[OPLINTECH] Can you loan or give us a parallel printer switch box?

[Phil Shirley]

Short version: Does anyone have one of those old switch boxes that plug 
into the parallel port of a pc and allow you to connect two parallel 
printers that you could loan or give to us (via the statewide delivery 
system)?

Why I want one: My deputy clerk-treasurer has asked me if I can set up a 
second dot-matrix printer on her PC so she can easily print on two kinds 
of paper from her CMI finance software, and she wants it now for her 
end-of-year work. Right now she's changing the paper each time, and the 
nature of the work is such that she needs to be able to switch back and 
forth (can't do all of this kind now and all of the other kind later). 
Because these printers have to be set up in the CMI software, which I 
believe CMI staff would have to do (for a charge I assume), I can't just 
have her connect to a shared dot matrix printer on some other computer 
(we do have a couple of old dot matrix printers that work). Printing 
both kinds of reports on the same paper (not switching printers) is not 
an option.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Phil
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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