Harry G wrote: >I am using Suse 7.3, and have to use 3 different printers (all >parrallel) depending on the job One HP Laserjet 6L, a Epson Stylus >Color 900, and a Okidata Microline 320 for multi-part forms. Would a >printer selector switche work well under this situation? > I've run under Slackware and Red Hat a HP Laserjet 4 and an HP 2000C Deskjet, switching between them with a two-way mechanical switch made by Belkin called a Bitronics DataSwitch (which is so old now that they probably don't make them anymore). I use CUPS and simply set up two printers. Then I can choose which printer I want in the application I want to print from, and flip the switch to it --- there is no need to reboot.
It was at one time advised not to use electronic switches with laser printers for risk of damaging them, but I don't know if this is still valid or not. BOF _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
