Gutted a Printer and found a nice LCD, some pin info inside.

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So I had an old printer and I gutted it out before throwing it. I found an LCD and motors that I kept and forgot about for 7 years now. Well I wanted to use this LCD instead of spending $17 dollar on 1 from ebay and wait about a month to get it. I searched a string of text written behind LCD in bold, and found a russian forum with a picture of the same LCD and its datasheet info. I would like to know if this is similar to the one thats popular with arduino.

LCD- VHX1623-1 LCD

An screenshot is attached of that russian post, with pin info of LCD.

Facing front, the pins are 14 to 1 starting from left to right.

1-VSS (is that VCC?)
7 to 8 is I guess the inputs for numbers or something, its similar to an 8 digit LED
4-rs for reset I guess
5-r/w - is that rewrite? is that any use in an arduino?

Found no datasheet online, but found a russian store selling the exact LCD had 5v written under description for input voltage.

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That looks like the pinout for a garden variety LCD that should work with the LiquidCrystal library.

Vss -- GND
Vdd -- +5v
Vee -- commonly called the 'contrast' voltage
rs -- register select
r/w -- read/write (typically connected to GND)
e -- enable
db0 - db3 -- not used with 4-bit interface
db4 - db7 -- data

Don

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I found a datasheet by searching for "DV-16252S1FBLY/R pdf".

It's too large to attach (1801 KB) so get it here: --> http://pribor-systems.ru/fromoremax/PDF/LD/DV-16252S1FBLY-R22.pdf

EDIT: And from the datasheet I see that although the pinout is indeed quite standard there are some differences in its character ROM. It will work the same for the standard ASCII characters but the extended characters, those above 0x7F, include Cyrillic characters rather than the Japanese characters present in most displays.

Don