Tony:
I'm in the same boat as you. I looked into it, and the "print servers' out
there won't work with my HP laserjet series 1000, nor the low end ones
bi-directional. Since I go thru one printer every few years, I'm keeping
one
PC on the home network on as a "file and print" server, as files are saved
to
it, and backed up form here. So, the I got one PC on all the time acting
as
my print server.
Right now, when I print off the laser in the study, either from the living
room PC, or from the laptop in the bedroom, I could hear my APC UPS starts
beeping saying too much wattage is being used, as I got the printer hooked
to
the UPS. While the UPS beep signal is not meant to be used as such, I
could
hear that whatever I needed is being printed, and if I don't hear
anything,
its's jammed or out of paper.
With this beeping, I don't need anything bi-directional right now.
Long term, I'm looking at "network printers", and I see Dell has a low end
color laser network printer going for $299.00. In conjunction with this,
I've
been reviewing "network storage". At that point, why spend money on a
printer
and an expensive print server???
I haven't seen too many complaints on network printers, and would like to
hear what others may have to say as I might be in the market for one
shortly.
Tony Williams said:
I have one printer that I want to connect to a network. From a previous
[post I understand I do this with a print server. However from looking at
the cheaper print servers they don't appear to handle bidirectional
facilities. Can anyone recommend a print server that handles
bidirectional
printing and therefore allows ink level management etc?
Thanks
Tony
