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Enabling and disabling front panel menus
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System administrators may choose to limit user access to front panel menus by downloading a utility file to the printer. The "lock" utility file prevents most menu items from being displayed on the front panel. The capability of limiting menu access is often useful when a system administrator needs to retain control of the printer's settings. For example, selections made on the printer's front panel can affect the prints of all users sharing the printer on a network. A system administrator may want to disable the menus so users can only select printing features, such as color corrections, through their applications on an individual basis. In the protected mode, users still have access to print the Test Print, Configuration, and Startup pages, as well as printer information.
Note: If you have used the Menu Short (MENUSHRT.PS) file to disable the front panel
menus, you can temporarily re-enable the menus by holding down the printer's front
panel Menu button while pressing the  button. You can scroll through the menus
as usual, however, when you press the  button again the front panel returns to the
shortened form.
To enable or disable the front panel menus, use one of these methods:
Macintosh utility file: Menu Short /Menu Long
- Install the utility files from the Phaser 600 printer's CD-ROM; see Macintosh software for instructions.
- Select the appropriate printer in the Chooser.
- Locate the LaserWriter Utility in the PhaserTools folder on your hard disk, and double-click its icon to start the application.
- Choose Download PostScript File from the Utilities menu.
- Select one of the following files from the list, then click Open. (These files were installed in the Printer Utilities folder, inside the PhaserTools folder.)
- Use the Menu Short file to disable the printing features menus on the printer's front panel.
- Use the Menu Long file to expand the printer's front panel to show all menus.
- At the prompt Save PostScript output as: you are asked for a file name for saving printer output. Use either the default name given in the edit box or type a new name.
- Click Save to send the file to the printer.
- If no output is returned by the printer, the LaserWriter Utility displays a dialog box; click OK to continue.
PC utility file: MENUSHRT.PS/MENULONG.PS
- Follow the instructions in PC/Windows software to install the printer's software. Select Easy Install to automatically install the software, or select the Printer Utilities item in the Custom Install: Utilities window.
- Locate the files in the PHSR600 subdirectory, inside the PHSRTOOL directory created on your hard disk by the installer application.
- Select one of the following files:
- Use the MENUSHRT.PS file to disable the printing features menus on the printer's front panel.
- Use the MENULONG.PS file to expand the printer's front panel to show all menus.
- Use one of the following methods to send the desired file to the printer:
- PC users: Use the DOS COPY command to send the file to the printer. (Windows 3.1 users can also use the Copy command in the File Manager.)
- Workstation users: Send the file to the printer as you would any PostScript file.
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