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OPERATION MANUAL

Customer VFD pole display

JP-8034 USB

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©Jarltech International Inc. 2007. All rights reserved. Under the copyright laws, this manual may not be copied, in whole or in part, without the written consent of Jarltech. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate. Jarltech is not responsible for printing or clerical errors. Jarltech International Inc.

3F, No. 1, Lane 538, Chung Cheng Road, Hsin Tien, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for Class A digital device. Pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to Radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on. The user is encouraged to try correct interference by one or more of the following measures: - Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. - Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. - Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the

receiver is connected. - Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. This booklet is

available from the U.S. government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, Stock NO.004-000-00345-4.

Caution: Any changes of modifications not expressly approved by the grantee of this device could void the user authority to operate the equipment.

Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference. (2) This device must accept any interference received including Interference that may cause undesired operation.

Ultimate is a trademark of Ultimate Technology Corp. Epson is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corp ESC/P and ESC/POS are trademarks of Seiko Epson Corp.

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1. Introduction 2. Installation 3. Custom Programming Tool Appendix I: Specifications

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Introduction

The JP-8034 USB is a 2x20 alphanumeric customer VFD display, Its designed for retail and industrial environments with its outstanding features include high quality vacuum fluorescent display in blue green color, USB interface, easy to use and powerful programming features also compatible with multi-character function (please refer the page 26~31 for the supported international character set)

Product check list:

o JP-8034 Pole display (1) o Product / driver CD (1) o USB interface/power cable (1)

*Please make sure the following items are included with your customer display. If any items are missing, contact your dealer.

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Installation The JP-8034 USB is compatible to USB 1.1 protocol. Step1. Connects the USB “B” type connector to the JP-8034.

Step2. Connects the USB “A” type connector to the PC.

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Note: In addition of another USB “A” type connector is providing power for 8034 only, not for communicates. It will be useful for some PC or terminal that USB port can not provides power max to 500mA current. Then the 8034 can take power via two USB ports for more stable working environment. Step 3: JP-8034 USB driver Installation for Windows

Note: Others OS driver please follow the installation notes in the product CD

1. When you connects 8034 USB to PC USB port. The Windows will find new hardware and ask you to search new hardware automatically, please select [No, not this time] and click [Next] botton.

2. Select Install from a list or specific location.

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3. Select the driver in the product CD, please choose the correct diver for your OS version. (For example: WinXP)

4. OS will install the driver, after complete installation please click [Finish]

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Step 4: Check your Simulated COM port

After you had installed 8034 USB driver, then hardware will assign an USB simulated COM for 8034 USB. You have to check the USB assigned COM port from “Device Manager” of windows operating system before you starting to programming or using 8034 USB. (The picture shows COM5 as an example), the com port number will depend on your system

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Programming Commands

There are four programming modes available for 8034 USB which are Jarltech mode, ESC/POS mode, UTC standard and UTC pass through mode. In this chapter we will always use Jarltech mode as an example and command codes. For other modes or multi-character please refer to appendix II. The user can design own software to show data on the 8034 USB. Simply open the COM port (for example: COM5) and set the protocol to “9600,N,8,1” Then any data send to 8034 will be displayed on the VFD display.

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Appendix I

Specifications Display: Type: Alphanumeric dot matrix vacuum fluorescent display Text Mode: 20 characters x 2 lines Character size: 5mm (W) x 10mm (H) , 5x7 dots Display Color : Blue Green Brightness: 700 cd/m2 Case: Dimension: 215mm (W) x 70mm (H) x 40mm (L) Pole Height: 140mm x 2 pcs Stand & Display case holder height : 77mm Material: ABS Bottom Plate: ABS with metal place, Screw holes available for pole fixed Interface Protocol: USB 1.1, user access 8034 via Virtual COM port.

VCP (Virtual COM Port) Driver support: Microsoft Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / 2003 server / XP / Vista 2003 server 64 / XP 64 / Vista 64 Win CE.NET (4.2, 5.0 required) ARM/Scale, x86 Processor Linux Kernels 2.4 Mac OS X (Intel) 10.4 Tiger or later, Mac OS X, OS8, OS9

Power Requirement: +5V DC from HOST USB port.

450mA required from USB port. Programming: More then 30 control sequences and escape sequences for powerful programming such as move

cursor , cursor home, cursor blink, clear , delete, reset , scrolling, program function block, pause, insert line and special character mode.

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