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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 03:56:15 GMT, SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com>
wrote:
>I have an old HP LJIII that I want to put on the network, without
>attaching it to a PC.
Gaaag. I have about 5 of those piled in the office closet and a huge
mess of HPII, III, and IIP parts. I used to repair those. You can
keep them running forever but they sure are big, slow, and ugly.
>Any recomendations for print servers with a parallel port?
First, don't get a Jetdirect card for the HPIII. They were buggy
pieces of junk that require a bootp server to run. Stay with the
parallel port.
I find it easier to do such things in two boxes. An ethernet print
server and some wireless ethernet bridge client radio. The ethernet
print server can be anything. I have a small pile of Digi/Milan print
servers and Netgear PS104/PS110 print servers I use as needed. It
really doesn't matter which print server you select as anything will
work.
The client bridge is a bit tricky. If all you want is to remote the
one printer, then a WAP11, DWL900AP+ or similar single MAC address
wireless bridge will work. However, I usually setup a client computer
nearby and want to bridge more than one MAC address. That requires a
wireless bridge that can do more than one MAC, such as WET11,
WAP54G(?), or WRT54G with Sveasoft firmware running in client mode.
Some game adapters will also work with multiple MAC addresses. You
can also do the same thing with a WDS bridge (WRT54G) and get a
wireless repeater function for free.
For protocols, I use either direct print to an IP socket, LPD/LPR, or
Netbios (Windoze) printing. Whatever is supported by the print
server.
Incidentally, one nice feature of some of the print servers in my pile
is mutliple parallel or serial printer ports. You can run multiple
printers from a single cable or wireless link.
>I'm seeing the Motorola print server in a lot of places, i.e.
>http://shentech.com/mowpprse80rj.html. Anyone have any experience with it?
No experience, but the price, features, and specs look nice. If you
have to buy something, it's probably cheaper to buy the Motorola box
than to build it yourself.
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