HinkleGameTech Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'm trying to figure out how to get multiple printers to print from a single cue. The setup would just be that the computer has two USB printers plugged into it, and there's no problem getting multiple printers set up in Windows XP, but when this application goes to print it will only print to a single printer of course.What I'm imagining I'd like to be able to do is install some kind of fake "printer" driver which would itself just divide up and redirect pages to be printed to the actual printers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Did you try a Google searchThis is the resultGoogle is your friend.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 how to get multiple printers to print from a single cue.Well, personally that seems to have me snookered ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Well, personally that seems to have me snookered !I like that - fancy you of all people getting snookered. Perhaps you are more suited to crown green bowls...... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HinkleGameTech Posted April 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Most of these that I look at talk about broadcasting the print job to multiple printers, and that's not exactly what I'm trying to do. I'm not done reading through on all of these yet either, but what I'm trying to do is end up with a single copy of each page being printed, but multiple printers doing the printing. These (so far) read that they will print page one from each printer, and page two from each printer, etc., but what I need is page one from one printer, page two from a second printer, page three from the first printer again, etc. Does that sound like something that these can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Most of these that I look at talk about broadcasting the print job to multiple printers, and that's not exactly what I'm trying to do. I'm not done reading through on all of these yet either, but what I'm trying to do is end up with a single copy of each page being printed, but multiple printers doing the printing. These (so far) read that they will print page one from each printer, and page two from each printer, etc., but what I need is page one from one printer, page two from a second printer, page three from the first printer again, etc. Does that sound like something that these can do?No - your requirement is so rare & unusual that it is highly unlikely that anyone has invested time and money devising such software.Using standard printer software, you could do a print run on Printer 1 selecting just "Odd pages" and do a second print run on Printer 2 selecting just "Even" pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HinkleGameTech Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 No - your requirement is so rare & unusual that it is highly unlikely that anyone has invested time and money devising such software.Using standard printer software, you could do a print run on Printer 1 selecting just "Odd pages" and do a second print run on Printer 2 selecting just "Even" pages.I don't even have that as an option. This printing is done as the very last step of this software running (it prints individual results/score pages for each player in a game), and setting up the printer is done in a separate application, and there's no telling anything even/odd pages or multiple printers or anything like that. I was needing to find some utility that would show up in "Printers and Faxes" that I could aim the software at as a "printer" that would itself be able to distribute the various pages between the actual printers. But... seemingly not likely.I'm sure it's entirely do-able, it's just a matter of someone having wanted/needed this done before, and so far it doesn't seem like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I'm sure it's entirely do-able, it's just a matter of someone having wanted/needed this done before, and so far it doesn't seem like it.I agree; it's certainly feasible, so here is your chance to write it for your own benefit. And who knows, once the software exists, maybe there is even a market for it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I posted the first reply to this thread but, when Alan also replied with a different viewpoint, I thought I had misunderstood the problem so I deleted my effort.I now appears that I had not misunderstood. My original response was:I would expect this to be technically feasible but I'm doubtful that there's any commercial software to achieve it as I imagine the demand would not be sufficient to justify the development costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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