[Wolves] Sharing a printer without a computer

[Ron Wellsted]

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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Stuart Langridge wrote:

> Is it possible to buy a small device that I can plug into my
> (parallel) printer and plug into the network, to allow all my
> computers (Windows and Linux) to print to that printer over the
> network? At the moment the printer is connected to a (Windows)
> computer, and that computer shares the printer with SMB -- I'd like to
> not have a big computer do that but instead have a tiny box do it. Is
> this possible?
>
> As an extra wrinkle...the printer does not have Linux drivers. I'm
> sharing it to Linux machines by having the Windows box export it as a
> PostScript printer and then print to it using GhostScript.
>

Yes, the device you need is a network print server.  A single printer 
device (about the size of a fag packet) should cost about GBP 30-40. 
Checkout D-link (DP-101 I think) and Netgear (PS-100, again from memory).

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Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
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