Hello everybody OK, I've followed all of the procedures regarding the installation of the USB to Parallel cable I bought. No luck I'm afraid. The adapter is supposed to transparently convert the data if you assign it a parallel port. But unfortunately in the Windows device manager it isn't even showing up as associated with any ports if I plug in and power up the embosser/printer. The only place where the device is visible in Windows 7 SP1 is in Control Panel>Device Manager>USB Host Controllers. There are absolutely no ports, Comm & LPT, anywhere on the machines, not a single one. The properties of the device have only 3 tabs; General, Driver and Details. The General tab and the details tab only contain a description of the device, as in anything you care to enter. The Driver tab contains a driver number and it's dated 2006.
So We are now totally stumped. The only option left to us now is to plug it into a Mac, see if it's recognised and if so, whether we can print to it. If so, maybe we can find an embosser package for the Mac; I think Index does one. But, if anybody else can suggest anything else for Windows I'd be grateful; as both of us find Duxberry the most efficient transcription tool. I just don't want to mess around with transcriptions which require about 6 step to complete, if I can avoid it. DBT is still the best translation and embossing tool I have ever tried; and I know my way around it. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
