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Chapter
Starting with Intermec Shell
A few seconds after you have switched on the power to the printer and the initialization is completed, the countdown menu of the Intermec Shell program will be displayed:
ENTER=SHELL
5 sec. v.8.1
Now you have 5 seconds to enter Intermec Shell by pressing <Enter>.
The lower line tells you how much time you have left. Should the time run out before you have taken any action, the last selected application in Intermec Shell will be opened. If you use the same application all the time, you will only need to switch on the power, once the application has been selected.
If no other application has yet been selected, the current version of Intermec Fingerprint will be opened with "auto" selected as std I/O channel (see Intermec Fingerprint manuals). When the countdown is completed, you will see these lines in the display:
Fingerprint 8.20
If you want to select another application, just cycle the power and enter Intermec Shell before the countdown is completed.
When you enter the Intermec Shell from the countdown menus, the Select Application menu will be displayed:
SHELL
SEL. APPLICATION
In this menu, you can choose between two options:
•Press <Enter> to go to menus where you can select an application program.
•Press <`> to go to the Facilities part of Intermec Shell.
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