Enabling and Disabling Attachments
Do this task whenever you need to enable (functionally connect) or disable (disconnect) the printer from the controlling computer system channel. Note that enabling and disabling an attachment is not the same as physically attaching or detaching the attachment.
To accept commands and data from the system, a controlling computer system channel must be enabled, and the printer must be Ready.
You need to enable attachments whenever you do the following: v Switch power on to the system in duplex
v Switch power on to the system in dual simplex
v Switch power on to the system in simplex mode without using Auto Start v Whenever you need to enable a disabled attachment.
The enable/disable status of installed host attachments may be set differently between duplex and dual simplex modes and between Printer 1 and Printer 2 in dual simplex.
Remote Channel Enable/Disable
If your installation uses two System/370 Parallel Channels, a ªRemote Channel Enable/Disableº feature may be installed (contact your service representative if you are not sure). If the ªRemote Channel Enable/Disableº feature is installed, you must notify the remote operator whenever you require the Parallel channels to be enabled or disabled.
Note: Although there is nothing to prohibit the use of the Enable/Disable
Attachments procedure, you should not use it when the ªRemote Channel
Enable/Disableº feature is installed.
Local Channel Enable/Disable
| Note: Do not use this procedure if the ªRemote Channel Enable/Disableº feature |
| is installed. |
| The enable/disable status of host attachments cannot be changed for an individual |
| printer or for the complete |
| Ready state. |
You may make the printers Not Ready at either the printer Display Touch Screen | |
window or the stacker control panel. You must use that same panel or window to | |
make the printers Ready. | |
v In duplex mode, SELECT the Stop pushbutton on the Display Touch Screen | |
main window. | |
v In dual simplex mode, SELECT the Stop pushbutton on the Display Touch | |
Screen window for the target printer. | |
v In simplex mode, SELECT the Stop pushbutton on the Display Touch Screen | |
window for the printer. | |
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