Network Printing - Double Connection

[Geoff Lane]

I've got a HP C5280 Photosmart multifunction printer.

Currently it is connected to a Linux box and other XP machines use it
via my samba server network.

This works fine but I would like a printer server to save booting up one
computer for the printer to be available on the network. I know some
printer servers do not support multi function printers and I have no
problem with this as I cannot see anyway how one could use remote
scanning or copying.

I do not though, want to lose the multi function use for my main
computer, any suggestions how I could get over this; could I for
instance, use a USB hub and feed one connection to the printer server
and one to my main computer?

Geoff Lane

 

[Warren Block]

I've got a HP C5280 Photosmart multifunction printer.

Currently it is connected to a Linux box and other XP machines use it
via my samba server network.

This works fine but I would like a printer server to save booting up one
computer for the printer to be available on the network. I know some
printer servers do not support multi function printers and I have no
problem with this as I cannot see anyway how one could use remote
scanning or copying.

I do not though, want to lose the multi function use for my main
computer, any suggestions how I could get over this; could I for
instance, use a USB hub and feed one connection to the printer server
and one to my main computer?

A USB print server is going to be a USB host and not want to share the
USB printer connection with the computer, so I'd be very surprised if
that worked.

There is the C6280, which is similar to the C5280 but has a built-in
Ethernet port in addition to USB. (It would be silly for it not to
handle connections on both ports, but that's exactly the type of
silliness that AIO cost-reduction can produce. Verify first.)