Xerox PE220 manual Configuring Printer Properties, Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners

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Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners

Your machine can be connected to a host computer via the parallel port or USB port. Since the MFP device contains more than one device (printer and scanner), it is necessary to organize proper access of “consumer” applications to these devices via the single I/O port.

The Xerox MFP driver package provides an appropriate port sharing mechanism that is used by the Xerox printer and scanner drivers. The drivers address their devices via so-called MFP ports. The current status of any MFP port can be viewed via the MFP Ports Configuration. The port sharing prevents you from accessing one functional block of the MFP device, while another block is in use.

When you install a new MFP printer onto your system, it is strongly recommended you do this with the assistance of an MFP Configurator. In this case you will be asked to choose I/O port for the new device. This choice will provide the most suitable configuration for MFP’s functionality. For MFP scanners I/O ports are being chosen by scanner drivers automatically, so proper settings are applied by default.

Configuring Printer Properties

You can change the various properties for your machine as a printer using the properties window provided by the Printers configuration.

1.Open the MFP Configurator.

2.If necessary, switch to Printers configuration.

3.Select your machine on the available printers list and click Properties.

4.The Printer Properties win- dow opens.

The following five tabs display at the top of the window:

•General: allows you to change the printer location and name. The name entered in this tab displays on the printer list in Printers configuration.

•Connection: allows you to view or select another port. If you change the printer port from USB to parallel or vice versa while in use, you must re- configure the printer port in this tab.

•Driver: allows you to view or select another printer driver. Click Options to set the default device options.

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