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Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners, Ports configuration, Refresh, Release port

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1 Switches to Ports configuration. 2 Shows all of the available ports. 3 Shows the port type, device connected to the port, and status. Refresh: Renews the available ports list. Release port: Releases the selected port. Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners Your machine may be connected to a host computer via a parallel port or USB port. Since the printer contains more than one device (printer and scanner), it is necessary to organize proper access of user-installed applications to these devices via the single I/O port. The Unified Linux Driver package provides an appropriate port sharing mechanism that is used by Dell printer and scanner drivers. The drivers talk to their devices via so-called machine ports. The current status of any machine port can be viewed via the Ports configuration. The port sharing prevents you from accessing one functional block of the machine device, while another block is in use. When you install a new machine device onto your system, it is strongly recommended you do this with the assistance of an Unified Driver 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 machine's functionality. For machine scanners, I/O ports are being chosen by scanner drivers automatically, so proper settings are applied by default.

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1
Switches to
Ports configuration
.
2
Shows all of the available ports.
3
Shows the port type, device connected to the port, and status.
Refresh:
Renews the available ports list.
Release port:
Releases the selected port.
Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners
Your machine may be connected to a host computer via a parallel port or USB port. Since the printer contains
more than one device (printer and scanner), it is necessary to organize proper access of user-installed
applications to these devices via the single I/O port.
The Unified Linux Driver package provides an appropriate port sharing mechanism that is used by Dell printer and
scanner drivers. The drivers talk to their devices via so-called machine ports. The current status of any machine
port can be viewed via the
Ports configuration
. The port sharing prevents you from accessing one functional
block of the machine device, while another block is in use.
When you install a new machine device onto your system, it is strongly recommended you do this with the
assistance of an Unified Driver 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 machine’s functionality. For machine scanners, I/O
ports are being chosen by scanner drivers automatically, so proper settings are applied by default.