QMS 1725E, Reference

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Updating System
Software
6-65 Printer Options
Procedure—PC Users—Parallel and Serial
Use the following procedure to update the system software in flash
memory whether downloading through the parallel or serial port.
Decompressing the System Software
Before the printer system software can be downloaded, it must be
decompressed on your PC’s hard disk.
1 Create a new directory on your PC.
2 Change to this directory.
3 Insert the printer system software disk in your PC’s 3.5" disk
drive.
4 Type
x :pkunzip x :system
↵ where x is the name of the disk
drive in which you inserted the system software disk.
5 Follow the prompts.
They instruct you to insert the system software disks in the follow-
ing order:
a Last disk (system software disk 2)
b Disk 1 (system software disk 1)
c Disk 2 (system software disk 2)
6 Turn on the printer, wait for
IDLE
to appear in the message
window, and then print an advanced status page.
The advanced status page provides a record of all current config-
uration settings, so you can verify that they are the same after the
system software has been updated.
Downloading the System Software
—Parallel
1 Access the Administration/Miscellaneous/New Flash Image
menu.
2 Select Yes in the New Flash Image menu.