Re: OT ? Printer Connectivity Issue

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Gareth,

I went through this exact excercise a month or 2 ago.

The upshot is that there basically isn't anything thats either effective or
economic....

There are a very few USB-Ethernet print servers out there, but they're not
cheap, and the killer was that it turned out to be highly unlikely that
they'd suport any features other than printing, thus negating the benefit
oh
having a multifunction device!

What I did in the end was to get a USB 2-port manual switch from M**lins,
with the inention that I'll manually switch the multifunction printer
between the two PC's as needed (which actually shouldn't be very often). -
the old Epson printer will still be available on the LAN via the jetdirect,
and my PC is on most of the time anyway, and I'll share it out from there,
so it won't be that often that I'll need to directly connect it to SWMBO's
PC...

Paul G.



>From: Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] OT ? Printer Connectivity Issue
>Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:01:29 +0100
>
>Chaps
>
>I'll be buggered if I can find one - I currently have a parallel
printer
>connected to a HP JetDirect Print Server - but now want to replace with
an
>all in one printer which only has USB !
>
>Anyone seen a converter to go from USB Printer to Parallel port ? Not
the
>other way around ??
>
>Stopped at the last hurdle it seems...
>
>G.
>
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