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The best way for your case is to use a interface card which gives you an extra
LPT 2. Then you can have Brother printer on LPT1, scanner on LPT2, BJC 250
connected on scanner.
J Qian
"Harold E. Schumacher, Jr." wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need some help trying to figure out how to hook up 2 printers and
> a scanner on an A/B switch box. We did what we thought was right,
> but we obviously goofed up something.
> From the back of the computer we have a cable from the printer port
> to the A/B switch box I/O port. A cable goes from 'A' port on
> switch box to scanner. From scanner, a cable goes to the printer we
> want to be 'default' which is a Canon BJC 250. A cable goes from
> the 'B' port on switch box to the other printer which is a Brother
> L1014 (not exactly sure about the model #).
> First of all, are the cables in order as I have described them?
> Then, when printing a 'test' document and switching from one printer
> to another using the switch, do you also have to change the
> 'default' printer in the Printer folder to whichever you want to use
> at that time?
> We just kept getting inconsistent results with the way it is set-up
> right now; was able to print a scanned picture on the Canon, but not
> always able to print a text doc on the Brother after switching to
> 'B'. Coming back to the Canon would then only bring up a dialog box
> about the print cartridge; can't remember what it said, but seemed
> irrelevant because it just printed a few minutes ago.
> Sorry for being so long winded, but tried to give as many details
> as possible.
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