Hi all,
For y'all that work with BOCA printers, has anyone connected two workstations to one BOCA? If so, how (well) did it work?
We're looking to print some membership cards, but currently have only one BOCA that uses the paper quality we want.
Hi!We do this all the time! I think some of it depends on whether you share via ethernet or usb - we had a ethernet share that pooped out and I haven't been able to (bothered to?) figure out why. I just set it up as a usb share and it's been absolutely fine!
Same as with Kathleen. Most of our Bocas are set up as network printers and every workstation can print to each printer. Extremely useful as we have multiple buildings, so one can actually even take an order for a performance in the other building over the phone and just print the tickets out to one of the printers over there and shoot the employees a message about the tickets coming out. We also have two different types of ticket stock we use so this allows our staff to go back and forth quite easily between the two.
John A. Moskal II
Thanks to you both! I've never done a USB share of a BOCA before. Any tips/tricks for making that work?
No idea. We always do ethernet shares. The printers are all set up on our network server and then given a dedicated internal IP (e.g. 10.14.3.25) and connected by ethernet. Then we just add the printer to each station like any normal printer.
This is how all of ours are shared. You share it like any other Windows shared printer, and let it list in the directory. Then when you map it from the other PC, you should be able to find it in the directory. If not, just make sure network discovery is on, and you can find it with a mapping of \\pcname\generic text only (where pcname is the PC that has the Boca physically connected). Every once in awhile, the PCs lose their little minds and you have to re-map, but mostly it just works.