[Novalug] Printer reccommendations

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, rarob at comcast.net wrote:

> I would, except that we don't leave out 'puters on all the 
> time.  I've got the all of the PPC flavors running on my dual 
> g5 mac, my wife runs one copy of XP on her old athlon, and the 
> ubunto/FC5/second XP run under parallels on the macmini.  And 
> that machine is somewhat underpowered.  Hence the hope for a 
> single machine that everyone could see and print to, without 
> requiring a 24/7 machine to be the printserver.

 	Depending on your floor plan, another idea *might* work.

 	My latest KVM switch, bought because I've never been 
fully satisfied with its predecessors, is USB and has two extra 
ports, which are supposed to work with any two USB peripherals. 
I use them for an external CD/DVD-RW drive, and my HP 1315 series 
printer.

 	I seldom print much nowadays, but certainly all machines 
see the DVD drive, and I *think* they all print OK

 	I'm not sure who makes the switch. It says MiniView, and 
G-CSIO4U; it has four ports. Maybe somebody'll start making hubs 
with extra ports, for those who don't use KVM switches.

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