Rhonda, Kathy and list,
I'm facing this same situation only as it applies to embossing
documents. I may need to read that section.
I was editing a newsletter for embossing. While working on it last night,
the "freeze bug" decided to visit me. Perhaps it had to find a new place
since a number of you have run the patch. I was stuck in the page column
and line information and couldn't get out no matter what I tried to do. My
only option was to hit the reset button. Needless to say, I lost two hours
of work. Luckily, most of my efforts dealt with formatting. I would
really have been mad had I written the document from scratch. I recovered
much of my work last night and finished everything up tonight. I will
probably transfer the document over to my BN classic which has the parallel
port and I'll be able to emboss from there I hope! What a pain! I hope to
have the necessary interface by the time I do this newsletter again.
Keep us posted!
Jim Aldrich
At 05:40 PM 11/17/2005 , you wrote:
Kathy, first of all, in looking at the manual, it says that this
discussion is outside the scope of the user guide, for what that's
worth. USB is now the universal standard for connecting to
printers. Plug the USB printer into one of your BrailleNote BT USB host
ports, and select USB as your printer port.
Though the BrailleNote mPower no longer has a parallel port, it is
possible to use a printer or embosser that only has a parallel
connecter. Using an Inside Out Networks -- Edgeport/421 multi-interface
converter, you can print to a parallel printer or embosser by plugging in
the USB cable of the converter to the BN BT, and the parallel cable of the
printer into the converter hub.
This requires a special driver to work on the BN. No software is required
to be downloaded for this. There is more information on this in section
6.8.6. Good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: kathy davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:05:35 -0700
Subject: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
Hi, List and Humanware staff,
What printers have you mPower users used successfully with your
mPower? If they were not a USB printer, have you had success with the USB
to parallel converter cables?
I will need such a cable to use with my Epson printer, and
wondered if they're workable.
I could connect the mPower to the Canon printer my husband uses,
via the USB port, but unfortunately it was not supported by the mPower
even in the standard setting, hence the need to try my Epson. We have a
third printer but it's also a Canon.
Thanks for your help.
Kathy (still enjoying using my mPower)
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