Many machines and devices are still using floppy disk drives as the only means of data input.
CNC, milling, injection mold, or embroidery machines, laser cutting devices and integrated control systems, just to mention a few,
are still being fed data with floppy disks several times a day.
Swap your legacy floppy diskette drive for the new USB floppy emulator!
From now on use reliable USB pen drives instead of vulnerable diskettes!
Good news for you:
You won’t ever need floppies anymore and yet you’ll be able to secure a guaranteed long-term future for your machines and systems.
USB Printer to parallel Centronics Interface at the Embedded World 2010
USB-equipped printers are becoming increasingly popular on the industrial market.
Now, imagine yourself in need of spare parts for your conventional log printer when the suppliers are gradually running out of stock because the item is being
phased out – and this in times of growing reporting demands.
Well, thanks to the ipcas Centronics to USB Converter there is no need to worry
anymore:
The Centronics to USB Converter easily connects to existing printer interfaces, saving you time and costs for refitting machines or interfaces.
Moreover, it is ready to run and enables you to print all kinds of log and graphics formats with a standard USB printer in black and white or color.
The ipcas Centronics – USB Converter generally allows you to connect modern USB printers to older parallel interface machines or devices to file log reports.
All you have to do then is simply replace your conventional log printer with a standard USB or network printer – without having to install time-consuming
printer drivers.
You can also easily output data on a USB Stick and change over to a paperless logging system, thus saving time, costs, and material.
Moreover, the data can be archived in a database and made readily available for further processing at a mouse-click. Alternatively,
also available with RS232 / Serial Interface.
Photos of the Centronics to USB Converter: Photographed today at the Embedded World 2010 / Nuremberg Germany
The video shows the Centronics – USB Converter at Embedded World (ipcas exhibition stand 555 in Hall 12.0).
The laptop in the background prints log data. The converter is connected to the parallel port, instead of a printer. The Centronics – USB Converter collects the print data and prints them here in parallel to an old dot matrix printer (with Centronics interface) and a USB printer.
The log data is printed line by line on the dot matrix printer. The converter buffers the data so long until a full page of A4, and prints them out on the USB printer. That saves paper. Each log line can be tagged with a time stampstamp.
One device – Numerous possibilities, Embedded System with digital and analog IO’s.
The LINUX Box LB3 is a full-fledged industrial PC with a pre-installed Linux operating system and a DIN rail case mounting design.
The LB3 has been specially conceived for installation in switching cabinets of machines, plants, and buildings. Windows CE or Free
Dos can also be used as alternatives to the Linux operating system. In its basic version the LB3 is equipped with 128MB RAM and
an additional 128MB ROM (CompactFlash) which can be optionally expanded. Due to its numerous integrated interfaces such as USB,
Ethernet, serial/parallel interfaces or the digital IO´s and the possibility to extend IO’s with an IO Extension Box, the LB3’s
function range covers most of the applications frequently requested by customers. Among them are notable applications such as:
We will be more than glad to support you with first-hand information on our highly innovative Hardware and Software products and concepts.
We would be happy to see you and give you a live display of our produce from March 2 to 4, 2010 at Stand 555 in Hall 12 in the Nuremberg Trade Fair Center.
We wish you and your kin all the best for Christmas and lots of success, happiness and good health for the year 2010.
Your ipcas team (from ipcas GmbH) wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christmas is the time for contemplation and reminiscing all the fleeting experiences and surprises, ups and downs, of the past year. New Year is the time to look ahead full of hope, formulate your goals, focus your on your aims and to tackle your chores with new energy.
Due to popular requests we have added the executable programming sample ConsoleTest (including source code) to the download section of the Ethernet terminal.
Additionally, you will also find a programming interface (DLL class library for. NET) with extensive documentation and code samples for Visual Basic, C#, Visual C++ and JavaScript.
DLL documentation for Visual Basic, C#, Visual C++ and JavaScript.
Due to the substantial rise in demand we were able to increase our output and, consequently, lower production costs for our USB-Floppy Emulator. Naturally, we would like to share our success with our customers by lowering its price.
