Installation manual

IQPLUS 800/810 — ELTRON SETUP (USING HOTLINE)

The IQ plus 800/810 interfaces directly with Eltron printers; the KDU keyboard is incompatible.

Indicator Configuration

1. Configure the indicator to send RS-232 serial data out the Printer port to the Eltron printer. Configure the PRINTER

submenu as follows: Baud=9600, Bits=8 none, Termin=CR/LF, EOL DLY=0ms.

Configure the indicator’s EDP port for compatibility with Hotline (Baud=9600, Bits=8 none, Termin=CR/LF, EOL

DLY=0ms).

Because you want demand—rather than continuous—data from the printer port, be certain that the STREAM

parameter is

not

set to the printer port, and that the PRNDEST

set to the printer port.

2. The IQ plus 800/810 has a choice of five print formats: Gross, Net, Truck In, Truck Out, and Setpoint Push Print.

Each of these formats can be modified with Hotline with data strings up to 300 characters in length. The example

at the bottom of the page shows the Gross format.

Hardware Cabling

1. Connect the PC to the printer with the appropriate serial or parallel cable.

If the printer has a parallel connector, use a parallel cable and one of the LPT parallel connectors on the

computer. Parallel transfer is several times faster than serial transfer for downloading label files to the printer.

If the printer only has a DB-9 or DB-25 serial connector, use an RS-232 serial cable and one of the COM

serial connectors on the computer.

2. Wire the RS-232 cable from the RS-232 pins of the printer’s DB-9 connector (2-RXD, 5-GND) to the IQ plus

800/810 serial communication terminal strip (J7-5=TXD and J7-6=GND for the printer port).

3. Wire a serial cable for Hotline communication from one of the serial COM ports of the computer to the EDP

port RS-232 pins of the indicator’s J7 serial communication terminal. The indicator’s EDP port supports

bidirectional RS-232 at pins J7-9 (RXD), J7-11 (TXD), and J7-12 (GND).

Label Creation Example: Gross Print Format

The command string necessary to format and print a Gross Format label is a combination of IQ plus commands

and Eltron programming commands. You will first create the label in the CAL Tools program and save it in the

printer’s memory under a typical name such as GLABL.

You will then use Hotline to modify the indicator’s Gross print format data string to include GLABL within the data

string. Special Eltron programming commands are put into the indicator's gross format string to tell the indicator to

search out and import GLABL, then add gross weight data from the scale in the appropriate place on the label.

You can then disconnect the PC, as neither CAL Tools nor Hotline will be needed further.

To create and download the label:

1. Load CAL Tools onto the attached PC and open the program.

2. Format the label so it looks on screen exactly as you want it to appear when printed.

3. Save the label file as GLABL and download it to the printer.

4. Close out of the CAL Tools program and open the Hotline program.

5. Using Hotline in Monitor Mode, type in GFMT =, then add the GFMT data string desired (see step 6).

RS-232: scale data

RS-232 Serial or

Centronics Parallel

RS-232: Hotline programming to indicator

PC with Create-A-Label Tools program Eltron Printer IQ plus 800/810 Indicator