topic Re: Wireless Printer in Installation & update

Wireless Printer

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:11:05 GMT

Hi,

Does anybody know of a wireless printer? I am currenty using a HP Designjet 500 A1 printer but would prefer to not have to have the server on to run it. I would also like to keep the printer further away from me.

I have a smaller A4 wireless Brother printer which is nice to use but I am considering a larger format printer for my drawing printing with wireless connectivity....up to A1 or B1.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Regards,

Re: Wireless Printer

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:38:16 GMT

Hi,

Been wondering about this too, don't know of a printer but a wireless print switch might be the next best thing.

You can get them with up to 4 usb ports into which you plug your printers/multifunction machines so you could group your printers and/or scanner someplace handy, maybe the room next door, and send the prints by wireless to them.

Of course the printers will still make garbage out of the critical print as usual, you just won't be able to see them doing it till it's too late

There's always a catch.

Regards

Chris Dennehy

Re: Wireless Printer

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:11:08 GMT

I am using an Apple Airport Base Station with the 500 without problems.

Re: Wireless Printer

Anonymous — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:12:49 GMT

Hi,

The problem with the Apple Airport Base Station is that it has only one usb port and is considerably more expensive, Euro 169 as against Euro 107 for example, for a D-Link print server which has 4 usb ports allowing you to connect your other printers, multifunction printer and scanner etc before you have to go to a hub. Apple seems to have a thing about not including enough usb ports on their equipment, there are 3 on my iMac which now has 2 hubs hanging off it. A quick glance through available Windows motherboards indicates that most of them have between 8 and 12 usb ports.

Regards

Chris Dennehy

Re: Wireless Printer

Thomas Holm — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:22:27 GMT

My experience with D-Link is they last for 2 years. max 3. Then buy again. This goes for a number of consecutive routers, modems, switches and whatever, that I was lured to buy because of the low price tag. I thought it was just a coincidence, until it happened the third or fourth or so time. Never again.

Netgear is better, but Apple's equipment typically lasts so long you'll want it to break, or to retire it for other reasons, like too old/slow/obsolete or whatever. No luck. It just works.

That may have something to do with the price.

Re: Wireless Printer

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:30:49 GMT

My Airport Extreme Base Station has been continually on for the las 5 years. AFAIK you can connect USB hubs to the new ones.

Re: Wireless Printer

Dwight — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:46:26 GMT

Thomas wrote:
Apple's equipment typically lasts so long…
That may have something to do with the price.

And it is nice to see that quality might actually win out for once, unlike betamax/vhs and others.

Re: Wireless Printer

Anonymous — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:37:21 GMT

Thanks for the info. So the wireless network switch gets plugged into a power outlet, plugs into the printer, picks up the wirelessly transmitted print file and prints. Sounds excellent. I think the range is good on the apple airport base station....about 30m from memory?

Cheers,