Make your own Print Server?

[Jon Lai]

I just bought a new Canon All-in-one, and all it has is a USB2.0 interface, which won't work with an old parallel print server I have. I'm looking forward to hooking this up to my recently-bought WRT54G... and I happen to have a USB ethernet adapter (changes USB to ethernet). Does anyone know if I could hook the printer up directly to the router through this USB adapter and I'll be able to print/scan with all the computers on my network?

Thanks.

[Rehan]

You can't do it with a regular USB WiFi adapter and a non-network-ready printer because neither has the intelligence required for the print server capability.

[ynchu]

I love the way you say it, "lack of intelligence!"

[D-Sisive]

u could try, plug printer usb to usb>ethernet adapter then plug it into router

find the ip it assigns (if it does at all)

then configure printer in windows to be a standard tcp/ip port

probably wont work as Rehan stated, one of them has to have the intelligence of knowing a printer server connection is needed

you can also go buy a usb>parallel converter that way you can use your old printer server

worst case is you share it on your computer if its on all the time

[Jon Lai]

Yea, but I don't permantly leave on ANY of my computers 24/7 on a regular basis unfortunately - I looked on the internet and there are guides telling you how to turn an old computer into a print server, but I hate the idea of having the computer on 24/7, so I'm not doing it that way.

I know it's probably impossible, but I was hoping that there'd be 1% chance that it was possible :P

About parallel to usb converters/adapters, I'm worried that the speed of the connection will greatly suffer, because 14mbps vs 8kbps is a big difference, lol. And those adapters aren't very common either, nor do they come cheap.

[Last]

If you can't get your existing hardware to play nice together... you may want to try one of these (http://www.cty.ca/index.asp?dir=networking&category=Printer%20Server) OR these! (http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProdList&cmd=pl&id=NT.787)

I haven't tried them myself - so I can't comment.

Good Luck!

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[Jon Lai]

If you can't get your existing hardware to play nice together... you may want to try one of these (http://www.cty.ca/index.asp?dir=networking&category=Printer%20Server) OR these! (http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProdList&cmd=pl&id=NT.787)

I haven't tried them myself - so I can't comment.

Good Luck!

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Thanks, but, not worth the money... I have an SMC one that's a router built with a parallel print server, so it was more worth the money when I bought it.