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rodco
February 18th, 2006, 01:21 AM
I have 3 computers on my home office network. 2 are win xp and 1 mac 10.4
I also have 3 printers I would like to connect so that all computers can share them. Is there a print server that will work? Is that the way I should go? If so, how do I go about setting it up?


TIA
Rod

jstanek7
February 18th, 2006, 05:40 AM
if you have a printer hooked up to each pc you can share them. I'm not sure if you can share a printer with a mac.

Tuttle
February 18th, 2006, 08:34 AM
What sort of printers are they?

If you can get proper network cards for the printers, that's ideal (although expensive). Otherwise, I've had decent success with some of the parallel-to-network print servers (mostly D-Link DP-301P+). Never tried the USB-to-parallel ones, but USB stuff tends to be more problematic when you try to do anything other than simple device-PC connections.

rodco
February 20th, 2006, 01:39 AM
I have 2 laser and 1 inkjet