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Does anyone make a gadget to share a USB printer ?
Is there a 2 or 4 input box that would let several PCs contend for one
printer ? -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. |
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Print Server?
"Al Dykes" wrote in message ... Is there a 2 or 4 input box that would let several PCs contend for one printer ? -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. |
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Best bet is to have your computers on a network.
Then you can share out the printer over the network. Best technique is to attach a wired/wireless print server device to the printer (D-Link and LinkSys make good ones). Best because the printer's always available no matter which computers are turned on. Okay technique is to have the printer attached to a computer, and share it out from there. The drawback with that technique is that the attaching computer has to be on for you to be able to print. -- stan |
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In article ,
Stanley Krute wrote: Best bet is to have your computers on a network. Then you can share out the printer over the network. Best technique is to attach a wired/wireless print server device to the printer (D-Link and LinkSys make good ones). Best because the printer's always available no matter which computers are turned on. Okay technique is to have the printer attached to a computer, and share it out from there. The drawback with that technique is that the attaching computer has to be on for you to be able to print. -- stan I'm _very_ familiar with print servers. Is there a USB box that works like the Centronics print sharing devices of the Bad Old Days. Not that I ever loved them, but they did have a place. -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. |
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Hi Al
I'm _very_ familiar with print servers. Okay. Is there a USB box that works like the Centronics print sharing devices of the Bad Old Days. Yep. Here's one: http://www.qvs.com/switch-usb.asp -- stan |
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Hi again
Here's a Belkin that does the job: http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSecti...ection_Id=1561 -- stan |
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"Stanley Krute" wrote in message m... Best bet is to have your computers on a network. Then you can share out the printer over the network. Best technique is to attach a wired/wireless print server device to the printer (D-Link and LinkSys make good ones). Best because the printer's always available no matter which computers are turned on. Okay technique is to have the printer attached to a computer, and share it out from there. The drawback with that technique is that the attaching computer has to be on for you to be able to print. -- stan Odd I find that my printer needs to be on for me to be able to print too. LOL On the network point I have a good computer and old computer and a really old computer and a laptop set up on a home network. The printers (inkjet & laser) are connected to the new computer and the others share it works great. I would highly recommend Stans setup. I got a Microsoft network hub has a hardwired firewall. I just plugged it in and went form computer to computer to install. My internet goes into it too so the plug and play part of it connected to the internet and self installed the router I guess it is called. Then I just allowed printer sharing on the new computer and then set up the printers on the other computers through printer setup. The whole thing took around an hour to do with 4 computers and 2 printers. Hope that helps. |
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gary wrote:
"Stanley Krute" wrote in message m... Okay technique is to have the printer attached to a computer, and share it out from there. The drawback with that technique is that the attaching computer has to be on for you to be able to print. -- stan Odd I find that my printer needs to be on for me to be able to print too. LOL Did you read the above before you made comment????????????????? And the key words are "the attaching computer has to be on" r Hope that helps. |
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A little humor there. Now pull the broomstick out of your a**.
"Rob" wrote in message ... gary wrote: "Stanley Krute" wrote in message m... Okay technique is to have the printer attached to a computer, and share it out from there. The drawback with that technique is that the attaching computer has to be on for you to be able to print. -- stan Odd I find that my printer needs to be on for me to be able to print too. LOL Did you read the above before you made comment????????????????? And the key words are "the attaching computer has to be on" r Hope that helps. |
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