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Connecting to Networked Printer via USB Port
Hello,
I'm a consultant at a client site and currently have no access to their networked printers. Since the printers do have USB ports I was wondering if I could connect my Windows XP Pro laptop to one of these printers via the USB port. Should I be able to do this? Would the printer block the USB port from working if the ethernet connection is on? I already tried to download and install the printer driver but when I try to print I get a print error. So, before I spend too much time troubleshooting the printing problem from my laptop's point of view, I wanted to make sure I wasn't trying to do something that would inherently create a conflict between the printer's ethernet connection and the USB port. Thanks, HR |
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Connecting to Networked Printer via USB Port
You would need to read the manual for the printer to determine if the USB
and Ethernet port can be enabled at the same time. When HP printers used to come with USB and parallel, one port was disabled when you used the other port such that two computer could not "share" the printer. -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base he http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. wrote in message oups.com... Hello, I'm a consultant at a client site and currently have no access to their networked printers. Since the printers do have USB ports I was wondering if I could connect my Windows XP Pro laptop to one of these printers via the USB port. Should I be able to do this? Would the printer block the USB port from working if the ethernet connection is on? I already tried to download and install the printer driver but when I try to print I get a print error. So, before I spend too much time troubleshooting the printing problem from my laptop's point of view, I wanted to make sure I wasn't trying to do something that would inherently create a conflict between the printer's ethernet connection and the USB port. Thanks, HR |
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Connecting to Networked Printer via USB Port
Ooh I never knew that, how mean of them. Canons used to work with both
parallel and USB simultaneously.... and my Lexmark Optra is happily on TCP/IP and parallel. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote in message ... You would need to read the manual for the printer to determine if the USB and Ethernet port can be enabled at the same time. When HP printers used to come with USB and parallel, one port was disabled when you used the other port such that two computer could not "share" the printer. -- Alan Morris |
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Connecting to Networked Printer via USB Port
HP usually works for both connections as well.
-- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base he http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote in message ... Ooh I never knew that, how mean of them. Canons used to work with both parallel and USB simultaneously.... and my Lexmark Optra is happily on TCP/IP and parallel. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote in message ... You would need to read the manual for the printer to determine if the USB and Ethernet port can be enabled at the same time. When HP printers used to come with USB and parallel, one port was disabled when you used the other port such that two computer could not "share" the printer. -- Alan Morris |
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