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Bruce-
Are you sure that's the *printer* and not the scanner? The PhotoSmart
printer we have has only one Centronics-style printer port on the back.
If the scanner has two ports on the back, DON'T try to hook a printer to
one of them - you can daisy-chain SCSI devices on it, but the printer
port is entirely different - you could kill the scanner if you plugged
a printer into it!
Assuming that you are in fact talking about the Printer, I haven't a clue,
as the model we received has no such construction. The safest advice would be
to get a cheap parallel-port switchbox and use it to physically switch between
the two devices. If the ports truly are a pass-through, you could still have
(non-fatal) conflicts between the devices, unless only one were powered-up
at any given time. - There's no provision in parallel port protocol to
discriminate between multiple connected devices.
Hope this helps, good luck,
Dave Etchells
web@imaging-resource.com
PS: This would be a great question for the discussion forum. Could you post
both
your question and my response to the forum, so others could see? (I didn't
want to take the liberty of posting your question without your permission.)
Maybe someone out there has the model of PhotoSmart printer you do, and could
answer from direct experience...
(The forum is at http://www.imaging-resource.com/FORUM.HTM)
>I have recently purchased HP's PhotoSmart printer. I have not hooked it
>up to my computer yet, but I noted that there are two SCSI imputs at the
>rear of the device. Does this mean that I can loop a printer into that
>imput and not have it conflict with my existing printer? The reason I am
>asking is because I own a HP printer presently that is not photo
>quality, and I want to purchase the Alps dry ink printer for my photo
>needs. My wife will need to use the HP printer for her business needs
>because it prints envelopes and the Alps does not. Would it be possible
>to configure a setup that would run all of these peripherals with no
>conflicts? If so how would I accomplish that? Thank you for your time.
-- Bruce Edwards (editb@bellatlantic.net), December 01, 1998