[Wolves] Sharing a printer without a computer

[Ron Wellsted]

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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Ron Wellsted wrote:

> 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).
>
Just realised this will not solve the printer driver problem.  What 
printer is it? You might do better to scrap it and get a printer that is 
supported.  You might recover the cost within 12 months on the 
consumables.

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