Jim
Good luck with your cable hassles.
About the freeze of the mPower within a document. I didn't realize the
patch is supposed to fix that. I better look into getting that
installed I guess.
Please let us know if that problem goes away.
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
Hi again Jean,
I just ran the upgrade patch. That process went fine and I'll see
whether that freeze within a document has stopped. One shouldn't need
to exit from a document unless the battery is low and one needs to
plug it in immediately. Had to get a 512 meg SD card. I believe it
was $29.99 at Best Buys. Smaller cards cost more, go figure!
I have a Belcan USB to parallel cable, no software required. The
M-power doesn't recognize the cable, keep getting the card not
recognized messsage. The only thing I can do is unplug the cable and
do a reset if I wish to do anything with my M-power. Meanwhile, I'll
need to use my older BN to emboss a braille document till I solve this
problem of the USB port not working with my embosser. I plugged
everything in first, then turned on the BN and the card not recognized
message shows up whether the cable is plugged into anything or not!
That is the latest thus far.
Jim Aldrich
At 10:14 AM 11/18/2005 , you wrote:
Hi Jim
Well, then the idea of calling it a save option, S-cord, is totally
misleading. Yes, you can change file types, etc., but if you just
press enter to accept the current status, I still don't understand why
it isn't a true save. Yes, I now exit the application as a periodic
save, but that seems a bit counter productive to me.
Jean
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Aldrich"
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
Hi Jean,
The best way to save your work is to simply exit your document
especially if you are using a given file for your own information and
work. You would use the Spacebar with S if you wish to save your
work as another file type or you would export your document to
another file type. Quite often I'll save a Microsoft Word file to a
text document by using the S with spacebar. I then will translate
that document into a braille file which I'll emboss. When using the
S chord, one can save the original and work with the new document
which comes in handy. I'm trying to emphasize that you don't use the
S with spacebar to save a document unless you wish to save it as
another document type. Or, you can go to the file manager to export
the document to another file type. There's more than one way to do
the same thing.
I have a computer person coming by today with any number of things,
one of which will be an SD card and the other hopefully a USB to
parallel converter cable. We'll see what happens. I'll report back
to the list.
Do take care!
Jim Aldrich
At 07:56 AM 11/18/2005 , you wrote:
So, Jim. Sorry you lost your work with the freeze. I can relate as
that just happened to me.
No one from HumanWare or on the list attempted to answer my question
on that subject, though. Although I had been saving my work often
with the S-cord command, I lost everything when I had to use the
simple reset button to get out of the frozen state. The only save
that was recognized was the much earlier point where I had exited
the KeyWord application with E-cord. So, why bother with periodic
S-cord saves if they don't really save the work in the event of a
system lock-up?
Jean
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Aldrich"
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To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
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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