Pitney Bowes DM400C Postal Equipment User Manual


 
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Appendix B • Glossary
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Account—set up when using the Accounting option. An account
can be an organization, person, department, etc. to which postage is
charged. The machine stores the total postage used and the num ber
of mail piec es pro cessed for each account. The total number of
accounts available on your machine depends on the option purchased.
Advertisement, Envelope—An advertising message that appears
next to the machine's meter stamp. You can choose from an ar ray of
stan dard and custom ads.
Analog Line–a "standard" phone line supplied by the phone
company. You use an analog phone line when you connect to the
Pitney Bowes Data Center using your machine's modem phone jack.
Analog phone lines are usually Fax lines, residential phone lines, and
lines used by modems or credit card readers. Compare to Digital Line.
Constant Connection–a feature that allows you to connect your
machine to a LAN network having Internet access so your meter can
communicate to the Pitney Bowes Data Center.
Default—A value or setting the machine au to mat i cal ly uses unless
you change it. As delivered, your machine has fac to ry-set defaults or
“normal” settings. You may change these if you wish.
Digital Line–a type of line used on digital phone systems (so called
PBX systems). Many PBX manufacturers have designed phone
systems that deliver much more current to the phone than does a
"standard" analog phone line supplied by the phone company. As a
result, if you connect your machine's modem phone jack to a PBX
digital line, thinking that it’s an analog line, you could damage your
modem with too much current and not even know it.
Home Screen—The machine display that shows your cur rent
selections. It indicates that you're ready to print post age.
Inspection (Postal)—The USPS
®
requires a postal inspection
of your machine every 120 days to ensure accurate postal funds
ac count ing. This postal inspection requirement can be automatically
met by merely connecting your machine to the Pitney Bowes Data
Center for any reason (e.g., to check your Postage By Phone
®
account, add postage to your meter, etc.).
IntelliLink
®
—A Pitney Bowes technology that allows you to
download machine features, and postal rate and sys tem soft ware
updates via a digital link to the Pitney Bowes Data Center.
LAN (Local Area Network)—a network installed in a company that
allows computers and printers to communicate with each other, and
to the Internet (if configured).