[duxuser] Re: installing embossers
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:11:05 -0000
Hi Jean,
I would strongly recommend that your IT people contact the
embosser manufacturers themselves. They will be best placed
to advise you here, and also advise if there are any
specific windows drivers which can be installed, or, if
necessary, give advice on installing perhaps a Generic/Text
Only printer.
The IT people will also know what connections are available.
For example, it may be necessary to use something like an HP
Jet Direct Print Server between the Network Port and the
embosser, since the embossers themselves probably do not
have network ports.
Alternatively, it may be possible to "share" an embosser
which is connected directly to a PC, although that PC would
obviously need to remain powered on when anyone wanted to
use the embosser. This can usually be done by installing a
Generic/Text Only printer locally, and sharing it.
Networking embossers can sometimes be tricky, but your IT
staff should know the basics which helps a lot.
George.
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean
Menzies
Sent: 21 December 2006 05:38
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: installing embossers
Hi Kay,
That's kind of what I thought, but I wasn't sure what to
tell our IT folks.
Better yet, how can they be set up on a print server which
is not connected to a specific PC? We have about 15 other
kinds of print printers on a server, so can the braille
embossers be installed there and shared that way
independently of a local PC connection? If so, do you know
how?
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: Kay Malmquist <mailto:kay.malmquist@xxxxxxxxx>
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:33 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: installing embossers
Once you get this network set up, you should be able
to go in to embosser setup and if the printers are on the
network you should be able to put them in your list.
Kay Malmquist
kay.malmquist@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Armando Maldonado
<mailto:amaldonado4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: installing embossers
Yes you did an excellent job. Now' it's telling
duxbury where to emboss.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kay Malmquist
<mailto:kay.malmquist@xxxxxxxxx>
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: installing embossers
Jean,
They would have to go in to control panel
under printers and faxes and find the generic printer name
for the embosser and go in to its properties and set up file
sharing. This is assuming that these computers are
networked together. If they are, yes, it can be done. Then
you would have to map a network drive from each of the
computers to the other printers. I probably haven't done a
good job of explaining this but it can be done and should
work well.
Kay Malmquist
kay.malmquist@xxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Menzies
<mailto:jemenzies@xxxxxxx>
To: DBT list <mailto:duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: [duxuser] installing embossers
At work we have two embossers. One is a
Romeo 50 Plus which I have just installed on one computer.
The other is our main embosser which is a Braillo 200 and it
is also a stand-alone embosser working off its own PC.
While the computers are networked, the embossers are not.
The embossers are not directly hooked up to
a server, but are connected directly to their respective
PC's.
Is there a way I can instruct them to hook
them up so that I can send a file to either embosser through
the connected computers and have it go to an embosser?
Right now I, or anyone else, have to log on to the computer
and find the file and emboss locally.
E.G. The Romeo 50 plus. Is there a way to
use the standard generic printer driver installation and
make it a shared printer that could be accessed as long as
that PC was on? Same question for the Braillo.
What else might I need to have them do?
Jean
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