A little printer help. Network question [Archive] - Canon Digital Photography Forums

Dan-o

8th of March 2009 (Sun), 21:20

Some what of a network question I guess. I have an HP printer that is in another room hooked up with an ethernet cable to my wireless router. It works great as all 4 of my laptops can print to it wirelessly with no problems.

I bought a wide format printer (Epson 1400) to print out 13 x 19 pages for Autocad. It only has a USB connection and I want to put it in the same room as the other printer. How can I achieve this? I googled but didn't find anything very up to date. Thanks.

MaxxuM

8th of March 2009 (Sun), 21:41

Some what of a network question I guess. I have an HP printer that is in another room hooked up with an ethernet cable to my wireless router. It works great as all 4 of my laptops can print to it wirelessly with no problems.

I bought a wide format printer (Epson 1400) to print out 13 x 19 pages for Autocad. It only has a USB connection and I want to put it in the same room as the other printer. How can I achieve this? I googled but didn't find anything very up to date. Thanks.

You would have to get a Wireless Print Server (with USB connection) but the down side is no return info from the printer (i.e. no ink levels, errors, etc).

Dan-o

9th of March 2009 (Mon), 15:56

Thanks Maxxum. Do you have any experiences with these.

http://www.smartvm.com/USB-EXTENDER-VIA-CAT-5-EXTENDS-4-USB-DEVICES-P7252.htm

MaxxuM

9th of March 2009 (Mon), 17:26

Nope sorry. There are two things I would look more into though. It does not seem to have USB 2 support (only mentions 1.0 and 1.1) and is communication bidirectional? If the printer can handle 1.1, and you can handle the slightly longer waits AND it's bidirectional then it seems OK. I would look for something that stated those two things openly though.