Macintosh operating systems – HP 2420 User Manual
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The download process begins and the firmware is updated on the product. This can take about
five minutes. Let the process finish without further interaction with the product or the computer.
NOTE
The product automatically restarts the firmware to activate the update. At the end
of the update process, the READY message appears on the control panel.
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At the command prompt, type
bye to exit the FTP command.
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At the command prompt, type
exit to return to the Windows interface.
Macintosh operating systems
1
Take note of the TCP/IP address on the EIO-Jetdirect page. The EIO-Jetdirect page is the
second page of the configuration page printout. To print a configuration page, see
.
2
Open a Terminal window on your Macintosh. You can find the Terminal application on the
computer hard drive in the Applications/Utilities folder.
3
Type
FTP <TCP/IP printer ADDRESS> For example, if the TCP/IP address is 192.168.0.90,
type
FTP 192.168.0.90
4
Press
Enter
on the keyboard.
5
When prompted for a user name and password, press
Enter
.
6
Type
put <path>, where <path> is the location where the .RFU file was downloaded from the
Web, including the path. For example, type
put /username/desktop/2410fw.rfu and then
press
Enter
.
NOTE
If the file name or path includes a space, you must enclose the file name or path
in quotation marks. For example, type
put "/user name/desktop/2410FW.RFU".
To ensure that the entire path to the .RFU file is placed in the
put command, type put and
a space, and then drag and drop the .RFU file onto the terminal window. The complete
path to the file is automatically placed after the
put command .
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The download process begins and the firmware is updated. This can take about five minutes. Let
the process finish without further interaction with the product or the computer.
NOTE
The product automatically restarts the firmware to activate the update. At the end
of the update process, the READY message appears on the control panel.
Remote firmware update through a local Windows port
If the product is connected through a local port (parallel), then you can send the .RFU file directly to
the product by using a
COPY command from a command prompt or an MS-DOS window. At the
command prompt, perform the following steps for your operating system.
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