How to hook up two printers to one print server?

[axelfox]

I have a Siemens Wireless router with print server and currently
have a HP laser printer hooked up to it. I also have a Brother
Multifunction Copier (Printer, Fax, Copy) that prints in color.

Is there anyway to hook up these two and manually select which
printer I want the job to be sent (and not just in Word)? I've
seen those printer switches, but it didn't work too well the last
time I used one.

Thanks

 

[Green Man]

You could add a parallel I/O card like one of These

 

[LiLithTecH]

Why not just use the onboard parrallel port?

 

[Askalon]

I would assume: 1) you have a home network LAN and 2)you want to use more than one PC to print to these?

if you do not have 1 & 2, then really i do not see why you would need this post at all.

If you have 1 but not 2, then why not hook it up directly to the PC in question (unless it is for convienece, hard to lug around a printer with your Laptop. Or you just don't have room close to the PC to do it).

As you already have the Laser hooked up to the router, then you can :

1) Hook the brother up to another machine and share it from there.
2) Buy a print server (I have one for sale) to hook to your lan. (recommended)
3) Buy an Internal network card for your HP Laser printer (if possible, recommended)
4) Buy a printer switch box (not recommended for Laser printers)
5) Manually swap whenever you want to change printers.

hope this helps

 

[axelfox]

If I buy another print server, can I select which printer to print to manually?