6 • adding postage/connecting to data center, Postage and your machine – Pitney Bowes DM125 User Manual

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6 • Adding Postage/Connecting to

Data Center

Postage and Your Machine

Postage is stored internally in your meter. When you need to add more,

you simply establish communications between your meter and the Pit-

ney Bowes Data Center, and specify the amount of postage you wish to

download. The postage is electronically transferred to your meter from

your Pitney Bowes Postage By Phone

meter payment account.

You must establish a Pitney Bowes Postage By Phone

meter pay-

ment account and have funds available in it before you can down-

load the funds (for postage) to your meter. There are several ways

you can arrange to have funds put in your Postage By Phone

me-

ter payment account (send in a check, direct withdrawal, establish

credit, etc.). See the Pitney Bowes Contact List on page v to call for

further information.

Establishing Communications Between Your Machine

and the Pitney Bowes Data Center

You can establish communications between your meter and the

Pitney Bowes Data Center in three ways:
• Connect your machine to a LAN network that has Internet ac-

cess. This is known as "Constant Connection" (see page 6-5).

[DM125/DM225 models only]

• Install the PC Meter Connect

™

software on a Windows PC that has

Internet access and connect a USB cable between your meter and

the PC (see page 6-6, and also Appendix A - PC Meter Connect™).

• Connect the meter to an analog phone line if you do not have In-

ternet access via a LAN network or a PC (see page 6-7).

NOTE:

Postage refills, software upgrades and rates downloads

will typically be much faster using an Internet connection.

IMPORTANT:

For printing postage, the meter does not have to be connected to the

Pitney Bowes Data Center. However, we recommended you keep your

meter in a "ready-to-connect" state to the Pitney Bowes Data Center on

a permanent basis (using any one of the above connection methods).

NOTE:

Topic headings in this manual that refer to a PC Meter

Connect™ Enhanced feature will be listed in

green text.