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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>,
	"Alexey Koptsevich" <kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru>
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Subject: RE: 2nd printer
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:08:01 -0800
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Or you can buy a HP JetDirect EX3 for about $100 from
Ebay and plug it into a network card on the system,
then plug the printers into that.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Meyer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:53 AM
> To: Alexey Koptsevich
> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: 2nd printer
> 
> 
> Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru> 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.
> 
> 	<mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			
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> Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more 
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