Conditions 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, 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 USB cable

Bidirectional communication is supported by Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, 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.