[duxuser] Re: Embossing problem: this could be tricky...
- From: Brian Osborne <bosborne11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:24:01 -0400
Bob,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, so that works! The only wrinkle is that this configures the Thomas as a
printer, so when I’m in Duxbury I’m now embossing by using the Print...
command, not the Emboss... command.
Is that correct?
Thanks again,
Brian O.
On 5/11/07 3:42 PM, "bwatson01@xxxxxxxxxxx" <bwatson01@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My apologies on the last email attempt. I believe my blackberry unit is acting
> up! Anyway-- the information was that you should set up the printer under XP
> as well. As a "virtual port", like is USB XXX (where the xxx stands for 001,
> 002 etc). Then assign a "generic text printer" to that port and all should be
> fine.
>
>
>
>> -------------- Original message --------------
>> From: Brian Osborne <bosborne11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Duxusers,
>>
>> I have a Thomas Junior Plus 40 embosser that worked fine with the old
>> computer (parallel to parallel), we bought a new computer so naturally
>> everything has to be reconfigured. This new computer is running Windows XP
>> and like many new computers has no parallel ports, just USB ports. So I
>> connect the Thomas to the computer using a parallel-to-USB cable (Belkin).
>> Then I configure the embosser from the Duxbury Global menu, Global ->
>> Embosser Setup -> New -> Enabling Thomas. Now I when I try to emboss from
>> Duxbury I get an error message of ˆ1, doesn‚t really tell me much but I‚m not
>> surprised ˆ how is Duxbury supposed to know that it‚s supposed to print to
>> one of the USBs?
>>
>> Does anyone know how to configure this? I‚d expect this would not be a rare
>> problem, there‚s plenty of embossers around that use parallel ports and
>> there‚s plenty of new computers without parallel ports.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Brian O.
>
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