Is it okay to have 2 printer drivers installed?

[Comp625]

I have an HP Deskjet 932c at home and I plan on buying a Canon i850 for my dorm room. I'm going to be transporting my laptop to both home and my dorm alot...so is it okay to have 2 printer drivers installed or are they going to conflict?

 

[lsman]

why not?

in corp environment, tons (i got 3) of network printer installed.

my home computer has a canon (local) and a Lexmark (network) installed no problem.

 

[Comp625]

Cool that's what I thought. Just wanted to make sure.

 

[Comp625]

1 more question...what about having 2 printers plugged in at the same time (both via USB). It should be fine too, right?

 

[Codewiz]

You will be fine. Just remember to pick the correct printer depending on where you are. I have a laptop that I take from work to home. I have 3 work printers installed and 2 home printers installed.

 

[LED]

Running 3 Printers (Canon, Samsung, Alps)here (sometimes 4) plus 2 virtuals with no problems...it'll work.

Edit= Sometimes USB Hubs are not friendly for Printers and Scanners

 

[Peter]

Yes, no problem in doing that. The only situation where you'd have to be careful is when you keep changing legacy, non-plug-and-play printers on the same physical port.
With PnP-enabled printers and particularly USB printers (which are PnP inherently), you can't do wrong.
All you need to do is pick an actually connected printer when printing something.

 

[pkananen]

At the store, you should see how many drivers the epson rep has on his laptop...one for every epson printer.