Conditions for Bidirectional Communication

This section explains the requirements for bidirectional communication.

Bidirectional communication allows information about paper size and feed direction settings to be automatically sent to the printer. You can check printer status from your computer.

If you use the RPCS raster printer driver and bidirectional communication is enabled under Windows 2000/XP, the [Accessories] tab is unavailable.

To support bidirectional communication, the following conditions must be met:

If the machine and computer are connected directly to each other with a cable

Bidirectional communication is supported by Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows NT 4.0.
The printer must support bidirectional communication.

When connected with the network

The printer must support bidirectional communication.
SmartDeviceMonitor for Client included on the CD-ROM must be installed, and TCP/IP must be used.
Under Windows 2000, [Enable bidirectional support] must be selected, and [Enable printer pooling] must not be selected on the [Port] tab with the RPCS raster printer driver.
In addition to the above, one of the following conditions must also be met:
- The SmartDeviceMonitor for Client port and the TCP/IP protocol must be used.
- IPP port name must include the IP address when using the IPP protocol.