Chapter 3. Managed Ipds Dialog Support; Enabling Mid Support; Considerations To Activate Mid Support - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

Chapter 3. Managed IPDS Dialog support

The Managed IPDS Dialog (MID) support enables additional sharing capabilities
for specific printers. Current sharing of a print device is based on the setting of an
inactivity timer. MID support overcomes these current limitations:
v Release for sharing requires physical intervention to disconnect the print device,
v Release of the print device is controlled by a specific time value. This causes the
With MID support, the printer can request that the PSF host release its control of
the print device (but not drop the TCP/IP connection), thus allowing the print
engine to print non-IPDS data streams when IPDS activity is minimal. MID
support also enables the sharing of the print mechanism with other non-IPDS data
streams.
This chapter includes the following sections:
v "Enabling MID support"
v "Considerations to activate MID support"

Enabling MID support

Set these parameters to enable MID support:
1. mid-support-enabled
2. mid-release-timer

Considerations to activate MID support

Consider these before you activate MID support for your print device:
and the PSF host must re-acquire the TCP/IP connection to process additional
print requests. When the original connection is released, all downloaded
resources are generally lost. Furthermore, there is a possibility that another host
might acquire the TCP/IP connection and prevent the current host from
processing additional print requests.
release of the printer even when there are no additional print requests pending.
a. Right-click the actual destination in the InfoPrint Manager GUI and click
Properties.
b. Click Tuning.
c. Enter Yes in the Enable MID Support field to activate MID. The default
value is No.
a. Right-click the actual destination in the InfoPrint Manager GUI and click
Properties.
b. Click Tuning.
c. Specify a numeric value for MID Release Timer from 1 to 9999. The default
value is 15.
Note: The value for the MID-release-timer must be less than the value for
the destination-release-timer-setting. The MID will never be enabled if the
destination-release-timer-setting value is less than the MID-release-timer
value.
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