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| Thread ID: 49187 | 2004-09-12 07:39:00 | Wireless printing | Wilky (776) | Press F1 |
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| 271574 | 2004-09-12 09:34:00 | Damn the no edit feature! Sorry for the huge amount of posts in a row. Here's the diagram. zygar.co.nz |
Wilky (776) | ||
| 271575 | 2004-09-12 09:57:00 | > Let me see, no wifi, no bluetooth. But you want > wireless. > You have excluded the available options so I simply > do not see how you can do it. Apart from using wires > as above. I agree. I'd be inclined to go for a print server. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 271576 | 2004-09-12 10:50:00 | The HP jetdirect USB printserver is $468. Still looks like an expensive solution. If you chose a generic solution (such as the DSE Cat XH7601) it would only be about $123 trade price. You would need to test it for compatability though. Not all printers will work with print servers. The bluetooth solution would be pushing it for range as well I suspect. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 271577 | 2004-09-12 11:03:00 | >Damn PressF1's lack of an edit feature.... Seems Ok to me. What's the difficulty? Click Preview box (next to the Post Message box) If you don't like it click the Back/Edit box and change your entries. ?:| ?:| ?:| ?:| ?:| ?:| |
rugila (214) | ||
| 271578 | 2004-09-12 11:24:00 | When I wanted wireless printing some months back I tried the DSE wireless print server. It worked well with an old epson 670 printer but not at all with a new Epson CX5300 multifunction. A phone call to Epson indicated they (at least NZ branch) had little interest in wireless printing for their machines. Bluetooth is too short range I think. I wanted to print from two fairly widely separated (20 meters through walls etc). computers using the same printer. The best solution I came up with (maybe cheapest too) was to in effect build my own wireless print server. That just involved buying a small case and PSU, 256mb ram, using a Athlon XP2000+ I already had lying around and a Linksys router as a wap (sometimes) and sometimes a DSE USB wireless stick. (I also has a Zyxel one which was a disaster and still needs sorting out with Zyxel, whose North American branch are taking a pretty bizarre attitude to the situation - but thtats too much digressing). Anyway I originally used an old IBM 1.2GB HDD in the setup, but then reconsidered and splashed out on a Seagate 160GB. Now I not only have a very satisfactory, functional and efficient wireless print server but it also doubles as an excellent backup storage device and a spare computer. Don't need another monitor since VNC software does the job excellently over the wireless link. All up cost was well under $500. Any help for your situation? Probably not. But that setup I'm finding really good. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 271579 | 2004-09-12 11:46:00 | As an addendum to the above post I should add that setup works with any printer (whether Epson NZ or anyone else likes it or not). All one has to do is load the appropriate drivers into the print server/computer, and in fact one can use more than one printer. I do this with two printers, with the only problem that WinXP insists on trying to load drivers for the Epson 670 that I just don't want (mainly coz they don't work - although the one I get from the Epson website and which XP complains about as being uncertified or similar blah works just fine.). |
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