ZyXEL Communications NPS-520 User Manual

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Chapter 2 ZyXEL Utility

NPS-520 User’s Guide

Auto Release

This allows you to configure whether your computer will be disconnected from

the printer when there is no request sent to the printer.

Note: The Auto Release and Auto Connect features are not

configurable if your computer operating system version is
older then Windows 2000 SP4.

Select Disable to have your computer always connect to the printer even when

there is no traffic between the computer and the printer.

Note: If you disable Auto Release, only your computer can use

the printer. Click Disconnect to manually drop the
connection between your computer and the printer.

Select When idle time and select a period of idle time (in minutes) that elapses

before the NPS-520 drop the connection between the computer and the printer.

Note: It’s strongly recommended that you enable Auto Release

and/or Auto Connect on all Windows computers. This
allows computers in the network take turns to use the
printer.

Device Information

Click an entry in the Print Server List table to display the information of the

selected print server.

MAC Address

This is the MAC address of the print server.

FW Version

This is the version of the current firmware on the print server.

Status

This shows whether your computer is associated with the printer (that is

connected to the selected print server) (Connected) or not (Disconnected).

Computer Name

This is your computer’s “Computer Name”.

User’s Contact

This is your computer’s contact information that you configured in the General

Setting screen.

Description

This is the NPS-520’s descriptions that you can configure during installing the

utility or in the System Setting screen.

Auto Connect

This shows whether the Auto Connect feature is active (Enable) or not

(Disable).

Connect

Select an entry in the Print Server List table and use this button to associate

your computer with the printer which is connected to the print server. If a

computer is connected to the printer already, this button is not applicable.

Disconnect

Select an entry in the Print Server List table and use this button to drop the

connection between your computer and the printer which is connected to the

print server.
If another computer in your network is connected to the printer, this button is

not applicable. Use the Force Release button in the System Setting screen to

disconnect the connection between the printer and another computer.

Table 4 ZyXEL Utility: Status (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION