From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 11:59:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.inwind.it (relay4.inwind.it [212.141.53.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BE337B401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:59:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.171.136) by relay4.inwind.it (5.1.056) id 3A88018C000722C3; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:58:40 +0100 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:02:00 GMT Message-ID: <20010214.20020000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: 2nd printer To: Mike Meyer Cc: Alexey Koptsevich , questions@freebsd.org References: <14986.39890.2176.304613@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 2/14/01, 3:53:06 PM, Mike Meyer wrote regarding Re: 2nd printer: > 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. Hello (again) Mike, Such a solution should also apply to *any* parallel-port-connected peripheral... right (?) Well, erm, I have -- *sigh* -- a parallel port scanner. I do NOT want to have to boot LoseBlows to be able to scan an image. Best regards, Salvo (trying to get completely rid of Loseblows) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message