NEC 870 User Guide - Page 80

Starting the Status Monitor

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Chapter 5: DOS Printing The amount of status information displayed and the features available from the DOS Status Monitor, depends on whether the printer is connected directly to your computer or through a printer sharing device: • Detailed information about print jobs will be provided as status information if the default printer is a SuperScript 870 connected directly to your computer. • If a SuperScript 870 printer is connected with a printer sharing device, the DOS Status Monitor can still provide some printer status information such as paper error and offline. • If a non-SuperScript 870 printer is connected, no status information is available. Starting the Status Monitor Installation of the DOS Status Monitor is described in the section called "Installing SuperScript 870 DOS software only" on page 72. To run the DOS Status Monitor if you installed the NEC SuperScript 870 software through DOS: 1. Go to you NEC DOS directory and type: cd \necdos and press e. 2. Then type: 870sm and press e. 80 To run the DOS Status Monitor if you installed the NEC SuperScript 870 software from Windows: 1. To load the DOS Status Monitor into memory, Type n870sm and press e. 2. To pop-up the DOS Status Monitor, press its hot-key combination. By default, the hot-key is b-a-S. If you need to change the hot-key because of a conflict with a DOS program, you can do so using the Printer Control Panel program as described in the section called "Change Status Monitor Settings". Note: Under some circumstances, the DOS Status Monitor may not be able to pop-up over a DOS program if the program is displaying a graphic screen. Auto Loading the DOS Status Monitor You might want to have the DOS Status Monitor load automatically when you start your computer. To do this you need to add this line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: C:\necdos\n870sm.exe (Substitute the directory location where you installed n870sm.exe if it is not \necdos.) You can add this line with a text editor like DOS Edit.

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Chapter 5: DOS Printing
The amount of status information displayed and
the features available from the DOS Status
Monitor, depends on whether the printer is
connected directly to your computer or through a
printer sharing device:
•
Detailed information about print jobs will be
provided as status information if the default
printer is a SuperScript 870 connected directly
to your computer.
•
If a SuperScript 870 printer is connected with a
printer sharing device, the DOS Status
Monitor can still provide some printer status
information such as
paper error
and
offline
.
•
If a non-SuperScript 870 printer is connected,
no status information is available.
Starting the Status Monitor
Installation of the DOS Status Monitor is
described in the section called “Installing
SuperScript 870 DOS software only” on page 72.
To run the DOS Status Monitor if you installed the
NEC SuperScript 870 software through DOS:
1.
Go to you NEC DOS directory and type:
cd \necdos
and press
e
.
2.
Then type:
870sm
and press
e
.
To run the DOS Status Monitor if you installed the
NEC SuperScript 870 software from Windows:
1.
To load the DOS Status Monitor into memory,
Type
n870sm
and press
e
.
2.
To pop-up the DOS Status Monitor, press its
hot-key combination. By default, the hot-key is
b
-
a
-S.
If you need to change the hot-key because of a
conflict with a DOS program, you can do so using
the Printer Control Panel program as described in
the section called “Change Status Monitor
Settings”.
Note:
Under some circumstances, the
DOS Status Monitor may not be able to
pop-up over a DOS program if the
program is displaying a graphic screen.
Auto Loading the DOS Status
Monitor
You might want to have the DOS Status Monitor
load automatically when you start your computer.
To do this you need to add this line to your
AUTOEXEC.BAT
file:
C:\necdos\n870sm.exe
(Substitute the directory location where you
installed
n870sm.exe
if it is not
\necdos
.) You
can add this line with a text editor like DOS Edit.