From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 6:53: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9001F37B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2789 invoked by uid 100); 14 Feb 2001 14:53:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14986.39890.2176.304613@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:53:06 -0600 To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2nd printer In-Reply-To: <20452632@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey Koptsevich types: > Is it possible to connect 2 parallel printers to regular x86 box somehow? Yes. Buy a USB<->parallel connector instead of a parallel cable, and use that to plug the second printer into a USB port. Works like a charm, and the USB throughput is better than the parallel throughput. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message