Thread: Networking Multiple Printers
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Old 21-02-2009, 16:28   #5
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Re: Networking Multiple Printers
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Originally Posted by Jon T View Post
That'll be down to the hardware/firmware inside the print server. Your print server would have to have the capability of either learning or being told that it's got additional ports attached to it. Otherwise it can't make any association between USB ports and the different printers attatched,

To be honest I think your going to need to buy a print server with multiple USB ports on it.
Agreed. I have a D-Link print server that can handle 2 x USB & 1 Parallel. Each port has a different internal address within the server. It can only work through firmware so the server knows where to send the data.

When you create each printer connection you have to choose one of the firmware addresses so data gets sent to the right 'door'. A dumb USB device can't do that.
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