[X Newbies] Sharing a usb printer between 2 macs

[John Erdman]

I've never heard of a "splitter" option for USB maybe others have.


The simplest way of course would be to move the USB wire to the printer 
back in forth between the computers.

To get a little more sophisticated you could create a small 2-computer 
ethernet. You could simply connect the two computers with an Ethernet 
cable and have one computers be the host connected to the printer via 
USB wire.  But you need special drivers to do this. My Canon and Epson 
printers came wiith drivers to handle this arrangement.  See the Apple 
Knowledge Base for exact instruction for doing this setup.

If the Samsung has an ethernet port then the easiest would be to 
connect it to the Ethernet too.

John
Peaks Island

> Is there a way to share a Samsung ML1210 printer with a G4 and an 
> iBook?
> Ibook is on system 10.3.2 and G4 still on system 9
>
>
> Isn't a 2 port USB splitter available so that one could run usb cables 
> from
> each device to the splitter? Something like a "usb network"?
>
> Regards
> Gen