USB sharing device to get ink levels

[ScottReeve]

I suspect that someone else has tried this, any comments on whether it
will work?


Use a USB sharing device to "expand" a USB port on a printer to two
ports

hook one of them to a print server and the other directly into the
computer.

Make the computer think there are two printers, even though it's the
same printer.

The direct-connect USB will enable the PC to get the ink levels

Other PCs can print to the printer because it's also connected on the
print server.

TIA,

Scott

 

[Gary Tait]

I suspect that someone else has tried this, any comments on whether it
will work?


Use a USB sharing device to "expand" a USB port on a printer to two
ports

Unless I am wrong, there is no such thing, except perhaps manual or semi
automatic A/B switch.

 

[ScottReeve]

Unless I am wrong, there is no such thing, except perhaps manual or semi
automatic A/B switch.

This is the type of device I was thinking of:

http://tinyurl.com/y2ddt6