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I just recently bought a photo printer and would like to share this printer with 2 other laptops other than mine. I'm using my MBP (10.4.10) and the other two are WinXP. I currently have a Netgear wireless router installed. I was told and/or read that I can use a wired/wireless print server to get this done. Can someone please recommend a cheap wired/wireless print server and how should I go on setting this up? Thank you.
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 05:18 PM
It's a lot more complicated than that. There are driver issues for every non-postscript printer that wasn't made for other than USB connection. On the other hand, Apple's Airport Express was made to get around those issues, by implementing USB port redirection (USB outpout gets sent to the Express USB port via software). But I hesitate to recommend the Express, because 1 out of 5 printers don't work with it.
Can you tell us the printer model?
Can you tell us the printer model?
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Posted 17 September 2007 - 10:45 PM
The best bet would have been to buy a printer with an ethernet connection. Since you didn't you could try a print server box connected to your router. This one looks like it would do the trick.
http://www.dlink.com.../?sec=0&pid=165
http://www.dlink.com.../?sec=0&pid=165
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Posted 18 September 2007 - 02:55 PM
I actually got it figured out. I bought a Linksys wireless print server to get it all done. It's a little confusing and it doesn't have a cd wizard for mac. The printer I installed is a Canon Pixma iP6700D. Everything is all set. I was leaning to getting a Airport Extreme base but it's just too pricey to have that. Thank you for all your input. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Posted 18 September 2007 - 08:05 PM
Glad to hear you have it solved. Always a great feeling when everything works the way it should!
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Posted 26 September 2007 - 09:11 AM
I know you have your solution, though for others with the same problem Keyspan has a USB print server. It connects up to 4 devices to your wired ethernet lan. It works fairly well. It's more of a redirector than a printer server but it works nicely. Belkin has a device that is similar, though it hasn't worked for me.
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Posted 07 October 2007 - 08:34 PM
The only thing I noticed when I have my printer connected to the wireless print server is that if I print pictures using my Macbook Pro, the quality sucks big time. Also, when printing text-only documents (for example an email from Yahoo or directions from MapQuest), it only prints part of the document - meaning sometimes only the top half will be printed and the rest are not. Has anyone figured out a way to fix this?
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