Auditing accounts – Sharp AR-287 User Manual

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CHAPTER

AUDITING ACCOUNTS

If this copier has been programmed in the auditing mode, it will not
function until an assigned 5-digit account number has been entered.

★ KEY OPERATOR

See page 9 of the KEY OPERATOR’S GUIDE

for setting the auditing mode.

MAKING COPIES

Auditing accounts

The initial status of the message display will be:

ENTER YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER. -----

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Enter your account number using the 10-key pad.

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As each digit is entered, the dashes in the display will change to
asterisks.

The following message will appear after the number is entered.

ACCOUNT STATUS: COPIES MADE 000,000

COPIES REMAINING 000,000

“COPIES REMAINING” will appear only if account limit has been
set using a key operator program.

★

★ KEY OPERATOR

See page 12 of the KEY OPERATOR’S

GUIDE for account limit settings.

The message, however, will not be displayed when the printer
auditing mode is enabled by the key operator program with the
optional printer expansion kit installed. Then the account limit
setting will be canceled.

★

★ KEY OPERATOR

See page 46 of the AR-PB2A operation

manual for the printer auditing mode setting.

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The message will be displayed for several seconds, then change
to the following message.

READY TO COPY.

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When a copy run is performed, the following message will
appear.

READY TO COPY.

PRESS [AUDIT CLEAR] WHEN FINISHED.

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In the interrupt copy mode (see page 2-20), the following
message will appear instead of the message above.

READY TO COPY. WHEN COPYING IS

FINISHED, PRESS [INTERRUPT].

NOTE:
If an unassigned number is entered, the message display will show
“

ENTER YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER.-----

”, indicating that the

number was not accepted.

When the key operator program of account number security has
been set:
If an unassigned number is entered three successive times, the
copier will not accept another number for one minute, and the
following message will appear.

PLEASE SEE YOUR KEY OPERATOR FOR

ASSISTANCE.

★

★ KEY OPERATOR

See page 13 of the KEY OPERATOR’S

GUIDE for account number security.

CLEAR

PROGRAM

AUDIT CLEAR

INTERRUPT