WOOOHOOO! Print pooling works!!!
Sends first job to first available port, then when you send the next job it
senses the idle printer and sends the job that way. This is a game-changer this
weekend.
Paul Braun
Certified Music Junkie
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold Auerbach
> On Nov 28, 2014, at 14:35, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Assuming that they're both USB connected, and that you have a means of
> setting different names/queues for them, then there shouldn't be an issue.
> Recent versions of Windows even include a printer pooling feature which I
> understand is easy to set up if both printers are the same make and model.
> See this brief write up:
> http://www.frogmorecs.com/arts/using-printer-pooling/
>
> Doing it with different makes/models would be problematic, due to the
> differing printer drivers, but might be able to be done if both used a
> common driver, like postscript.
>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Cool. Will build that into the budget for next year. Next trick - can I
>> plug 2 dye-sub printers into one laptop and just alternate sending jobs to
>> them?
>>
>>
>> Paul Braun
>> Certified Music Junkie
>>
>> "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
>>
>> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold Auerbach
>>
>>> On Nov 28, 2014, at 13:35, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, Paul. Exactly like that works great.
>>>
>>> Ag
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