Identical Printer Issue

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Ira

I have two HP 7310 Printers; one for Home and the other for my office.
I use a Sony Laptop. I bought identical printers so that when I plug my

laptop in either place, I would not have to select a new default
printer each time.


For some reason, even though the printers are identical, Windows thinks

they are two different printers and creates two entries in my printers
setup. The second one gets named with the (copy 2) extension.


Is there a way to get windows to think they are the same printer or use

some utility that can self-detect which printer is online?


Thanks,


Ira
 
I think this is a flaw of the Windows printing implementation. In order
to differentiate between identical printers connected to the same bus
(in this case USB) it must have separate drivers for each one. The
printers report a unique ID to the driver.

I suspect you wouldn't see this with Unix, or with a non-bus type
printer interface.
 
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