake r Plus Front Panel Di splay POWER LED is lit w henever t he unit is p owered on. ADVANCE and SELE CT switche s are used to enter the con figuration menu, go i nto diagnostic mo des, or clear the buffer.
QUICK SE TUP LIST – Ser ia l Uni ts 4 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Serial Set - Up for PCs 1. Connect y our PC to port 1 on t he Caretaker Plu s with the proper cable. 2. Connect th e power adapter t o the Caret aker Plus and tur n the Caretaker P lus on.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 5 Caretake r Plus Rear Panel – Serial Model The diagra m below show s the connector arrange ment for model #CTP - 8S. It has nine serial por ts. The C TP - 4S is s imilar but it doesn't have ports 5 - 8.
QUICK SE TUP LIST – Paralle l Unit s 6 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Parallel S et - Up 1. Connect th e Caretaker Plu s port 0 to y our printer with t he correct cable. Connect your comput ers to ports 1 - 8 w ith the correc t ca bles .
C ABLING CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 7 One of the m os t impor tant ste ps in installing th e Caretaker P lus is to c onnect the correct cables. W e have tri ed to give as muc h informatio n as possible to specify t he correct cable.
8 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL to indicate entry into confi guration mode. Enter ing config uration mode will stop data transfer to the shared dev ic e, and also era se all data in the buffer. N o new data can be loaded into t he unit while in c onfigur ation mode.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 9 Configuration M enu Ite ms In the ex amples below, <EN TER> means "press the EN TER key ", not "type the character s <ENTER >. Output f rom the Caretak er Plus i s show n i n courier ty pe.
10 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Form Feed The form f eed, when enabled, sends a form feed c haracter to the shared device to ej ect the last page printed when a port is di sconnected. The fa ctory default is a disable d form feed.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 11 Exit This comm and is used t o ex it the confi guration men u and return the un it to normal (data transfer) m ode.
12 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Reverse C hannel Dat a Timeo ut This comm and (on the a dvanced feature s menu) deter mines w hether or not to reset the timeout clo c k when data is rec eived on port O "r everse c hannel data" .
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 13 Configuration Commands Configurati on commands all ow changing of the u nit's se tup paramet ers w ithout the U se of a menu. T hey may be used on serial or paral lel units. T o enable proce ssing of configura tion command s, depress both of the unit' s front panel sw itches.
14 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Protocol Com mand This comm and change s the co mmunicati on protoc ol of a giv en port. If you ente r a protocol t hat block s communic ation.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 15 Parallel En able Logic Comm and This comm and allow s the Caretaker Plu s to recogn ize when a computer that i s con nected to a parallel port on the Caretaker P lus is t urned o ff so that the Careta k er Plus will not accept data from the PC.
OPERAT IONS 16 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL In itial State Fol lowing t he succe ssful comp letion of the pow er up tests, the Car etaker P lus turns a ll the port LED s off. T he BUSY L ED may be lit if th e shared dev ice is busy.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 17 Buffer C haracteri stics Th e switch may hav e a buffer memory of 16K , 256 K , 512K, 1 megabyte, or 2 megaby tes.
18 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Timeout The default setti ng of 20 seconds is sufficient f or most applic ations. Some comput ers, howev er, start print ing and then pau se to do so me type of c alculation or processing and then resu me printing.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 19 Initialization St ring The initializ ation string i s used to reset th e printer to a def ined state at the begi nning of eac h job. In this way the prin ter settings of the last per son to print do n ot affect the print sett ings of the next person to pr int.
20 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Power Up Initial D isplay When pow ering on, th e Careta ker Plus goes thro ugh a p ower up s elf - test w hich checks the main fun ctions of its ele c tronic s. The lef tmost LED labele d POWER should glow green and the other r ed LEDs should a ll turn on.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 21 Static Ram R ead /Write Test The nex t test is for static r am . Since the Careta ker Plus has no st atic ram, this test is displayed as show n in TABLE 6 for consis tency w ith other Rose produ cts.
22 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Flow Control D isplay Mode (Serial Models O nly) By pressing t he ADVANCE sw itch during n ormal operation, the LED d isplay is switched t o the flow control display mode. The M ODE LED ill uminates to indicate t his mode is act ive.
TROUBLESHOO TING CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 23 Troubleshooting Common Probl ems and Sol utions I. Missing blo cks of data on shared dev ice an d/or buffer Overfl ow error display occurs - serial only A.
24 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL V. Port(s) do not time out A. ' Rob ust' X - on /X-o ff present. Some print ers, part icularly th e HP LaserJet, se nd X - on codes at timed intervals. Set the 'REVERSE CHANNEL DATA TIMEOUT' feature to Y.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 25 Maintenance and Re pair T he ex terior surface of the un it may be wiped with a da mp cloth to keep it c lean.
DIAGNOSTI CS 26 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL Diagnostic Modes The Caretak er Plus has an extensive self - te st diagnostic cap ability. N ormally th es e features ar e only accessed by a technician to determine a fai lure w ith the unit .
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 27 Print Configur ation/Te st Pattern Fun ction Holding bo th switches down at the end o f test 4 causes th e unit to print it s conf iguration out to port O, as shown in TAB LE 8.
DIAGNOSTI CS 28 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL L ong Test With out Loopback T his group of tests are entere d by pressing the select switch only while p ower ing up th e unit with th e on/off switch. A ll equipment shou ld be disconne cted from the unit p rior to running th is tes t.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 29 Long Test with Loopba ck This test i s entered by pre ssing the advance switch on ly while powering up the unit wit h the on/off switch. S pecial loopbac k connector s should b e connected to ea ch Caretaker Plus port.
APPENDICES 30 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL A ppendix A: Serial Cabling Th e diagrams below show the Caretak er Plus p inout on the left and all ot her dev ices on the right. R ead acro s s to f ind the pinout . Co nnector type s shown below refer to the connector on the device, no t on the cab l e.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 31 A ppendix B: Pi nout Specifications Serial M odels DB 25 Female Pin Signal Name Acr on ym I/O Description 2 Transmit data TXD Output Serial da.
32 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL A ppendix C: M P 1000 Memory Board T his memory board pr ovides o ptio nal, add - on bu ffer expansi on for the Car etaker Plus. I nstalling t his board expands the Caretaker Plus buffer from the s tandard 64K to 256K , 5 12K, or 1 M B.
CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL 33 Installing the Board Carefully pl ug the expansion pins of th e board (the fir st board , if using two) ont o the motherboar d's sockets w here the 64K chips w ere removed. F asten the board dow n using the tw o threaded spacer s.
34 CARET AKER PLU S INST ALLATION AND OPER ATIONS M ANUAL A ppendix D: Fact ory Defaults U pon receivin g the Caretaker Plus fr om the fact ory, or restor ing the unit t o default para meter s (see &a.
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