Local printer in events industry

Hi everyone.

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I work in the event sector putting printers out for conferences among other things.

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I tend to put out a printer connected to a switch so that a few PCs in an area can print to it.

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However it's becoming more often that the PCs that they want to print to are on their own business VPN

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So plugging up it would go

1 - Cable from venue to unmanaged switch

2 - Cables from switch to PCs

3 - Cable from switch to Printer

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So when I set the printer to DHCP it gets the IP address from the venue (obviously).

And obviously their PCs get a DHCP address from the venue

But when they turn on their VPN and tunnel back to their offices, it doesn't talk to the local network any more.

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The obvious way around it (to me) is to everytime they want to print they have to disconnect from their VPN to print locally but that isn't very efficient.

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Is there a way to route the printer packets before it gets to the vpn, to go to the local network, rather than to the vpn?

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Thanks in advance!