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by horrorshow247

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I have a usb label maker that a client wants on her network. This is suspose to work with a specific program that they use and is a very volitle program. She wants all the people in her office to have access to this label maker from their computer. She has the USB label maker pluged into her computer. We are running a terminal server for the particular network. When installing the software on the terminal I had to plug the USB label maker into the server to complete the installation. Now when someone wants to print off the label maker, it puts the job in queue because it is not plugged into the usb slot on the server. NOW is it AT ALL possible for a usb device with no networking capibility, to be used as a shared printer. I am saying NO, but please prove me wrong.

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by mikelazz

It is definitely possible to do. If there are less than 10 users:

First you need to share out the label printer from the machine it is attached to. Connect to the shared printer on the TS. Right click on the original printer that was created on the TS and go to properties. In the Ports tab find the shared port and check off the shared port. That'll redirect the printing to shared out printer.

If there are more than 10 users, you will need to purchase a USB print server. One that I have had luck with is made by Linksys and is about 40 bucks. Check the label printer's site to make sure that it can be attached to a printer server. We have had issues with our label printers and differernt manufacturer's USB print servers.

by dr dij

I have an SLP and quite a while back could not share it. Their tech support said it could not be shared, they did that to sell more printers. Avery makes one also. Also I think one had a more expensive version that could be shared. have you perused their website or asked their tech support?

by jdclyde

They make a product that CAN'T be shared over the network because they want more printers out there, hopefully not the same model, so your having an inventory of MANY ink cartages, which is where all the money is at.

Call the vendor.

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