I use a ph meter at work and it outputs to an Epson Thermal printer M188D. The connection out of the ph meter is RS232 3.5mm male.
My problem is the printer only outputs data on a thermal receipt paper that often stretches 6feet (~3"wide). This is very hard to archive for documentation.
Goal: Can I use the same ph meter but attach it to a computer to save the data for saving to an archive. Amazon and others have cabling to connect the 3.5mm to USB. (once the data is in the computer I can save as .txt, .doc, or .pdf.)
Output device: Thermo Scientific Orion 4-Star Benchtop pH https://www.fishersci.com/shop/prod...ise-benchtop-multiparameter-meter-2/p-3620471
The documentation has baud rates and such so I assume there is more to this than just plugging into a USB computer port for input.
Do you have any suggestions for transferring data to a regular computer?
TIA
My problem is the printer only outputs data on a thermal receipt paper that often stretches 6feet (~3"wide). This is very hard to archive for documentation.
Goal: Can I use the same ph meter but attach it to a computer to save the data for saving to an archive. Amazon and others have cabling to connect the 3.5mm to USB. (once the data is in the computer I can save as .txt, .doc, or .pdf.)
Output device: Thermo Scientific Orion 4-Star Benchtop pH https://www.fishersci.com/shop/prod...ise-benchtop-multiparameter-meter-2/p-3620471
The documentation has baud rates and such so I assume there is more to this than just plugging into a USB computer port for input.
Do you have any suggestions for transferring data to a regular computer?
TIA