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144346 2003-05-15 05:11:00 Can anyone tell me if in practical terms the speed of a USB Printer is incresed by a computer supporting USB2 as compared to a computer supporting USB1.
Thanks
McLeod (3782)
144347 2003-05-15 05:18:00 In a nutshell:

Nope!

Quite simply the speed of a printer will always be printing at lower speeds than USB 1.x can push the data through :-)

Cheers


Chill.
Chilling_Silently (228)
144348 2003-05-15 06:17:00 Thanks McLeod (3782)
144349 2003-05-15 10:29:00 It depends on whether the printer is USB 2.0 compatible. mikebartnz (21)
144350 2003-05-15 10:32:00 I think what Chill means, is that the printer cannot physically print faster, than the info coming into it by the USB port. Pheonix (280)
144351 2003-05-15 10:39:00 UNLESS (just to conntradic everyone ;-) ) you have large amounts of USB devices that are chewing up all the usb's bandwidth then going to usb2 could help. tweak'e (174)
144352 2003-05-15 11:16:00 Well, If you're gonna buy a 4 way adapter for USB, then you'll suffer the consequences of going the cheap way with it...

:-)
Chilling_Silently (228)
144353 2003-05-15 23:24:00 Thank you everyone.
I have purchased a USB2 printer, and was just trying to find out if when purchasing a new computer, which I intend to do, it is necessary to purchase a printer with USB2 support. The one I am looking at at present supports USB1.
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