Re: How to connect two Parallel printer on USB

In article <ant2616390b0pErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Evans
<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was going to send this to the Iyonix mailing list but then realised
> it applies also to the A9

> We have two customers who need to connect two parallel printers to
> their Iyonixes

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> The options I have theorised that should work are:

> Option 1: Have two USB-Parallel units, I believe the units would have
> to have different vendor and product IDs (we have two very different
> units here that have the same ID as they are based on the same chip set)

Use this option for direct USB connections. The other options all have
issues. Yes, they need to have different vendor/product ids.

Ian

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