[rosssanford]

I have an Epson laser printer with a parallel and USB connection. My iMac is connected via the USB interface, and my wife's Wintel PC is connect via the parallel interface. (The printer is smart enough to direct traffic from both interfaces without any problems.)

I am wondering if there is any means to share the USB interface with BOTH computers. If anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks.

[Paul Huang]

USB is not a networking device nor can you connect two computers to one USB device, including a USB hub.

[ginoledesma]

You can't simultanouesly share a USB device using the same interface. You might want to consider a USB-to-Ethernet connector which "might" allow the device to be networkable. Then, connect the device to the Ethernet hub/switch and install the corresponding software on the devices.

But in the meantime, the only solution you have is your current setup, which I also have in sharing my HP Deskjet 895Cxi printer with a PC and a Mac.

[scdean]

What's wrong with the way you have it? I have a B&W G3 and an IBM laptop both connected at the same time (Mac to USB, IBM to Parallel) to the Epson EPL-5700i. It works totally seamlessly.

[rosssanford]

My wife wants to use a parallel only inkjet printer and I do not want to use a switch box or install an additional LPT card into a dumb Wintel PC...