User guide

Unix - TCP/IP
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Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration
Telnet
Telnet can be used to monitor the status of the printers attached to the IOPRINT+ Print
Server.
Operation Establish a connection to the IOPRINT+ Print Server, by starting your Telnet program and
providing the IP Address of the IOPRINT+ Print Server. (No port number is required.)
It will respond with "Welcome to Print Server".
From the resulting prompt, 3 commands are possible:
• Help: Show brief help
• Monitor: show printer status
• Exit: leave telnet
Monitoring The "Monitor" command will show the status of the printer, on each port, as shown in the
following example.
The display is updated once per second.
(P1)STATE: Idle
TYPE: Parallel
PRINTER STATUS: Out Of Paper
(P2)STATE: Printing
TYPE: Parallel
PRINTER STATUS: On-Line
BYTES SERVICED: 75264
OCCUPIED BY: LPD
(SP)STATE: Idle
TYPE: Serial
PRINTER STATUS: Offline