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Solution/Action:
First, you must have a utility loaded on the
host that will be used for capturing the data:
SCAPTURE.EXE. This is available on the Tally web-site. Select
Line Printers then "Support" then "Drivers and Utilities". The
file will be in the Utilities section.
At the printer, turn on Tech Access then access
the Serial Dump function by doing the following menu sequence:
TEST => Diag => Serial Dump => ON
At the host, RUN the Scapture.exe file. Follow
the instructions to set the Serial I/O
parameters and then click on "Start Capture".
Back at the printer, go ONLINE and have the file
transmitted. As the printer prints thefile it is also routed to
the serial port and the capture routine on the host.
After the file finishes printing, SAVE IT.
Assign a file name [it can be anything - a good file extension
would be ".txt" (example cap1.txt)]. It may be best to save the
file to the root directory of your C: drive or to a specific
folder at the DOS level.
To play it back to the printer, use the parallel
(Centronics) port. Go to the DOS prompt and send the file using
the copy and "binary" commands. (Example - assuming the file is
in your root directory - copy /b cap1.txt lpt1 ENTER. Please
note there are "spaces" in the command string so that your
actual entry looks like copy "space" /b "space" cap1.txt "space"
lpt1 ENTER.)
You can send the file repeatedly to the printer
while you change different parameters in
the menu to see if you can make the application perform
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