Conditions for Bidirectional Communication

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

Make sure that [Enable bidirectional support] is selected on the [Ports] tab in the printer properties dialog box.

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

Operating system

Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and Windows Server 2003/2003 R2/2008

When connected via a network

The printer must be connected via standard TCP/IP port, and the default name has not been changed.

When connected via USB

The printer must be connected to the computer's USB port using the USB interface cable.

The PostScript 3 printer driver does not support bidirectional communications. You can update printer status manually.
The PCL printer drivers support bidirectional communications. You can update printer status manually.