Hi Cheryl, For the USB printer shared through Airport Extreme check the iFelix unofficial Airport Extreme and Express Printer Compatibility List. The list includes all printers on Apple's original list of compatible printers, later printers reported to work, and printers iFelix himself has gotten to work. They also list known incompatible printers.
The iFelix web site has a very good Airport web page at: http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/airport.html It covers connections to Windows PCs, configuration under OS 9, configuration and printing issues, and a host of other topics. I recommend you start at that page. Search on compatibility to get to the link for the list of printers near the bottom of the page, There's also an Apple Discussion Forum for Airport Extreme and Express connected printers. General guidelines: network compatible printers and printers that use standard languages like PostScript and PCL are more likely to work. You can often use the gimp-print drivers. Multi-function all-in-one printers are problematic. Printers that aren't on the compatibility list can work for some things -- the hp deskjet 5150 that came free with my Powerbook works for letters and documents with small graphics wirelessly printed from Mac or PC, but will stop midway through printing a photo. Hope this helps, Esther On Thursday, January 05, 2006, at 05:33PM, Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also am looking into getting a usb printer; I want to be able to >plug it into the usb port on my Airport Extreme and use printer >sharing. Does anybody know of any pitfalls of which I should be aware >in choosing a printer? > >Thanks. > >-- >Cheryl
