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by **Walter William** » Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:38:39

Greetings all

I am looking into a way to make my two printers available on my little
LAN. I am looking into possibility of purchasing one of these small
LAN print servers off of Ebay. The one I am looking at is a Guslink
because of its Unix telnet setup utility. Does anyone use these types of
servers? How good are they? Or are they more trouble than they are
worth? The other thing I could do is make use of a couple LPT cards and
an old 486 that I have and try doing something with that. (The only
thing is is that I am limited on space.)

I am not sure which is the most economical thing to do. It would seem
that most printers are migrating to USB. Is there going to be a LAN
print server with USB on the market in the future? Does anyone have any
ideas where this is heading?
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Thanks
Walter L. Williams

by **Bill Silverstei** » Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:27:41

>Greetings all

>I am looking into a way to make my two printers available on my little
>LAN. I am looking into possibility of purchasing one of these small
>LAN print servers off of Ebay. The one I am looking at is a Guslink
>because of its Unix telnet setup utility. Does anyone use these types of
>servers? How good are they? Or are they more trouble than they are
>worth? The other thing I could do is make use of a couple LPT cards and
>an old 486 that I have and try doing something with that. (The only
>thing is is that I am limited on space.)

>I am not sure which is the most economical thing to do. It would seem
>that most printers are migrating to USB. Is there going to be a LAN
>print server with USB on the market in the future? Does anyone have any
>ideas where this is heading?
>--

>Thanks
>Walter L. Williams

I use the NetPrint 1000 which I have some extras. They have a web based
configuration (once you set the IP address).

You can get more information at
http://www.sorehands.com/products/osicom.htm

by **James Knot** » Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:37:19

> Greetings all

> I am looking into a way to make my two printers available on my little
> LAN. I am looking into possibility of purchasing one of these small
> LAN print servers off of Ebay. The one I am looking at is a Guslink
> because of its Unix telnet setup utility. Does anyone use these types
> of servers? How good are they? Or are they more trouble than they are
> worth? The other thing I could do is make use of a couple LPT cards
> and an old 486 that I have and try doing something with that. (The
> only
> thing is is that I am limited on space.)

Those print servers do work, but are a bit expensive. Some of those
firewall boxes have a print server. Also, any networked computer can
share it's printer.

Quote:
> I am not sure which is the most economical thing to do. It would seem
> that most printers are migrating to USB. Is there going to be a LAN
> print server with USB on the market in the future? Does anyone have
> any ideas where this is heading?

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james.knott.

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Who uses LAN Print Servers ????????

Who uses LAN Print Servers ????????

Who uses LAN Print Servers ????????

Who uses LAN Print Servers ????????