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6 • Adding Postage/Connecting to
Data Center
Postage and Your Machine
Postage is stored internally in your meter. When you need to add more,
you simply establish communications between your meter and the Pit-
ney Bowes Data Center, and specify the amount of postage you wish to
download. The postage is electronically transferred to your meter from
your Pitney Bowes Postage By Phone
®
meter payment account.
You must establish a Pitney Bowes Postage By Phone
®
meter pay-
ment account and have funds available in it before you can down-
load the funds (for postage) to your meter. There are several ways
you can arrange to have funds put in your Postage By Phone
®
me-
ter payment account (send in a check, direct withdrawal, establish
credit, etc.). See the PitneyBowesContactList on page v to call for
further information.
Establishing Communications Between Your Machine
and the Pitney Bowes Data Center
You can establish communications between your meter and the
Pitney Bowes Data Center in three ways:
• Connect your machine to a LAN network that has Internet ac-
cess. This is known as "Constant Connection" (see page 6-5).
[DM125/DM225 models only]
• Install the PC Meter Connect
™
software on a Windows PC that has
Internet access and connect a USB cable between your meter and
the PC (see page 6-6, and also AppendixA-PCMeterConnect™).
• Connect the meter to an analog phone line if you do not have In-
ternet access via a LAN network or a PC (see page 6-7).
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NOTE: Postage refills, software upgrades and rates downloads
will typically be much faster using an Internet connection.
IMPORTANT:
For printing postage, the meter does not have to be connected to the
Pitney Bowes Data Center. However, we recommended you keep your
meter in a "ready-to-connect" state to the Pitney Bowes Data Center on
a permanent basis (using any one of the above connection methods).
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NOTE: Topic headings in this manual that refer to a PC Meter
Connect™ Enhanced feature will be listed in green text.