Specifications

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SV62667 Rev. A
6 • Adding Postage/Connecting to
Data Centre
Postage and Your Machine
Postage is stored internally in your meter. When you need to add more,
you simply establish communications between your meter and the Pit-
ney Bowes Data Centre, and specify the amount of postage you wish to
download. The postage is electronically transferred to your meter from
your Pitney Bowes Postage By Phone
®
meter payment account.
You must establish a Pitney Bowes Postage By Phone
®
meter pay-
ment account and have funds available in it before you can down-
load the funds (for postage) to your meter. There are several ways
you can arrange to have funds put in your Postage By Phone
®
me-
ter payment account (send in a check, direct withdrawal, establish
credit, etc.). See the Pitney Bowes Contact List on page v to call for
further information.
Establishing Communications Between Your Machine
and the Pitney Bowes Data Centre
You can establish communications between your mailing system and
the Pitney Bowes Data Centre in three ways:
• Connect your mailing system to a LAN network that has Internet
access. This is known as Constant Connection (see page 6-5).
• Install the PC Meter Connect
™
software on a Windows PC that has
Internet access and connect a USB cable between your machine and
the PC (see page 6-6, and also Appendix A - PC Meter Connect™).
• Connect the mailing system to an analog phone line (see page
6-7) if you do not have Internet access via a LAN network or a PC.
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NOTE: Postage refills, system upgrades and rates downloads
will typically be much faster using an Internet connection.
IMPORTANT:
For printing postage, the machine does not have to be connected to the
Pitney Bowes Data Centre. However, we recommended you keep your
machine in a ready-to-connect state to the Pitney Bowes Data Centre on
a permanent basis (using any one of the above connection methods).
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NOTE: Topic headings in this manual that refer to a PC Meter
Connect™ feature are listed in green text.