I recently jumped through a lot of hoops trying to make an Epson
700 and 740 print on my Ethernt/Appletalk network. It cannot be done
with just the Epson hardware with these printers.
The shareware "Epsonshare" does work, but is time-limited: it only
works for12 hours or so. By the time you get it set and running it is
sending up shareware messages.
USB Printer Sharing requires you to use TCP/IP and System 9.1.It
seemed quite complicated to set up.
According to Epson's tech's,printer sharing should be built into
all of the newer models. It is found in the "Chooser' menu just like
with Apple printers.If you have this option, all that you have to do
is install the printer driver on the all of the computer that you
want to print from and select that printer in the Chooser.
My solution to the network printer problem was to get a Color
Stylewriter 2400 at Goodwill for cheap.
Paul
> Here's the deal. I presently have several un-networked
> Macs, which I am hoping to set up in a small network:
>
> one C600 desktop w/a USB card
> one pre-powermac performa
> two powerbook 1400's
>
> The reason for which I am asking here is, that my old
> HP printer has gone to the old scrapyard in the sky
> and my new one is an Epson C800 with only USB and PC
> parallel connections.
>
> I am a complete newby to anything but localtalk (even
> after all these years) and read SOMEWHERE of a way to
> add a USB printer into an ethernet network. I wondered
> if this is the way to go.
>
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