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Lionel Catalog problems
Posted by danrunner on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 4:28 PM

Anyone else find printing the new lionel catalog off of the net impossible?  I've tried several PCs on several networks with several printers.  Scrolling through the catalog on-line is equally frustrating. The pages enlarge when i drag my cursor over them. and the page bogs/slows down...  It's driving me nuts.  The MTH, Weaver catalogs, etc print effortlessly

Anyone else have a problem or is it just me?

 

Thanks in advance

 

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Posted by Train-O on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 4:44 PM

dan,

Sometimes, it is difficult and slow on Lionel's Web.Site.

Less often, but also some problems with M.T.H's. Web. Site.

Another thing, I find is, if I'm copying a particular page, when I return to the full page some items are deleted, or the item has moved from its previous position, to a new one.

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Posted by jwse30 on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 5:16 PM

If I remember right, you could download it as a PDF from their website, in addition to the version you're talking about. There site's down right now, or at least it is for me, or I'd look for it for you.

I would think a PDF would be easier to print than the HTML one.

 

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Posted by danrunner on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 7:31 PM

jwse30

If I remember right, you could download it as a PDF from their website, in addition to the version you're talking about. There site's down right now, or at least it is for me, or I'd look for it for you.

I would think a PDF would be easier to print than the HTML one.

 

J White

 

 

I'm already downl;oading them as PDFs and they still won't print and the printer buffer just times out.  It's totally frustrating.

 

Time for Lionel to hire somebody to re-do their on-line catalogs...Good Grief!

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Posted by Train-O on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 10:42 PM

dan,

Forget trying to print an enlargement from a Lionel catalog, sort of locked out.
I believe that Lionel intentionally don't want anyone to copy their properties.

You know, copy right infringrements.

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:26 PM

View the catalog in HTML.

Click on the product listed.

 Use the Print Preview option to print just the part you need.

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Posted by Train-O on Friday, February 11, 2011 7:15 AM

Thank you Andrew,

I'n not computer savvy and the expert, who's correct in telling me; "Check the instruction manual!," runs out of the house leaving me with this new fang dangled contraption!!!

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Sunday, February 13, 2011 12:03 AM

It was so easy to print out using the print preview that I unintentionally printed out two copies of the Minneapolis & St. Louis RS3 set.

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