[duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

  • From: "Lynne Bach" <Lynne2b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:58:31 -0600

John,

If you are already using the LPT port for your Brother Scanner Printer there
is a real easy fix. You need a switch box that is available at Radio Shack
or Circuit City or Best Buy. They are also called A/B switches. You plug
your main cable coming from your computer into the Switch box. You put the
Brother printer on plug A and the Blazer on Plug B, then you just switch the
button before you use the applicable printer. 

 

Lynne C. Bach

Lynne2b@xxxxxxxxxxx

Ph: 847-629-7503

Fax: 847-629-7514

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Sanders
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:56 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

Hi, yes i do have a brother scanner/printer connected to my computer.

I'm completely so, i don't really feel like disconnecting things if i can
help it.

so, you want me to add my brother scanner/printer as a janarric/text only
printer?

Sincerely,

John Sanders

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Francis E. Khan <mailto:fekhan@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:22 AM

Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

John:

 

Do you have another printer - a print printer - which is directed to LPT1?
The other day I installed Duxbury for a friend who also has a Braille Blazer
and when we tried to emboss on LPT1 nothing happened since he was using a
deskjet or Cannon printer on the same port.  To get the embosser to work I
added a generic/text only to the printers and faxes in the appropriate
folder in the control panel and then chose the generic/text only item in the
global embosser set up menu.  The Braille Blazer worked well after that.

 

Even when the Blazer was disconnected and the other printer was connected
the system worked.

 

Francis Khan

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Blackburn, Alan <mailto:Alan.Blackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:03 PM

Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

John

Is the power cord plugged securely into the machine?

Is the power plug plugged fully into the wall socket . not half out or
making nasty buzzing sounds?

If you are using a plug box . has it a cut out button (overload/short) . if
so, re-set it (usually by pushing it in). If it blows again get an someone
to check it . you have a serious problem somewhere.

Is the Blazer actually turned on at its power switch?

 

Don't laugh . I spent 30 years in bands trying to trouble shoot why
electronics wouldn't work! After an hour or so of sifting through a
spaghetti maze of wiring you learn that the first thing to check is the
power!!

A long shot but I hope this helps.

Alan

 


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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Lynne Bach
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2006 12:47 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

John,

My daughter's machine is also a Blazer you can email me directly off the
list or I could copy my Blazer manual and email it to you, but I would need
your direct email since I think the user list won't allow attachments. 

There are a few other questions I have

1. Is the blazer making any noise at all? Is it talking to you? If it is
brailing gibberish and talking then it is a setting you need to adjust. 

2. If it is not doing anything at all? If so, did you go through the set up
process when Duxbury says to turn off the authorization on 10.5 release 1
before adding 10.5 release 2? If you didn't follow that step then you should
be still able to open the old program and your blazer should run, there is a
conflict in the two programs.

3. Another item I would ask you is if you change your computer hook up in
any way? Did you go from a parallel to a serial port? Make sure your
settings in the blazer and in the Duxbury program are the same.

 

If you would like me to copy and email my owner's manual I can. My daughter'
blazer is at least ten years old so we've had our share of program changes,
computer changes etc. If I copy it to an email it would be an Adobe file or
PDF and if you have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 or better the file should read out
loud to you.

 

Technology is the best of good and evil, I even had to give her Christmas
present from her grandmother of a new computer to her siblings. I ended up
having to do a major Windows update on her old machine because the new
computers are not coming out with Parallel ports on all machines. And some
of the newer computers like Dell's skinny computer, the hardware
manufacturer's haven't caught up with the computer people and there are no
new parallel ports to add to the new computer's internally, they have to be
external and USB, which the Blazer is picky about. 

 

I can try to help but we may do better off list. 

 

Lynne C. Bach

Lynne2b@xxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of George Bell
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 8:07 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

John has a Braille Blazer.

 

George.

 


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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Lynne Bach
Sent: 12 February 2006 03:10
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

John..

What type of embosser are you using.that may help us with your problem

 

Lynne C. Bach

Lynne2b@xxxxxxxxxxx

Ph: 847-629-7503

Fax: 847-629-7514

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Sanders
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 7:50 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

Hi, no the braille embosser is not braille anything. I've done that already
and it still doesn't work.

could you some one please help me?

Sincerely,

John Sanders

    

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Lynne Bach <mailto:Lynne2b@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:57 PM

Subject: [duxuser] Re: embosser not brailing document

 

Is it brailing anything? If not working at all, start Duxbury, at the top
where you find "file" "edit" go a couple more tabs and you will find
settings and under that tab is embosser set up. Find your embosser on the
list and save settings.

 

If your Brailler is brailing miscellaneous information the embosser bar may
need to be flipped over. This occurs on the Braille Blazer, there is a
little handle on the embosser bar that my daughter use to occasionally flip
and the embosser bar then is in graphing mode.

 

Hopefully this helps.

 

Lynne C. Bach

Lynne2b@xxxxxxxxxxx

 

-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Sanders
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 6:48 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] embosser not brailling document

 

Hi, i have a question: my braille embosser is not brailling documents.

I have dux bury braille translater 10.5 service release 2.

How should i go about fixing this?

Sincerely,

John Sanders

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