Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Nice way for 5 PCs to share a printer? Keywords: serial ports, Printer sharing Message-ID: <367@optilink.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 88 16:57:38 GMT References: <25650@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 12 In article <25650@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, davidg@janus.berkeley.edu (David Gaertner) writes: > Does anybody know of a nice, simple, and inexpensive way to hook 5 PCs > to a laser printer? I thought of TOPS using just NetPrint, but there > must be a cheaper solution. The computers are in different offices, so > something that uses the parallel ports probably wouldn't do it. > > David Gaertner It's crude, but it's also cheap and it works. Get a buffer box with 5 input serial ports, or two of the 4 input buffer boxes feeding into a third buffer box. Clayton E. Cramer