e-Forms Update by e-Mail

One of the most important benefits of electronic forms is the ability to update the form image without throwing away pre-printed forms, waiting for the paper form stock to be depleted or paying for new paper forms to be printed in economical quantities. Contact Electronic Forms Plus (toll free 1-888-227-3776) for more information and pricing.

In any case, the e-Forms chips can simply be reprogrammed and exchanged. Up to date instructions for installing new chips in the printers, please visit our web site at
http://www.efplus.com/mssinst.htm

For some printers (including the IBM NP12 and IP21, and the HP LJ 4, 5, 5Si, 4000, 4050, and 4100) e-forms can also be updated in place by copying an email attachment to the printer from the command prompt. Special instructions have been developed for the IBM IP21

Here are the instructions for performing that update once you have received the update email:

1. First, save the attachment to a floppy disk or to the Reports\eforms share on your server
    
2. Now, you can either manually copy this file at each workstation from the floppy or server directory to the local printer using the following command at the MSDOS prompt:

   COPY A:\file.ALL LPT1 /B

   or

   COPY \\servername\Reports\eforms\file.ALL LPT1 /B