[Novalug] Wireless Printers

[Jon LaBadie]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:03:19PM -0400, Stephan Greene wrote:
> Looking to add a printer made a bit more recently than 10 years ago to the
> home network.  And that will be accessible to me and family when we are on
> the wireless network.  I've heard good things about the Brother laser
> printers (while color is nice, ink jet $/page is a bit much and we can go
> wired for that).  And our HPs have been rock solid (the HP4Plus is ancient
> but holding up fine and will probably get retired when we can no longer get
> toner cartridges).

Yeah, I was happy with our 4m and 4m+.  The latter was still in use by
a friend until their home burned down last Dec.  Probably about a dozen
years of use or more.

> Any other suggestions?  Wireless print servers or maybe a new f/w-router are
> an option but if they only work with a USB printer, I may as well get a
> wireless printer.

Not much available aside from usb, ethernet wired or wireless.

If you need a switch anyway, a print server/switch worked pretty well for
me several years ago.

Again, several years ago, I used small Hawking ethernet print servers to
attach a USB and another for a parallel port printer.  They were about
the size of a deck of cards.  Seem to still be on Amazon along with some
wireless devices.

We replaced the HP's when my wife absolutely needed color.  I made auction
bids at ubid.com on two different Ricoh models (CL2000N and CL3500N).  Got
them for $300 and $350 respectively.  Big heavy suckers that have done well.
And they have builtin ethernet and print servers (mimics HP's jetdirect).
Of course, a full set of toner replacements cost more than the purchase price.
For a while ubid continued to have auctions on them and I considered buying
some just for the toner :)

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