Setting Timeouts - Pitney Bowes DocuMatch Integrated Mail System Application Notes

DocuMatch Application Notes
Print Manager and Timeouts for Windows 3.1 Users, continued

Setting Timeouts

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You may want to extend printer timeouts to avoid spurious
"busy" and "off-line" messages from the DocuMatch
system. The Windows Control Panel settings affect
timeouts only when Print Manager is running. If Print
Manager is off, follow this procedure to extend timeouts:
1. The driver installation process normally sets the default
timeout to 300 seconds. To adjust the timeout, use a
text editor or SYSEDIT to modify the WIN.INI file. This
is normally in the WINDOWS directory. Make a backup
copy of WIN.INI before making changes.
2. Open WIN.INI and find the
"DeviceNotSelectedTimeout=" line. This tells Windows
how many seconds to wait before it shows an error
message if the system is off-line. (The timeout is
usually caused by pausing, Verify Setup, a jam or
supply-out condition).
A good setting is about 300. (The default is 15, but
driver installation automatically extends it to 300.)
3. Find the "TransmissionRetryTimeout=" line. This tells
Windows how many seconds to wait if the system is
not accepting data because it is busy.
Because of the complexity of the DocuMatch system,
also set this value to about 300. (The default is 45 but
driver installation automatically extends it to 300.)
4. Restart Windows to make these changes to take effect.
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