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

[Phil Shirley]

Thanks to all who've replied - someone is sending me one. :-)

Phil Shirley wrote:
> 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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