z
Refresh:
Renews the available ports list.
z
Release port:
Releases the selected port.
Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners
Your machine may be connected to a host computer via a parallel port or USB port. Since the
machine device contains more than one device (printer and scanner), it is necessary to organize
proper access of “consumer” applications to these devices via the single I/O port.
The Unified Linux Driver package provides an appropriate port sharing mechanism that is used
by Samsung printer and scanner drivers. The drivers talk to their devices via so-called machine
ports. The current status of any machine port can be viewed via the
Ports configuration
. The
port sharing prevents you from accessing one functional block of the machine device, while
another block is in use.
When you install a new machine device onto your system, it is strongly recommended you do
this with the assistance of an Unified Driver Configurator. In this case you will be asked to
choose I/O port for the new device. This choice will provide the most suitable configuration for
machine’s functionality. For machine scanners, I/O ports are being chosen by scanner drivers
automatically, so proper settings are applied by default.
1 Switches
to
Ports configuration
.
2 Shows all of the available ports.
3 Shows the port type, device connected to the port, and status
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