User's Manual

Using the 6820 Printer Configuration Utility
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6820 Series 80-Column Printer User’s Manual
Connecting to the Printer
Connect your printer to your desktop computer via a serial cable. The seri-
al COM Port connector on either your Fixed Mount Printer or your Por-
table Printer is on your printer mechanism, the same side as the green
thumb wheel.
Reset button
Printer
mechanism
(raised)
COM Port connector
Be sure to locate and disconnect the gray terminal holder ribbon cable
connector from the floor of the printer cavity. The cable is located behind
the printer mechanism on the same side as the green thumb wheel and is
the one that is not attached to the printer mechanism.
Disconnect this terminal holder
ribbon cable from the floor of
the printer cavity
Ignore this cable attached
to the printer mechanism.
Intermec Technologies provides a printer configuration utility based on
several operating systems that may be used on your host computer. Below
are the operating systems for which the configuration utility is written. Se-
lect your operating system, then go to that page to begin instructions for
your particular configuration utility.
S If your host computer has either Windows 95 or Windows 98, go to
page 38 for instructions.
S If your host computer has Windows 2000 or Windows XP, go to page
53.