On 11/14/05, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:13:56PM -0800:
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> <lots snipped>
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> > Well, OK. Scanning the HP web site it looks like "Real printers"
> > start at about $200 in the all-in-one department and go up rapidly
> > from there. Unless there is some kind of USB-to-Ethernet dongle that
> > can be attached to the lesser ones.
> >
>
> There are JetDirect devices ( I think that's what they called 'em).
> When I was testing some of the first USB printers that the HP
> division I worked in made, these were just starting to be tested as
> well. The parallel port ones had been around a while.
I am familiar with the parallel-port JetDirect print servers. I just
spent half an hour net-browsing to learn about USB JetDirect and other
(non-HP) print servers. Looks like the genuine USB JetDirect lists
for $300 (en3700). The less expensive models have been discontinued
by HP.
Going to other sources of information (eBay and Amazon) I find that
the en3700 can be bought for about $100. The previous HP models (175x
and 310x) run about $80 on eBay.
Customer reviews from Amazon are fairly consistent in panning other
makes of Ethernet USB print servers. Netgear, D-link, Hawking,
Linksys all don't work very well, and in particular seem not to work
with the scanning function of All-in-one devices. But the prices are
quite a bit less. :-) There are no Amazon customer reviews of HP
JetDirect USB print servers.
carl
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