Setting up the hardware for terminal-attached printers

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There are several steps you must perform when setting up hardware for terminal-attached printers.

Before adding the printer to your system, perform the following steps:

  1. Connect the serial printer to the auxiliary port of your terminal using an EIA 232 modem cable (IBM® cable D). A null-modem cable is not needed on the AUX port of an IBM 3151 terminal.
  2. Make note of the following settings for your printer: line speed, word length (or bits-per-character), parity (odd, even, no, space, mark), and the number of stop bits.