I haven’t done that in the past because I couldn’t get one printer working, let alone two. I previously had a hub connected to the AEBS, but to troubleshoot my printer issues I pulled it out to keep things as simple as possible to get it working. Now that it is, I may put the hub back to see if I can use my external drive. I want to make sure it works with a direct connection first, however.

Have you tried attaching a usb hub to the aebs so you can attach more than one printer? Also, you attach to the hub a usb external harddrive and the printes at the same time.