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Anyone used one of those 802.11b Printer Server gizmos?

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jasonja

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I want to share my Brother 1440 Laser on the network (without my machine involved). I've been checking out the Dlink USB 802.11b Print Server thing but wonder how well these work. Do they provide all the "USB" feedback properly to the printer drivers and work transparently or are they prone to printer incompatibilities?

If anyone has the Brother and a gizmo that works with it let me know.

Thanks.
 
I have that exact printer networked on an old SMC router. The router was one of those broadband sharing gizmos which had a parallel port on the back. Printing is done via either "UNIX printer support" in winxp or an included driver. It works with Linux as well. If the printer works fine in this configuration, it would likely work fine on a wireles print server via parallel. I don't know how well the USB connection will work since I have not tried it. Why not just use parallel?

Good luck.
 
I've used SMC and am currently using D-Link's print server that's built into the router. I don't forsee any incompatibility as you set your client OS to print to a local IP address. I've actually never tried the "extra" features that a printer may have. None of my printers ever had any of those features...
 
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