Setting up a printer to a router, it won't connect

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited November 2003 in Science & Tech
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  • verselloversello New
    edited November 2003
    Soz, that's not possible for your printer. Altho nice try, heh heh.

    The only way to hook up a printer directly to the network is if it supported it directly (eg - higher-end HP printers w/ JetDirect) OR if you bought a router with built-in print server functionality... that would be the much cheaper alternative.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
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  • verselloversello New
    edited November 2003
    Unless you find some adapter that 'speaks' TCP/IP I doubt you'll have any luck in that route.
  • drowddrowd Texas
    edited November 2003
    i think the easiest route is to just hook the printer up to the computer via parallel or usb and then allow the other computers on the network just use the printer through printer sharing. i dont think there is really going to be anyway to do it the way you are wanting to . . .
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
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  • verselloversello New
    edited November 2003
    Originally posted by yagga
    but the computer HAS TO BE ON right? there is no possible way for the secondary computer to print when the first one is off. I wonder... do they make "y" splitters for parallel cables? or a parallel hub like the common usb's?

    Yes, the computer HAS to be on, and yes, they do make splitters.
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
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