Yes Wayne.  It is possible if all the machines are running Win 9x.

Your message is not really clear.   What OS is used on the Dot Matrix
printer's computer?  You said that is uses a DOS program but is it
a Windows based machine also? or is it strictly a DOS machine?

If it is running Windows, then the solution is very easy.
Just share the dot matrix in the same manner that you shared the HP.

Next go to each client and set up the second network printer
just as you did the first.  Then select and set one of the two as
the primary/default printer.  (It can be different for each machine.)

Now when a client wishes to print, just have them click on
FILE -- PRINT and then open the printer drop down box
as needed.

BUT if the PC with the Dot Matrix is running under DOS, then it
gets a little more difficult but not impossible.


Jim Meagher
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----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Harris <[log in to unmask]>


>         I hope there is an answer out there for this rather simple (I hope
> it
> is) problem. I am the Network Administrator for a French-Canadian
Genealogy
> club and I have set up a rather simple system, consisting of different
types
> of computers. I think I have it running fairly smoothly under Win95. The
> problem is I have 2 printers that they need to use for 2 different
reasons.
> There is an HP printer connected to a research computer, that I have
shared
> to another computer, for the purposes of printing info from their various
> Win95 programs that they need to print out. The other printer is an old
> Dot-Matrix printer which is used for cards and labels and which is used
from
> a DOS program called Q & A, which I believe is a database program.
>     My problem and question is, is there a way to print to both printers
> (not at the same time) without the people shutting off the connection from
> the research computer (effectively cutting off the HP printer access) and
to
> always have access to the Dot Matrix printer? The Dot Matrix printer is
> connected physically to the second computer and is not shared. I would
like
> to set up a permanent solution so they can just print the stuff to
whatever
> printer they need automatically, and not have to disconnect anything to do
> it.  Thanks

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