On 5 Jan 2005, at 09:40, Tom Burke wrote:
One is an Epson Stylus Pro 7500 and the other is an Epson Stylus Colour 3000, both with ethernet cards and connected, with an HP LaserJet, to a Netgear switch which is in turn connected to a Linksys router. Also connected to the router are three computers (Macs only). Both these machines are what might be deemed "professional" printers but there are smaller printers available with standard or optional ethernet cards. If the load is not great, a 100 Base T card is going to be plenty fast enough and, if connected with a switch, rather than a hub, it should not slow the network down. However, this is still going to be a significant investment and, depending on your needs, you may get better value out of spending a few hundred more on a printer which you can share across several machines with USB sharing, if they all support it. I would guess that the cards are going to add between �150 and �200 to the price of your printer.Drew
Can you tell me which printers, and how you've networked them? Are they just sitting on the network, or connected to a computer?
Tom
Another point that I will throw in as being slightly relevant is the observation that though Epson tend to be much more plug and play than HP when it comes to pro machines, Epson decided to drop support for the ESP7500 but carried on writing a driver for the 7600, which left me with a fairly new machine without OSX support and I have not been able to get anything like the quality of print I used to get under OS9 with the Gimp print drivers. I have been told I can get around this with other third party software but after a horror story of using third party stuff with an HP printer I am loth to go there with our limited funds. There is an equivalent of the ESC3000 recently out in the �1000+ bracket which I presume is still offered with a card as an option and, if it is like the 3000 it is a good size for people wanting to work up to a real A2 size or to print edge to edge A3. The old and rickety 1500 was put out as an A2 printer and also came with a card option but in truth this was really just an oversize A3 unit.
Drew
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