Notes:
•
Scheduled Disk Wiping will not be displayed until after Manual mode has been selected and submitted.
•
If you do not wish to schedule disk wiping, you can skip steps 5 and 6.
6
Use the Time and Day(s) options to designate when disk wiping should occur, and then click
Add
. Repeat as
needed to schedule additional times for disk wiping. When finished, use the browser Back button to return to
the Disk Wiping setup screen.
Note:
Disk wiping can take from several minutes to more than an hour, during which time the printer will be
unavailable for other user tasks.
7
From the Disk Wiping settings screen, select one of the following for each method of disk wiping (Automatic,
Manual, and Scheduled):
•
Single Pass
— This lets you overwrite the printer hard disk in a single pass with a repeating bit pattern.
•
Multi-pass
—This lets you overwrite the printer hard disk with random bit patterns several times, followed
by a verification pass. A secure overwrite is compliant with the DoD 5220.22-M standard for securely erasing
data from a hard disk. Highly confidential information should be wiped using this method.
8
Click
Submit
.
Using the printer control panel
1
Turn the printer off.
2
Hold down
and
6
MNO
while turning the printer on. It takes approximately a minute to boot into the
Configuration menu.
Once the printer is fully powered up, the touch screen should display a list of functions, instead of standard home
screen icons such as Copy or Fax.
3
Release the buttons when the screen with the progress bar appears. The printer performs a power-on sequence,
and then the Configuration menu appears.
4
Touch
Wipe Disk
, and then touch one of the following:
•
Wipe disk (fast)
—This lets you overwrite the disk with all zeroes in a single pass.
•
Wipe disk (secure)
—This lets you overwrite the disk with random bit patterns several times, followed by a
verification pass. A secure overwrite is compliant with the DoD 5220.22-M standard for securely erasing data
from a hard disk. Highly confidential information should be wiped using this method.
5
Touch
Yes
to proceed with disk wiping. A status bar will indicate the progress of the disk wiping task.
Note:
Disk wiping can take from several minutes to more than an hour, during which the printer will be
unavailable for other user tasks.
6
Touch
Back
, and then
Exit Config Menu
.
The printer will power-on reset, and then return to normal operating mode.
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