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airport- USB switch or USB for mulitple printers?
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Neub Detat
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Mar 30, 2006, 03:00 PM
 
HI
i have successfully printed via Bonjour to an HP all-in-one printer. i had a couple rounds with HP tech support to make it work (kudos to their tech support)

now the question is, if i want to have two more printers available to me wirelessly, i assume i need a USB switch or will a USB hub do? and how may it affect my set up? I'd like to know before i run out and buy something i may not need

thanks, cs
     
dimmer
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Mar 30, 2006, 03:06 PM
 
Are you printing via wireless at this time? The USB connection from a base station will, as I remember, support a single printer only, no hubs, no other devices.

If you are using a USB connection from your Mac, installing a USB hub and additional printers will work fine.
     
tooki
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Mar 30, 2006, 05:12 PM
 
Note that the Power-over-ethernet version of the AirPort Extreme Base Station does support using a USB hub to share 4 printers. The regular versions, indeed, do not allow this.

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