Making Option Settings For The Printer; Conditions For Bidirectional Communication; If Bidirectional Communication Is Disabled - Ricoh SP 5200S Operating Instructions Manual

1. Preparing the Machine

Making Option Settings for the Printer

When bidirectional communication works correctly, your computer obtains information about option,
paper size and paper feed direction settings from the machine automatically. Bidirectional
communication also allows you to monitor machine status.
When bidirectional communication is disabled, you have to set up option, paper size and paper feed
direction settings on your computer manually.

Conditions for Bidirectional Communication

To support bidirectional communication, the following conditions must be met:
When connected with the network
• The Standard TCP/IP port is used, or the TCP/IP protocol or the IPP protocol is used. (When
using the IPP protocol, the IPP port name must include the IP address.)
• [Enable bidirectional support] is selected, and [Enable printer pooling] is not selected on the
[Ports] tab with the printer driver.
When connected with USB
• The machine must be connected to the computer's USB port using the USB interface cable.
• The computer must support bidirectional communication.
• The PCL 6 and PostScript 3 printer driver support bidirectional communication and update the
machine status automatically.
• The PCL 5e printer driver supports bidirectional communication. You can update the machine status
manually.

If Bidirectional Communication Is Disabled

This section describes how to set up option, paper size and paper feed direction settings on your
computer manually.
• Manage Printers permission is required to change the printer properties. Log on as an
Administrators group member.
For the PCL 6 and PostScript 3 printer driver:
1. On the [Start] menu, click [Printers and Faxes].
• When using Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, click [Control Panel] on the
[Start] menu, and then click [Printer] in "Hardware and Sound".
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