I shall have to try embossing a long document using my BN. I have never done that. My embosser is an Index EverestD.
The VersaPoint embossers were a Telesensory embosser, so if I'm right, it's an old embosser. I would like to mention that the word build, such as Keysoft build 22, is spelled b u i l d, not b i l l e d. I'm using Keysoft build 19 and it works fine for me. Terri, Amateur Radio call sign, KF6CA. Army MARS call sign, AAT9PX California On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, James Aldrich wrote: 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 > > >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
