Using The Documatch With An Hp Jetdirect Print Server; Configuring The Documatch Printer; Testing The Link - Pitney Bowes DocuMatch Integrated Mail System Application Notes

Using the DocuMatch with an HP JetDirect Print Server

Configuring the
DocuMatch
Printer

Testing the Link

DocuMatch Integrated Mail System
TM
If you want to drive a first-generation, Canon Printer-based
DocuMatch system with a customer-supplied HP JetDirect
external print server, you must make the internal setting
change in the DocuMatch described in this note. This
change may also be required for other non-Pitney Bowes
print servers. This change has been tested with the
Hewlett Packard JetDirect EX Plus3, HP model J2593A,
and the EX Plus, model J2591.
1. Disconnect the DocuMatch from the print server.
2. At the DocuMatch control panel, press System
Options. This takes the DocuMatch offline.
3. Open the top cover, exposing the document printer,
and hold down the Menu key on the document
printer control panel for several seconds, until
"CONFIG MENU" is displayed.
4. Hit the same Menu key briefly 3 times, until "IEEE
1284 Mode" is displayed.
5. Hit the Select Down key until OFF displays.
6. Hit the Feeder Select key until a * displays.
7. Hit Menu several more times, until READY displays.
8. Turn the DocuMatch off, connect it to the print
server, and turn it back on.
These steps disable the DocuMatch's bidirectional com-
munications, which conflict with the JetDirect box because
it is expecting to be connected to an HP printer. This
change does not interfere with the functioning of the
DocuMatch in any way.
When the DocuMatch has warmed back up, you can test
the link between the print server and the DocuMatch by
pressing the test button on the print server. Two test pages
should print. The DocuMatch control panel will say Waiting
for Host after the second page has printed. Turn the
DocuMatch off and back on to clear this.
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