Section 4
Using the TROY Printer Utility
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Managing
System
Security
Setting the
Administrator
Password
Your TROY Security Printing Solution provides many convenient features for managing MICR printer security
in a single or multi-user environment. The TROY MICR Secure printer, MICR / IRD Secure
EX
printer, and
MICR Secure Memory Card Kit offer additional software and hardware-based security features designed to
safeguard your proprietary printer resources (digital images of signatures, logos, macros, MICR fonts, etc.),
restrict access to check stock stored inside the printer paper trays, and restrict access to the MICR features and
settings available from the printer control panel. Refer to Section 1 –
Features Overview
for a list of features
applicable to your TROY Security Printing Solution.
The strength and effectiveness of your MICR printing system security will depend largely on the TROY security
features you choose to implement. For users of the TROY MICR Secure printer, MICR / IRD Secure
EX
printer,
and MICR Secure Memory Card Kit, TROY highly recommends that administrators implement the use of
individual user names and passwords, data encryption, PINs (Personal Identification Numbers), paper tray locks,
and TROYmark
™
(Secure
EX
series printers only) to maximize the security of their MICR printing environment.
Although the use of an administrator password is not required to operate your TROY Security Printing Solution,
TROY highly recommends setting an administrator password to restrict access to the printer settings from either
the TROY Printer Utility or the printer control panel. The administrator (
ADMIN
) default password is blank (no
password).
Although the administrator password can be set via the printer control panel, TROY strongly recommends using
the TROY Printer Utility to set or modify the password. After the password is selected, the TROY Printer Utility
will automatically update the password file in the printer’s flash-file system.
