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PRODUCT REVIEW
Print on the run with PrintBoy Deluxe
By Chris Phillips
One of the frustrating things about using a Palm device is the lack of ways to share information with people who don't have one of their own. I do almost everything with my Palm Vx, and after using a Palm device for three years, I have a considerable repository of information at my fingertips. Yet many times, the only way I can share it with other people is to make a copy of the information using a pen and paper.
PrintBoy Deluxe (at http://www.bachmannsoftware.com) is one of several programs on the market that attempt to compensate for this by enabling you to print directly from your Palm device. The preferred way to do this is to beam the information to an IR enabled printer, although PrintBoy Deluxe also supports serial printing using a special third-party cable.
Installation and use
You should refer to the documentation for installation. PrintBoy Deluxe requires you to install 17 files and won't work properly if they're not all there.
Once the program is installed, you'll see that two icons, pictured in Figure A, have been added to your launcher.
FIGURE A
Two icons will be added to your launcher.
The first is BMP Config, which you'll use to configure a printer driver for PrintBoy Deluxe to use. PrintBoy Deluxe supports many different kinds of printers, as shown in Figure B.
FIGURE B
PrintBoy Deluxe supports many different kinds of printers.
However, the only one I was able to test was the HP LaserJet series (at http://www.hp.com/country/us/eng/prodserv.htm). You'll want to run this program first so that you can configure your default printer. Again, if you have any questions about this process, you should refer to the documentation.
The second icon is the one for PrintBoy Deluxe. Tapping on this icon will bring up the main screen, pictured in Figure C, where you'll be presented with a list of items that may be printed.
FIGURE C
On the main screen, you'll be presented with a list of items that may be printed.
PrintBoy features
PrintBoy has a number of interesting and useful features, which are described in the following sections.
PrintBoy Spreadsheet
One of the more robust features of PrintBoy Deluxe is its ability to interface with QuickOffice (at http://www.cesinc.com/quickoffice/) to print QuickSheet spreadsheets. Options are available to allow you to choose whether you want portrait or landscape printing and whether or not you want gridlines. If your workbook has multiple sheets, you can also choose which sheets you want to print, as shown in Figure D.
FIGURE D
There are several options for printing a spreadsheet.
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