- Mar 17, 2016
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I just joined the forum and feel pretty silly asking this question, but I can get a straight answer anywhere. So, currently me and my wife shared a home office together. Both of our desks are in between a printer and scanner that we both use. The printer is a thermal printer (Zebra 505) that connects from the B jack on the back of it to an open USB port on my desktop tower. Once it's up and running, I can share it with her across the network and she can send jobs to it. The Epson scanner (GT 1500) is also connected to my PC but I can not share the scanner like I can share a printer.
My question is, if I unplug either USB cord from the back of my computer into her desktop, her computer immediately recognizes each new device and attempts to download drivers and enable it. It's as simple as "plug 'n play".
That being said, do they make a special printer cable (like a Y cable) with 2 male USB extensions that would allow me to plug one of the USB extended cables into the back of my desktop and the other extended USB cable into hers? The other end, would be a B jack that goes directly into the device. If the printer can communicate with both desktops, then both PCs would use the printer even if my desktop isn't on and unable to share the device.
This seems like a very simple request and I have looked everywhere with no answer.
My question is, if I unplug either USB cord from the back of my computer into her desktop, her computer immediately recognizes each new device and attempts to download drivers and enable it. It's as simple as "plug 'n play".
That being said, do they make a special printer cable (like a Y cable) with 2 male USB extensions that would allow me to plug one of the USB extended cables into the back of my desktop and the other extended USB cable into hers? The other end, would be a B jack that goes directly into the device. If the printer can communicate with both desktops, then both PCs would use the printer even if my desktop isn't on and unable to share the device.
This seems like a very simple request and I have looked everywhere with no answer.
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