Re: Two USB printers anyone?
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Originally Posted by monnier
I'm looking at getting a new printer (or multifunction device as you might have noticed
my "sharing a scanner" post) and was wondering if anybody has already gotten
his wl500g setup to share two USB printers over the network. Most likely
over the "raw" (aka JetDirect) protocol.
Does it all just work transparently ?
Haven't tried myself, but I can probably help.
It is possible, but not transparently. All you need is to start another daemon for the second printer.
If you telnet to the box, command "/usr/sbin/p9101d -f /dev/usb/lp1 2" should start another daemon on port 9102, working with printer attached to /dev/usb/lp1 (kernel automatically creates the device once you attach second printer).
You can add the command to the post-startup script.