On 5 Jan 2005, at 07:15, Susan Platter wrote:
Forgive my ignorance, but how do you network a printer? The one connected to my CRT iMac is what we use at present and I have another connected to a PC, but the iMac has to be on for the printer to be accessible.
Thanks for any advice.
Susan Platter Swindon, Wiltshire
I have an old parallel port laser printer, an Oki 16n. Onto this I have added a Netgear Printer Port: this is essentially a little device with an ethernet port at one end and a parallel port at the other. Thus this printer port device is connected to the network (via the ethernet port) and the printer is connected to it (via the parallel port). There is a configuration utility (PC-solely, alas) by which I can assign an identity to the printer and also a static IP address. Once this is done it is visible to all computers on the network.
One other caveat: this is a postscript printer (I bought an add-on PS board for it). Therefore all the computers (PCs and Macs) simply talk Postscript to it and it understands. I'm not so sure of it would work if the printer was restricted to PCL5 or something like that.
In fact I'd welcome advice on that: can a non-PS printer be placed on the network in this way? Will Macs in particular print to network-attached printers that aren't Postscript?
Tom Burke
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