Brother HL-5340D series

2011-12-28 Thread Stuart Breden
Here is one to rack your brains in the silly season. I have a networked printer problem. I have a small Apple network using the latest version of Snow Leopard. I have a Brother HL-5340D series in my office. This has duplex printing options. REcently this duplex printing option is not

Re: Brother HL-5340D series

2011-12-28 Thread Curtis Peter
Hi One thing to check is that the printer preferences is selected as A4 and not something else like US letter, if these selections are other than A4 the printer does as you say, prints one page then stops! Regards Peter On 28/12/2011, at 8:33 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: Here is one to rack your

Re: Brother HL-5340D series

2011-12-28 Thread Stuart Breden
Agree Peter. I checked that. Thanks. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the environment before printing this email On 28/12/2011, at 9:01 PM, Curtis Peter wrote: Hi One thing to check is that the printer preferences is

Re: Brother HL-5340D series

2011-12-28 Thread RJDarts
Evening, I assume Snow Leopard server, if so… Install printer through system preferences, then enter server admin and initialise printer. Once this has been done enter IP address of server with :631 This should open the Cups server page for your server go into admin using whatever passwords

Epson stylus 3880 flashing general error

2011-12-28 Thread William Crabb
Hello, Does anyone have any ideas to get rid of this message.quite new machine, no problems till now.Think it will be ok if I can get rid of message, Cheers, Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Re: Weatherzone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks for this one. I see the weather widget in Dashboard, but how do I keep it permanently on the MBP desktop or do I have to continuously go looking for Dashboard to see the weather widget? Regards Pete On 10/12/2011, at 6:15 PM, David Wood macwo...@mac.com wrote: Hey all, This is

Re: Weatherzone

2011-12-28 Thread Eugene
here are a couple of work arounds. http://mac.elated.com/2008/07/27/how-to-get-dashboard-widgets-on-your-desktop/ Regards, Eugene On 29/12/2011, at 7:57 AM, Peter Crisp wrote: Thanks for this one. I see the weather widget in

Re: Brother HL-5340D series

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Stuart, You have set the Printer default to double-sided print (Duplex)? Cheers, Ronni On 28/12/2011, at 9:50 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: Agree Peter. I checked that. Thanks. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 Please consider the

Re: Brother HL-5340D series

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi again Stuart, If you are using the CUPS Printer Driver, check you have the latest CUPS Printer Driver. http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/BSC/public/as/au/en/faq/faq/00/002900/09/faq002909_000.html?reg=asc=aulang=enprod=hl5370dw_eu_asCat=112 I cannot 2-sided (duplex) print from

Re: Epson stylus 3880 flashing general error

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 28/12/2011, at 11:48 PM, William Crabb wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any ideas to get rid of this message.quite new machine, no problems till now.Think it will be ok if I can get rid of message, Cheers, Bill Hi Bill, The control panel includes various lights and an LCD panel to

Graphics program

2011-12-28 Thread Gerald Lloyd
Hi all I have recently had to restart my computer and some of my backup was stuffed My Adobe CS5 suite was corrupted and I do not have the original disks and the serial number I have does not work HOWEVER I did not use it much so I am looking for a graphics program which is cheap and easy

Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Hi, I've got a few issues with this app. Myself and wife both have iPhones and each of 3 kids have have 8GB iPods all with the app installed and all with latest 5.0.1 iOS. Find my iPhone works well with the iPhones 100% reliably. Trying to locate the iPods is about 5% reliable. Generally I get

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Eugene
Pete, The iPhone has a built in GPS. It is accurate within a few meters. It also use assisted GPS meaning a combination of cell towers and triangulation to quickly assist in finding an approximate location. Thirdly it can use the WiFi/internet to find an approximate based around the IP

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Eugene, yes I'm aware of the 3G versus WiFi methods of location determination but the problem with the iPods is the complete lack of ANY location determination. They just don't reach a state of connection. The red dot indicates can't find despite them being connected to the WiFi network.

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, I was typing my reply when Eugene’s response came in, so I’ll just send this ;-) Find My iPhone uses a mix of GPS, Wi-Fi data, and cell tower data to locate the phone. The use of all of these services is helpful when you need to locate a missing phone and a GPS signal can't be

Re: Graphics program

2011-12-28 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Hi Gerald, Keynote, part of the iWork bundle, is a pretty good option if you want a step up from MacDraw. For a more powerful graphics program, you could look at Pixelmator from the App Store. Glenn Nicholas OM4 :: Business Websites on WordPress OM4: http://om4.com.au OM4Tourism:

