Hi Severin, Michael >From memory, the thing about Airport Express is that for non-network enabled printers, printer/scanners etc only basic printing is supported.
Eg for my canon IP4000, if plugged in via USB I can launch the printer utility and check ink levels, clean nozzles etc - however if set up as a wireless printer (plugged into the Airport Express) I can print just fine but can't perform these maintenance functions. I seem to remember previous posts relating to printer scanners saying that the scanning wasn't supported via the Airport Express unless the drivers covered this via the network - so, for example, a network printer/scanner with ethernet but no built-in wireless WOULD work wirelessly via an Airport Express because it had the drivers for network scanning. I'm going on memory here so you might want to check the archives to confirm. I guess, it is becoming less relevant now since on consumer level machines wireless now tends to be more common than ethernet. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 30/11/09 4:05 PM, Michael Waldie at mikewal...@mac.com wrote: > > Hi Severin, > > I have not come across a printer/scanner unit that is supported using Airport > Express/Extreme, if anyone has had success, please do share. If it were to > work I would say it would only be printing and not scanning that would work. > I have seen a couple of HP printer/scanner units with built in wifi work quite > well, no experience with Epson though. > > > > On 30/11/2009, at 3:56 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > > > I am helping my son set up a new LAN at home. Currently he has a desktop PC > with a USB printer and an HP (work) laptop with wireless connectivity. He has > a D-Link G604T wireless router/modem and which has 4 ethernet ports. He is > looking to add a MacBook and an iMac and to purchase a printer/scanner. He > will phase out the desktop PC except for occasional necessary Windows tasks > like eTax. > The D-Link does not have a USB printer port but I see that printer/scanner > units are available with Wifi connectivity (Epson TX550W for example). Would > the best way to go be to invest in Airport Express/Extreme and get a non-wifi > printer/scanner and use the printer facility to share among all units. This > would make the wifi bit of the D-Link redundant but would not require a > wireless enabled printer. Clearly the iMac and PC will be deskbound and can > connect to the printer by ethernet (or wireless for the iMac). > My own system is centred around an Airport Extreme and a DSL-504 router/modem > and I share a laser printer among three computers very happily, including a > wireless MacBook. > Are there issues with printer/scanner units on this sort of setup? > Words of wisdom will be welcomed. > Severin Crisp > ________________________________________________________ > Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP > 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. > Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) > email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au > ________________________________________________________ > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
