[NTLUG:Discuss] USB printer?

[Robert Pearson]

On 6/23/06, Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:48:15PM -0500, steve wrote:
> > How well are these various options supported in SuSE 9.3 ?
> >
> > (If all else faile, I can move the printer onto my firewall
> > machine and use remote printing - but that's running some
> > incredibly ancient version of Linux and has been stripped of
> > all non-essential software - so making this work would be a
> > considerable time-burden that I really don't want to face!)
> Do that.  BUT.  set up the printer as RAW on the firewall.  Then all
> the complex stuff happens on the SuSE box.
>
> OR.  Get an old jet direct box and make it a networked printer.  Most
> HPs behave very well on the other side of a jet direct.

All good solutions.
Another solution in the $50-$70 range is a Mini Print Server like the
Netgear Model PS101:
<<http://www.netgear.com/products/details/PS101.php>>
This little Netgear guy has a parallel port on one side and a network
port on the other. It plugs right on to the parallel port of your printer.
For a little more money you can get a Wireless print server. If you
are running Wireless. D-Link, Linksys and Netgear all make these.

I, personally, use a networked Linksys because Linksys makes one
with three parallel ports. All my printers are very old.
The new printer is USB only. The times they are a-changin!