Eminent 4 Port Manual USB Switch

Eminent 4 Port Manual USB Switch
Took me ages to find this switch and it works. Reasonable price too.
Pros:
- Direct connections, so unlike most wireless ports you can work your printer as if it were connected properly (wireless multi ports won't get the info from your printer about ink levels, settings etc, but more importantly can't work the scan function!!)
- No drivers so can use on any computer
- Still working, no issues after a year
Cons:
- Only one out port - it would be great to find a unit with multi in and out ports but there is nothing that I can find that either works as well as this or is anywhere near as cheap, so oeverall this is the best.
A happy office!
Having bought a new printer, we then found that it would not connect to our two office computers. (The old printer had USB and parallel connectors, so we used one to each computer. However the new printer only had the one USB connector)
But this switch solved the problem!

Flegg
Eminent Printer Switch
Belkin could not provide a driver for their printer switch when I updated from XP Home to Windows 7 64bit. It seems inconceivable but there - certainly will not buy any more of their products. Probably a short job to write a patch and keep existing customers happy.

The Eminent is a manual switch for four PC's and worked straight out of the box. Much simpler and quicker for my wife (and me) to simply press the button for PC no. 2. It is a bit light and a screw mounting hole on the rear of the case would have made it more physically manageable to hang somewhere out of the way. The weight of the cables drag it off the shelf where I had to put it.

Had to wade through the reviews to find someone who said it worked with Windows 7 before buying.

It might be useful if the specs contained reference to working with 64bit Window OS.

Would definately buy this again. First rate service from Amazon again!!

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