Any Vulnerability Associated with Sharing single printer?

From: Reza Ghaffari (reza.ghaffari@auatac.com)
Date: 09/11/02 

From: "Reza Ghaffari" <reza.ghaffari@auatac.com>
To: <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:45:16 -0400

Does any one know if there is any risk associated with allowing two
different users share a printer on printer's separate ports? One will be
using its serial port and the other one will be using its parallel port.
Thank you.

(BTW, Printer model is a HP 2250TN or HP 2280TN)

Regards,

Reza Ghaffari

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