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  • Versaworks install without printer?

    Posted by John Wilson on April 21, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    I’m trying to install Versaworks on a machine that won’t be attached to the printer

    Mostly just for sizing up jobs and quick quotes without going all the way into my workshop

    But when I install it, it tries to find a printer to verify setup, does anyone know a way to bypass this?

    Cheers

    Jason Xuereb replied 15 years ago 6 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    April 21, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    John
    you can buy a dongle, but the easiest way is to just connect the printer the once. It will not try to find it again unless something lets VW know the printer is not present.

    Kev

  • John Wilson

    Member
    April 21, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    Buy a dongle? wonder how much that would be? :lol1:

    Might try to source a very long usb cable to set it up the one time…. just can’t be fecked moving my mac into the workshop just for that one time 😥

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    April 21, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    possibly by printer sharing on the net work.

    chris

  • John Wilson

    Member
    April 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    Thanks an idea

    I’ll just phone Roland in the morning and post results

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    April 21, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Kevin’s way is the best I have it on my laptop here now and alls good only connected the printer once and has been working for over a year
    Rich

  • John Wilson

    Member
    April 22, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Spoke with Roland today

    Only way to do it is to connect the computer to the printer

  • John Thomson

    Member
    April 22, 2009 at 9:26 pm
    quote Kevin Flowers:

    John
    you can buy a dongle, but the easiest way is to just connect the printer the once.
    Kev

    I thought that the printer was the ‘dongle’ for VW?

    john

  • Kevin Flowers

    Member
    April 22, 2009 at 9:33 pm

    John
    the printer is but they do a dongle so that pre V machines can be run

    Kev

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    April 23, 2009 at 10:38 am

    I have versaworks installed on my machine without the printer attached? I have the printer on the network.

    Actually I have versaworks on about 4 machines in the office.

    What version of versaworks and how is your printer connected?

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