Monitoring and Configuring the Printer

Using SmartDeviceMonitor for Client

SmartDeviceMonitor for Client is an application that has functions such as the peer-to-peer printing machine monitoring. We recommend you install this application on the client computer. SmartDeviceMonitor for Client is required if you need to print over a network in a Windows 98/Me environment.

zOperating System: Windows 98/Me Protocol Stack

TCP/IP protocol supplied with Windows 98/Me NetBEUI protocol supplied with Windows 98/Me

zOperating System: Windows 2000 Protocol Stack

TCP/IP protocol supplied with Windows 2000 NetBEUI protocol supplied with Windows 2000 IPX/SPX transport protocol supplied with Windows 2000

zOperating System: Windows Server 2003 Protocol Stack

TCP/IP protocol supplied with Windows Server 2003

IPX/SPX transport protocol supplied with Windows Server 2003

zOperating System: Windows XP Protocol Stack

TCP/IP protocol supplied with Windows XP

IPX/SPX transport protocol supplied with Windows XP

zOperating System: Windows NT 4.0 Protocol Stack

TCP/IP protocol supplied with Windows NT 4.0

NetBEUI protocol supplied with Windows NT 4.0

IPX/SPX transport protocol supplied with Windows NT 4.0

What can you do with it?

Using SmartDeviceMonitor for Client, you can do the following:

zPeer-to-peer printing

zSend print jobs directly to the network printer without going through a print server.

zPrint using a substitute printer if there are too many jobs waiting on the specified printer, or if an error disables printing (Recovery Printing).

zAllocate multiple print jobs to multiple printers (Parallel Printing).

zPreregister groups of printers specified for Recovery Printing or Parallel Printing.

zReceive error message notification if an error occurs in the machine while it is printing or sending a job.

zMonitoring function

zCheck the printer status such as the remaining amount of paper while printing.

zSimultaneously monitor multiple printers in use.

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