[PLUG] ethernet to USB printer adapters

m0gely m0gely at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 07:12:04 UTC 2010


Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I've got a spare HP1600 color laser printer sitting in storage,
> bought for the toner cartridges.  Now that the refills are cheap,
> I can deploy it.  However, it has a USB interface, and I want it
> on Ethernet.  It lives in a place that doesn't have a computer
> nearby, just a windoze p.o.sh.
>
> There are ethernet-to-usb printer server adapters out there, not
> too expensive, and some claim to be Linux compatable.  Does anybody
> have experience with these?  If they are inadequate, I may deploy
> an ALIX instead.

Unless there is some weird translation going on in the print server, I 
would think they would be OS agnostic. Having said that:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370327610161

Can't do better than a factory option.

-- 
m0gely



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