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Peter Crisp
Thanks Ronni, you noted iOS 4.2 is required. Did you mean iOS 4.2 or later? Pete On 29/12/2011, at 10:18 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Hi Peter, I was typing my reply when Eugene’s response came in, so I’ll just send this ;-) Find My iPhone uses a mix of GPS, Wi-Fi data, and

Re: Graphics program

2011-12-28 Thread Gerald Lloyd
Hi Glen Thanks Never thought of Keynote as a graphics program! - many thanks will look at both Gerald and Valerie Lloyd lloy...@iinet.net.au On 29/12/2011, at 10:32 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: Hi Gerald, Keynote, part of the iWork bundle, is a pretty good option if you want a step up

Re: Find my iPhone

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
Sorry Peter, I‘m just responding a little bit, I’m still ’supposed’ to be on a break ;-( Minimum required is iOS 4.2. On the iPods You need to have wireless enabled.. do not have to connect to a wireless network, just have to have the Wireless turned on. Make sure location services are on,

Re: Graphics program

2011-12-28 Thread Ken G. Brown
You might want to have a look at GIMP http://www.gimp.org/ Or Google Sketchup http://sketchup.google.com/ depending what you want to do. Ken, from my iPhone On 2011-12-28, at 18:32, Glenn Nicholas gl...@om4.com.au wrote: Hi Gerald, Keynote, part of the iWork bundle, is a pretty good

MacBook Pro water damage!!!

2011-12-28 Thread Laura Webb
Good morning all My son has a 17 MacBook Pro, purchased from Daniel in November last year. MBPro 17 2.53GHzi5/4GB/500GB/SD Upgraded to 500GB 7200rpm Drive. Upgraded to 8GB RAM Yesterday at start up there was no screen. Peter phoned Apple (he has Applecare) and they arranged for an appointment

Re: MacBook Pro water damage!!!

2011-12-28 Thread Ken G. Brown
As a last resort try burying it in dry rice for few a few days to absorb moisture if it is still wet. I've read that sometimes works for other electronics. If too much damage is done tho it won't help. Ken, from my iPhone On 2011-12-28, at 18:54, Laura Webb el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Good

Re: MacBook Pro water damage!!!

2011-12-28 Thread Douglas Sheerer
I had a similar situation years ago with a MacBook which was covered by my insurance company under household items. The MacBook was replaced under insurance. I got to keep the old one. I let it dry out for a week or two then tried to restart and YES it did. Just needed to dry out! Do you have

Re: MacBook Pro water damage!!!

2011-12-28 Thread Bill Parker
Laura I concur with the desiccation approach only I would use silica gel (that might be a pharmacy purchase, and if pink or anything other than blue when bought, dry in an oven). Apart from that Macs4U in Midland (great eastern highway) are pretty good, odd opening hours but a phone call

Is this Console Message a runaway process?

2011-12-28 Thread Brian Scott
Hi, I keep getting these same messages in the Console Message pane.. These are some samples I dragged into Mail.. 29/12/11 11:58:00 AM com.apple.launchd[120] (com.epson.epw.agent[13354]) posix_spawnp(/Library/Printers/EPSON/ InkjetPrinter/EPW/IJEPWAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/IJEPWAgent, ...):

Re: MacBook Pro water damage!!!

2011-12-28 Thread James / Hans Kunz
h...oven, with 50 degrees you may kill a few things... a hair dryer may do a job if you can remove the main board check for the liquid spots use isopropyl alcohol (altronics - electronic shop) to wash it off dry, check the keyboard, a sticky (short through liquid) key can disrupt

Re: MacBook Pro water damage!!!

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Laura Sorry to hear that. I'd try looking into House insurance cover first as you may find it's covered there. Secondly, I would think you'd find the Hard Drive should be fine. It shouldn't really need data recovery. It will just be a matter of taking the hard drive out of the laptop and

Re: Is this Console Message a runaway process?

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 29/12/2011, at 12:04 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi, I keep getting these same messages in the Console Message pane.. These are some samples I dragged into Mail.. 29/12/11 11:58:00 AM com.apple.launchd[120] (com.epson.epw.agent[13354]) posix_spawnp(/Library/Printers/EPSON/

Re: Epson stylus 3880 flashing general error

2011-12-28 Thread William Crabb
On 29/12/2011 9:46 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 28/12/2011, at 11:48 PM, William Crabb wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any ideas to get rid of this message.quite new machine, no problems till now.Think it will be ok if I can get rid of message, Cheers, Bill Hi Bill,

Re: Epson stylus 3880 flashing general error

2011-12-28 Thread Ronda Brown
On 29/12/2011, at 3:00 PM, William Crabb wrote: On 29/12/2011 9:46 AM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: On 28/12/2011, at 11:48 PM, William Crabb wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any ideas to get rid of this message.quite new machine, no problems till now.Think it will be ok if I can