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How to connect a printer to more then one computer?

Is it possible to connect more than one computer to a printer that is not a network printer?

  • I am installing a new printer , fax, scanner, copier I have two workstations at that location. If it is not a newt work printer is it possible to print from both PC's?

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    1. If your PCs are networked connect the printer to one PC and share it so that the other PC ban print through it. 2. Connect through a auto or manual A/B switch. 3. Connect through a USB Y cable or USB Hub. 4. If your printer has more than one port, connect to different PC with different port. That means One PC through Parallel port and the other through USB port.

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Use a Y Junction Cable at Both Ends, maybe a Splitter, so that Two Printer Output Cables can be linked to one printer.... that way no file Sharing, since that will be a network Well, can try an Auto Switch Connector( Same as A/B but no Flicking Around) http://www.leunig.de/_en/_pro/auto-switch/magicbox.htm However: http://www.tokyopc.org/newsletter/1996/09/Cables2.html Try lindy.com for cables that will run from two PCs to one Printer. I found a Website in I think it was Russian that said it was about the Two Pcs to one printer connection. However it seems that the So called Intelligent Switch in a Previous link in this Answer is the most common solution for Two PC's to one Printer without setting up a Network Option.

Mictlan_KISS

You can do one of two things. 1) Buy a print-server device that allows you to turn your printer into a network printer. 2) Enable file and print sharing from the computer to which it is currently installed,share your printer, then install it on the other computer.

DJ

There are a few different ways you can do this. One way is to do what the other guy said, and turn on printer sharing (go to the control panel, printers and faxes, right click on the installed printer, choose sharing, give it a name. From the other computer, go to same control panel, click add printer, follow the directions for adding a printer on another computer.) Alternately, you could get an A/B switch- but you have to make sure it's set to the right one when you try to print.

Bob Z

If the PCs are networked, yes. If the Printer can be connected to both, yes. If you can easily swap cables, yes. Hope that helps, Simon H P.S If you can't, just buy a USB Pen Drive for about 5 quid and you can just move from one PC to the other.

Simon H

Yes. Turn on File/Printer Sharing.

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