Two network printers connected to one PC

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I'd like some insight as to how I would go about connecting two network printers to one computer. At the moment, when we want to print from one of the printers we need to pull the network cable out of the one and plug it into the other. I've got a 4 port hub. The network settings of these printers are

Printer 1:
I.P Address: 10.0.0.213
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.0.0.2

Printer 2:
I.P Address: 192.168.0.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: EMPTY

Should I change the settings on one of the printers? If yes, which one?
 
Your printers are on different subnets, so you'd need a gateway router between the two nets or to multi-home the pc so that it can access both nets; then you can add the printers to the pc.
 
Or just put both printers onto the same subnets and ip range.
 
AstroTurf said:
Or just put both printers onto the same subnets and ip range.
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That would be the simplest. Even easier if they were both set to DHCP and then requested IPs, assuming you have router that would allow that.
 
Fudzy said:
That would be the simplest. Even easier if they were both set to DHCP and then requested IPs, assuming you have router that would allow that.
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If using printers host names on the clients to print it can work ok like that. But if using the printers ip addresses and there is no reservations for them on the dhcp server - when/if new leases are assigned, the clients have to be updated manually (major ball ache).

Best to stick with static ip's outside the dhcp scope for network printers IMHO...
 
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