CHAPTER 2: USING YOUR SCALE
USING THE SCALE
Sleep Mode
Postage Meter
Accounts
Notes:
1.Selecting account 0, cancels out of the current account and prevents mail processing until a valid account is entered.
2.If an arrow appears on the display, use the scroll keys to display accounts not on the screen.
The following assumes you or a Pitney Bowes engineer have completed the installation instructions included with your scale. If not, please do so now. Ensure that before you start using your scale, you check that the scale has been levelled correctly (see page 26).
Where possible, sort items of mail into batches of like categories, i.e. 1st Class or 2nd Class etc. This will minimise category changing.
Your scale should be turned ON and ready for use. The display will show 0g (provided the weighing platform is empty) and the Select Category prompt.
During operation, if the scale is at zero weight and not used for 3 minutes, it will enter Sleep Mode. During Sleep Mode the display is extinguished.
When a weight is placed on the platform or any key is pressed, the display will relight with all the previous selections showing.
If your scale is linked to a postage meter which has internal accounting, you must select a valid account before you start processing mail on the scale. This operation can be done from the scale keyboard. Dependant upon whether you have the Datalink option fitted to your postage meter, one of the following two methods will allow you to select the account. First, press the Account key…
If the display shows the list of accounts available down the left side of the screen, press the menu selection key alongside the account to select. or…
If the display prompts you to enter an account number, key in a valid account number and press the Enter key. The new account will be displayed.
The postage meter will set to the chosen account and you can now process mail as described in the following section. To change the account at any time, simply repeat the above sequence.
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