[Wolves] Sharing a printer without a computer

[Wayne Morris]

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?
>   
Yes you want a HP Jetdirect (or a similar make) like this one
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HP-JetDirect-EX-Plus-Network-Print-Server-J2591A_W0QQitemZ9707562070QQcategoryZ108998QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
currently £7.50


> 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.
>
>   
Err, not sure how you handle this - I know when used one years ago my 
Linux boxes talked to the Jetdirect, but then again
it was plugged into a HP printer - for which drivers would have been 
available

This might be useful, should be able to print directly to it as a 
postscript printer
http://www.willempen.org/network-printer/
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