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Change your Braille software to Duxbury for Windows. This will solve all of your problems. Steve. > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:44:23 +0000 > From: Dean Furber <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Networked Braille Embossers > Reply-to: [log in to unmask] > Dear all, > > We have an Index embosser and are currently using > Robotron's BrailleMaster to produce braille locally from > a PC in the library. > > What we would like to do is set the embosser up as a > network printer (connected to an HP Jet Direct card). > This would allow us to move it to a less noise-sensitive > area and make embossing easier and more accessible to > staff and student users. > > Unfortunately we've run in to a couple of difficulties > and I was hoping someone would have some advice as to how > to overcome these problems or possibly suggest an > alternative route. They are: > > 1) The BrailleMaster software doesn't appear (at least as > far as I can find) to have a setting to specify a > non-local printer. This, therefore, rules out network > printing directly from BrailleMaster. > > 2) Converting a text file to braille and then "nprint"ing > from DOS works but without the BrailleMaster software to > interpret the braille file all the control codes, page > breaks etc. are output as a stream of dots. > > Regards, > Dean Furber > FACE Project Officer > University of the West of England > http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/itdev/face/ > > Steve Metcalfe Division of Assistive Resources and Technology University of Lincolnshire & Humberside, UK Tel: +44 (0)1482 440550 ext. 4029 Fax: +44 (0)1482 441411 EMail [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%