how to connect HP4194A to a printer

I could find it in the manual explaining how to connect HP4194A to a printer. What kind of printers can i connect. Am i suppose to use 8bit I/O port?

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Have you checked their website for a manual?

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Michael A. Terrell

i have checked in agilent and i have used the HP printer ( HP 930C) listed in the supported. How to set the HP 4194A to print with the printer connected?Could not find in the manual of HP4194A.

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krishmaniac

I think you set the printer to "listen always" and then hit a "print" button on the 4194A and away it goes. The secret is setting the printer to "listen always".

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carneyke

Forgot to mention. The above information is for HP printers with HPIB interface. I think the 930C is a newer unit and doesn't have HPIB (IEEE-488).

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I do not see any option in my printer HP 930C to set it into listen mode. Initially i was using 4194A with a HP plotter 7550. It used to work fine till it was borrowed by my student. Now when i on my plotter it gives message "no optional memory loaded". I could not figure out the problem so thought of phasing out the older plotter and use the printer HP 930C. I can see from hp website the 4194A can be interfaced with the HP 930C.

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Supported_Printer.pdf) Still not able to fix it. I am connecting it printer to the I/O port of the 4194A. How can i reconfigure 4194A to dump the screen shot to the printer via i/o port. The manual seems almost redutant for users like me. I could not find any useful information in it.

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krishmaniac

The 930 is either Centronics or USB. HP defaulted to the HPIB/GPIB interface. There is a sub menu on most newer HP equipment to select the output interface, but its been over five years since I've had anything in front of me that had this feature. Play with all the menus, but don't change anything you don't need to. Either that, or find one of the old HP printers with the proper interface. I think it was a tiny printer called a "Thinkjet".

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Michael A. Terrell

Mike, How you been doing ? Health ??

Good advice on finding an older plotter or the "thinkjet" / "paintjet". The only problem is getting pens / cartridges as HP obsoleted them. Finding a working plotter / printer from the mid

1980's time frame will be difficult too.

Another option is buy a Centronics to IEEE488 convertor from Black Box Corp. The convertor would go between the 4194's IEEE bus and the printers input cable.

Original poster should find out what interface his 960C uses and contact Black Box Corp with his problem. All this information is close to 10 years old. I don't know if Black Box makes these devices anymore.

I used one of their devices to convert IEEE488 bus to RS-232. I was programming some instruments years ago (HP Basic) and it was easier to do it that way (versus using the PC's serial port and the IEEE488).

Good Luck, Kevin

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carneyke

You may want to investigate this device:

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Read the manual and FAQ for information on other programs you can use to transfer the plotter information to your PC and plot it on a Windows supported printer.

The User's Manual for the 4194A is available at:

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There is also a Printer Compatibility document available at:
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See footnote 2 for the GPIB to Parallel converter that is available from Microprint.

Since most currently available printers have USB only, you may be better off in the long run with some of the software programs available. Google

7470.exe as a starting place. There is also a program called Plottergeist that you may want to check out.

Hope this helps.

Dave

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I don't know if any of the Commodore 4023 GPIB printers I have still work, but there are about a dozen in storage.

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Michael A. Terrell

Thanks a lot for the replies and help. I understand now that i goto buy some HPIB to parallel converter to interface the printer. Since the HP4194A is already obsolete and i got pretty old one still working, i do not want to spend another thousand dollars buying the converter. I would like to use the I/O 8bit port available at the back of 4194A to interface with printer. Do you think its possible. the manual just mentions that this I/O can be used to interface the peripherals. If anyone has done this before, it would be wonderful if you can let me know how. Thanks to all. kristo

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krishmaniac

The Black Box converters were about $200 (US). I don't think the I/O port will plot / print the screen. I calibrate the 4194's at my job, they are very reliable.

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Check Ebay for the converter.

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