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• When bidirectional transmission is
running, machine status and infor-
mation can be viewed by opening
the printer driver screen.
To support bidirectional transmis-
sion, the following conditions are re-
quired:
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❖ When connecting with USB 2.0
• The port on the USB 2.0 inter-
face and the USB port on the
computer are connected using a
USB interface cable (Windows
98 SE/Me/2000/XP, Windows
Server 2003).
Note
❒ In Windows 98 SE/Me, [Enable
bi-directional support for this print-
er] must be selected in [Spool Set-
tings] on the [Details] tab in
RPCS™ printer driver.
❒ In Windows 2000/XP or Win-
dows Server 2003, [Enable bidi-
rectional support] must be
selected, and [Enable printer pool-
ing] must not be selected on the
[Ports] tab in RPCS™ printer
driver.
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❖❖
❖ When connecting with the network
• The machine must be set to bidi-
rectional transmission.
• SmartDeviceMonitor for Client
included on the CD-ROM must
be installed.
One of the following conditions
must also be satisfied as well as the
two requirements mentioned
above:
• The port for SmartDeviceMoni-
tor and TCP/IP must be used.
• The standard TCP/IP port is
used without changing the port
name (Windows 2000/XP, Win-
dows Server 2003).
• The IP address specified in the
Microsoft TCP/IP Print is used
(Windows NT 4.0).
• The IP address is included in
port name, if using IPP proto-
col.
Note
❒ In Windows 95/98/Me, [Enable
bi-directional support for this print-
er] must be selected in [Spool Set-
tings] on the [Details] tab in
RPCS™ printer driver.
❒ In Windows 2000/XP, Windows
Server 2003, or Windows NT
4.0, [Enable bidirectional support]
must be selected, and [Enable
printer pooling] must not be se-
lected on the [Ports] tab in
RPCS™ printer driver.
❖
❖❖
❖ When connecting with IEEE 1394
• The port on the optional IEEE
1394 interface board and the
IEEE 1394 port on the computer
are connected using an interface
cable (Windows Me/2000/XP,
Windows Server 2003).
Note
❒ [SCSI print (SBP-2)] must be set to
Active and [Bidirectional SCSI
print] must be set to ON in [IEEE
1394] on the [Interface Settings]
tab in the machine's System Set-
tings.
❒ In Windows Me, [Enable bi-direc-
tional support for this printer] must
be selected in [Spool Settings] on
the [Details] tab in RPCS™ print-
er driver.
❒ In Windows 2000/XP, Windows
Server 2003, [Enable bidirectional
support] must be selected, and
[Enable printer pooling] must not
be selected on the [Ports] tab in
RPCS™ printer driver.
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