Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I have an Epson RX700. It has two paper paths, a front feed for regular paper, and a rear feed for thick paper and envelopes. Love it. Stewart At 01:07 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote: Try the Canon PIXMA MP520. It is a multifunction printer which has two paper paths. Really nice machine. db

[CGUYS] website parked

2008-01-22 Thread gerald
Among others, I own www.slawecki.com, and www.slawecki.net. I use .com, and have put the items i wish on it. my wife uses .net...She decided to put those items near and dear to her on slawecki.net should be no problem, as we have a contract with allnet to allow 30gign on their server.

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Thanks db and Stewart for your suggestions of alternative machines, but those are inkjets. The Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer is a color laser printer which Brother rates at 21 pages per minute, black or color. I've been looking for a color laser multifunction printer for a long

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
All the Color Lasers I know of do not use a straight through pathway. (HP, Brother, Konica, Okidata etc.) Stewart At 08:49 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote: Thanks db and Stewart for your suggestions of alternative machines, but those are inkjets. The Brother MFC 9840CDW Multifunction Printer is a

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Part of it may be the fact that it has to pass though multiple toners tog et it. I don't know. I do know that the copiers made by many (Cannon and Xerox) do get straight through paths, but they are much more expensive. Stewart At 10:55 AM 1/22/2008, you wrote: That's not good. Straight

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Pr

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
All the Color Lasers I know of do not use a straight through pathway. (HP, Brother, Konica, Okidata etc.) Neither does my Dell. The paper path in a color laser is complicated because it has to go past multiple transfer rollers. The paper has to go round and round. There is no possibility of a

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Pr

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
Straight through is so valuable, and monochrome laser printers have it. Perhaps it's more difficult to achieve with color laser printers. However, if the back opens... (As I started out saying...) You are missing the point. The paper in the printer has to do a loop the loop four times inside

[CGUYS] WiFi stumbler for Macs

2008-01-22 Thread b_s-wilk
MacStumbler doesn't work on my MacBook. What other stumbler app has a voice that names networks? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL

Re: [CGUYS] website parked

2008-01-22 Thread Tony B
Opinion: All that stuff should be in a sub directory. A home page named after your family should have a message to the ages, and contact information for today. Hi! Welcome to the S family. We're from x and I can be reached at y. Right now there's nothing there that you couldn't store at any

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Printer?

2008-01-22 Thread Tony B
It's not valuable to most people. What are you printing so much of that needs to be on really thick paper? It's nothing you can do at Staples? As I recall, most of the printers I've owned won't print when open. Yes, it might be a switch you could easily duck tape, but it seems to me if the

Re: [CGUYS] DVD/CDRW Not recognized

2008-01-22 Thread Givings Thomas
Thomas Wash DC I had the same problem once,(the CD-Rom drive would light up and then go dead) I check at the setup bios to see how much voltage I was using, it turn out the power supply was insufficient to run the CD-Rom drive. You may want to Do a test with no USB connections being used and If

[CGUYS] Nero Mobile performance crawls

2008-01-22 Thread Joe Tseng
I have a copy of Nero 7.10 on my notebook and recently installed Nero Mobile on my Verizon 6800 after I synced them. I am not able to use Nero Mobile on my smartphone as it crawls to the point of being unusable. Does anyone know of some way to see what may be the issue? (The 6800 is my first

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Pr

2008-01-22 Thread gerald
the bigger xerox printers (really big) have a number of separate color print stations. their path is straight. the alignment of the paper is part of the problem. as tom said, they are very long. i have a couple of relatively expensive xerox color laser printers. they do loop the loop with

[CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies

2008-01-22 Thread Constance Warner
Here's my dilemma: when my printer quit, I thought I could just buy another one and plug it in. That was naïve. When I got to the store, I was told that none of the printers currently for sale would work with OS 9. Why not? I asked. It's the drivers, I was told. The printers just

Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen Brownfield
My wife's PowerBook is still running OS9. She prints using our Brother 2040 without any problems. They clerk at the store has probably just read what is on the boxes. I'd say find the printers you like then check their web site for drivers. Steve P.S. - If you can't find any drivers for

Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
My wife's PowerBook is still running OS9. She prints using our Brother 2040 without any problems. They clerk at the store has probably just read what is on the boxes. I'd say find the printers you like then check their web site for drivers. This is probably correct. Brother uses a lot of

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Pr

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
I had a Xerox 2135 color printer that was a straight path printer and what a piece of junk it was. Now I have an HP 5550 color LaserJet, without a straight path, and it has been rock solid. The Xerox would break every 3 months or so. -Original Message- the bigger xerox printers

Re: [CGUYS] WiFi stumbler for Macs

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen Brownfield
Have you tried AP Grapher (http://www.chimoosoft.com/products/apgrapher/) b_s-wilk wrote: MacStumbler doesn't work on my MacBook. What other stumbler app has a voice that names networks? * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND

Re: [CGUYS] WiFi stumbler for Macs

2008-01-22 Thread Steve Rigby
On Jan 22, 2008, at 1:40 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: MacStumbler doesn't work on my MacBook. What other stumbler app has a voice that names networks? KISmac will do it. AP Grapher has been suggested, but it is not a stumbler. Steve

Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies

2008-01-22 Thread Fred Holmes
If I understand it correctly, only very old legacy printers have the Postscript engine in the printer itself. Modern Postscript printers do the Postscript interpretation (rasterization) using a driver in the OS of the motherboard, and send only the raster to the printer. (All modern printers

Re: [CGUYS] Make a Straight Through Paper Path for a Brother Pr

2008-01-22 Thread Alvin Auerbach
You might be correct, but I don't think so. This Brother MFC9840CDW printer is of a fairly new design. It does not use a carousel. The four toner cartridges are parallel to each other, and I think that the paper makes only one pass over the cartridges. This is how the machine achieves a

Re: [CGUYS] OS 9 printer follies

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Piwowar
If I understand it correctly, only very old legacy printers have the Postscript engine in the printer itself. Modern Postscript printers do the Postscript interpretation (rasterization) using a driver in the OS of the motherboard, and send only the raster to the printer. Not so. Plenty of

[CGUYS] Can't see my Thunderbird Address Books

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Mollner
Hi everyone, I am running Mac OS 10.4.11 and using Thunderbird as my e-mail client. I have 4 separate address books in Thunderbird. When I compose an e-mail, I can see the address books in the Contacts Pane. However, when I open the Address Book window (Main Menu - Window - Address Book or

[CGUYS] Microsoft dumps Vista virtualization limits

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarti cleId=9058360source=rss_news10 or http://tinyurl.com/3dknz6 Microsoft Corp. on Monday dropped its prohibition on running the least-expensive versions of Windows Vista in virtual machines, doubling the choices for

[CGUYS] 24 in '94

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Wright
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Re: [CGUYS] WiFi stumbler for Macs

2008-01-22 Thread b_s-wilk
On Jan 22, 2008, at 1:40 PM, b_s-wilk wrote: MacStumbler doesn't work on my MacBook. What other stumbler app has a voice that names networks? KISmac will do it. AP Grapher has been suggested, but it is not a stumbler. I just downloaded KisMac today. It can play sounds for networks but it