HP 2410 manual Windows 98 or Windows Me, Lpt1

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Windows 98 or Windows Me

1From a command prompt or in an MS-DOS window, type:

Mode lpt1:,,p

NOTE If the product is attached to a parallel port other than LPT1, then substitute the correct LPT port number in the mode command.

2Press Enter on the keyboard. The response you receive should be similar to these examples:

>LPT1 Not Rerouted

>Resident portion of MODE loaded

>Infinite retry on parallel printer time-out

3At a command prompt, type copy /b <FILENAME> <PORTNAME>, where <FILENAME> is the

name of the .RFU file (including the path) and <PORTNAME> is the name of the appropriate product port (such as LPT1). For example, type C:\>copy /b c:\2410fw.rfu lpt1

NOTE If the file name or path includes a space, you must enclose the file name or path in quotation marks. For example, type C:\>copy /b "c:\My Documents\2410fw.rfu"

lpt1

4Press Enter on the keyboard. The messages that are described in Printer messages during the firmware update appear on the control panel.

NOTE The product automatically restarts the firmware to activate the update. At the end of the update process, the READY message appears on the control panel.

5Print a configuration page and verify that the firmware revision number matches the revision of the current update.

6Type exit at the command prompt to close the command window.

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