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Date:	Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:17:29 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: after meeting idea

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J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> electronic A/B printer switches that may be on
> the market now ? 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.

Foxy,

The mechanical switches should be fine. The cable between the computer
and printer doesn't carry high voltages and the current flow is _real_
small, so you shouldn't have any "surges".

The signals from the computer to the printer don't change just because
it's a laser printer; an ink jet printer results in the same signals.
If a mechanical switch is bad for one then it's bad for both.

Operationally, a network hardware print server still might be the better
solution. The users doesn't have to flip a switch or (if you have two
printers on the switch) worry about which printer driver they're
currently using.

- Electron Pete

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