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Date:	Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:16:02 PST7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Printer box, was after meeting idea

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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
>
>
> Apropos of this, is anyone familiar with electronic A/B printer
> switches that may be on the market now ?

I have a Linksys bidirectional that I have used for several years to run
four printers from one computer, works the other way also. There are
others. Cyberguys has one for &30.

> I had heard, some years back, that mechanical switches were a very bad idea for
> laser printers, but that electronic ones would avoid harmful surges.

I used mechanical switches until I got an HP 550C. I didn't think it
would work but I tried it anyway. It printed garbage. Probably too
much inter-contact capacitance.

Ray

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