Digital BW, The Print

David: here's what I did to share a couple printers between three 
computers.  I run XP-win2000 and a version of OS/2warp called 
eComStation if you don t know windows does not like to play nice with 
it.  I had the HP1300 which has a USB and Parelle Port on it, hook the 
USB to a Linksys usb print server and let all three computers set up 
their own driver for the print server and installed the hp drivers.  
Then I hook up another print server and hook up a Epsom C80/84 to it did 
same thing the print servers were wired servers hook into a 10/100 hub 
hook directly into the ports on the Router, which the separate computers 
were also hook up. I have not been able to make OS2 and the wins play 
with each other but I am able to print to all printers with all OS's and 
go out on the Internet.  I then hook up a Epsom RX500 USB into XP and 
let win2000 printer thru XP when needed.  I then hook up two Cannon's 
into the win2000 and did the same thing. Problem with eComStation is 
some of the newer printers don t have drivers.   At work we have a NT 
server and I bought in a parelle port print server  I had left over and 
hook up it and NT and my win2000 box and the new xp's can all see the 
print server and print to the printer without going thru NT server. 
Sometimes the NT boxs print to the printer real slow,takes a while for 
print job to start once starter prints normal.  I have not had that 
problem at home though. 
I have also hook up a printer this way too. eComStation and XP  the OS2 
box hook up to the parelle port and the XP hook up to the USB port,never 
had a problem printing from either box.  That may be a way for you, does 
not the 1280 have USB and parelle ports.                Anthony

Dave wrote:

>I've got both OS X Macs and PCs (XP), and I need to share an Epson 1270 between all my 
>computers. I'd love to have the printer on the network with a wireless (or wired) print 
>server, but I haven't been able to tell if it would really work. The Mac and XP PC are in 
>different rooms, so a USB switch is not a possible solution. It seems that laser printers are 
>often in a different category, because some of the sharing schemes require the use of 
>PostScript.
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>Has anybody succeeded in setting up something similar? What hardware did you use? 
>Anthony, what operating systems are you running?
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>Thanks!
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