Bob,
Are you using Keysoft 5.1? If so, you should be able to emboss more than
thirty pages at a time. If not, I'd recommend uptgrading to 5.1 billed
22. I say billed 22 since that is the latest one out there. I'm still
using billed 19. I wouldn't recommend embossing more than one copy at a
time.
I have a Juliet classic which works similar I think to your Versapoint
2. They are both manufactured by the same company. The problem is more
with the embosser than with the BN believe it or not. Both our embossers
have a thirty page buffer. they cannot emboss fast enough for the BN to
feed them information. The BN goes into "sleep mode" before the first
thirty pages can be embossed. Needless to say, The embossing stops after
page thirty. You need to begin the process over again at page thirty-one
etc. The BN works fine with our embossers except for this problem. The
newer upgrades don't go into "sleep mode" as soon as earlier upgrades so
the embossing should go longer till the end of the document is
reached. The older Keysoft builds really had this problem. Hopefully,
this is being addressed more in 6.1 coming up. You might also try a single
sided embosser! I'll bet you won't have this problem as bad as with our
interpoint embossers. I can tell you stories about my Juliet with various
notetakers and I can tell you the Juliet is more the problem than was the
notetaker but the BN works best with the Juliet compared to other
notetakers. I also find it takes two tries before my Juliet will emboss a
document. The first try rarely if ever begins the embossing process. I
clear the buffer in the Juliet and try again and the embossing
begins. When I emboss a document on one of my single sided embossers, I
don't have this problem. I embossed a 32 page document yesterday with no
difficulty! The last Five lines of the document appeared on page 32. This
was on wide paper. When the embossing begins, watch your braille
display! My BN showed the name of the document or embossing complete early
on after the embossing began! Watch your display on your BN and you will
know the story on how the embossing is progressing!
HTH
Jim Aldrich
At 03:06 PM 12/04/2004 , you wrote:
Hi, folks: Yeah, it's embossing again, and I'm really ticked off! I just
got through embossing two documents, each approximately 65 Braille
pages. To get this done I had to break each document up into three
sections. Yeah, I know how to fix the numbers, so that it finishes on 30
pp., starts on 31, finishes on 60, starts on 61 and finishes on 65. (If
that was tedious to read, it was just as tedious to make the appropriate
adjustments!)
Now, I may be a silly goose, but I really beliaeve that I should be able
to emboss more than 30 pages at a time, without risking things getting
completely screwed up, when the embossing stops in the middle of the job!
Like I say, I know the work-arounds, and I know the story, that for some
reason, the BN and some embossers don't communicate very well. But, you
know what? It doesn't wash. Everyone who's done embossing with this
product has had similar trouble. This is really a "known issue", and,
frankly, is, in my mind more important than media players, or some of the
other things, which have been, or will be up-coing.
I love my BN. It's my primary computer. I think it's the best machine on
the market, bar none. But, a bug is a bug is a bug!! If it's known that
there are some embossers, with which the BN really doesn't work, let us
know which ones they are! For my part, I'm using the versapoint duo. I
tell you that I can't emboss any more than 30 pages with the bn. PDI,
this is something you guys really need to deal with. I thank you for your
time. God bless. Bob and Maxy-wax
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