[sdjes]

I just picked up one of those printer/scanner Canon usb printers. I
would like to place the printer on my home network and perhaps
hopefully print using my airport (B) Ibook and from a PC laptop with
a wireless card. I am currently using a Network Anywhere wireless
router that never let me print wirelessly (to a apple laserwriter) before because from what I
read, it doesn't support AppleTalk.
Anyone have any ideas, is it possible with a print server? Does it
have to be OS X compliant? Does it still rely on the wireless router? I've also got one of those HP Jetdirect devices, do they only work with HP printers?
Thank you in advance.
Shawn

[Tom_Diola]

Which machine is the printer going to be plugged into? Hopefully a Macintosh machine?

[sdjes]

The idea was to plug it into the wireless router so that eveyone can print. Is this possible with a usb printer?
Thanks much!

[Falstaff]

I have an HP PSC 1600 series (print, scan, copy) plugged directly into my AirPort Express Base Station's USB port. I use to print wirelessly from my G5 tower and Dell PC laptop I use at work. When I log onto my home wireless network, the printer is automatically detected and I can send print jobs right to the printer.

[Tom_Diola]

Given enough time and money anything is possible. You're better off plugging the USB printer into the Macintosh and then printing through the Macintosh printer queue from the PCee. . .

[sturner0430]

Yes it is. A wireless print server is made by several companies, Linksys and D-Link being two of them. They usually also have a connection port on them too. I used a D-Link with my old Epson Inkjet and it worked very well. My experience with the HP Inkjets indicate that HP makes them so that they won't recognize anyone elses printer servers. I don't have any reason to believe that Cannon would be so limited.

[gsahli]

You will find that TomDiola's idea is easiest and cheapest.
Sorry if this is info overload...
Standard print protocols (including those that print via print server) in OS X are provided by CUPS, the open source print control system. There are two programming interfaces for drivers on OS X - CUPS and Carbon (an OS 9 legacy system). So far, among manufacturers, only Brother has provided drivers that work completely through CUPS. All the other drivers (including Canon's) use Carbon. In the Carbon drivers, the programmer specifies which comm protocol to use. Your Canon driver was written to ONLY use USB.
For printing via print server, you need to find a network-capable (CUPS) driver. For most Canons:
www.printfab.net