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Printer in next room - how?

Printer in next room - how?

2004-10-24 by Bernie Ess

Hello, in the future I would like to get a larger printer than my
current Stylus 2100 - maybe a Stylus 4000, maybe even a 7600. In
either case, I wouldn't want to have this huge machine standing in my
living room where my computer is, but in my sleeping room where I have
some empty space...

Now my question is how to connect this printer to my PC: To connect it
directly via cable is quite far ( cable would have to be at least
15-20m, it's on the other end of the flat) and I would have to lay out
a cable through my whole appartment - How about wireless? Would I have
to have a whole PC or would a small hardware receiving unit be enough?
I am not experienced at all with this stuff...

Could it be done with a notebook - (I have a IBM thinkpad - how many
MB of RAM would be recommended just to make the notebook print the
files - no editing of course).

Thanks for your input,

Bernhard

RE: [Digital BW] Printer in next room - how?

2004-10-24 by Bill Cheadle

Bernie,

If you have a network, try a USB print server. You can get these wired or
wireless. I have a C82 on one - it's wired - and it works fine. I can access
it from any computer on my network.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bernie Ess [mailto:albatros-@...]
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:35 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Printer in next room - how?




Hello, in the future I would like to get a larger printer than my
current Stylus 2100 - maybe a Stylus 4000, maybe even a 7600. In
either case, I wouldn't want to have this huge machine standing in my
living room where my computer is, but in my sleeping room where I have
some empty space...

Now my question is how to connect this printer to my PC: To connect it
directly via cable is quite far ( cable would have to be at least
15-20m, it's on the other end of the flat) and I would have to lay out
a cable through my whole appartment - How about wireless? Would I have
to have a whole PC or would a small hardware receiving unit be enough?
I am not experienced at all with this stuff...

Could it be done with a notebook - (I have a IBM thinkpad - how many
MB of RAM would be recommended just to make the notebook print the
files - no editing of course).

Thanks for your input,

Bernhard






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Re: Printer in next room - how?

2004-10-24 by Steve Kale

Go buy an Apple Airport Express and plug it into the wall (power socket) next to the 
printer and connect the printer to it via the USB cable connection.  Configure the wifi 
(either as a new network or as a repeater to an existing wifi network) and you are done.  
$129 works like a dream.  Your computer will need a wifi card but these are pretty 
standard these days so I assume you likely have that already.  I just did this yesterday and 
was done in 5 minutes from opening the box.   That was with an Apple computer and a 
Windows laptop - they can now share the printer.  The Airport Express also has 
instructions for Windows computers.   


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bernie Ess" <albatros-@g...> 
wrote:
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> 
> Hello, in the future I would like to get a larger printer than my
> current Stylus 2100 - maybe a Stylus 4000, maybe even a 7600. In
> either case, I wouldn't want to have this huge machine standing in my
> living room where my computer is, but in my sleeping room where I have
> some empty space...
> 
> Now my question is how to connect this printer to my PC: To connect it
> directly via cable is quite far ( cable would have to be at least
> 15-20m, it's on the other end of the flat) and I would have to lay out
> a cable through my whole appartment - How about wireless? Would I have
> to have a whole PC or would a small hardware receiving unit be enough?
> I am not experienced at all with this stuff...
> 
> Could it be done with a notebook - (I have a IBM thinkpad - how many
> MB of RAM would be recommended just to make the notebook print the
> files - no editing of course).
> 
> Thanks for your input,
> 
> Bernhard

Re: [Digital BW] Printer in next room - how?

2004-10-24 by sinwen

It is a matter of distance, 15/20m is not possible with any USB or IEEE cable. Get to your computer supplier to find out about wireless but I doubt you'll be able to send 100Mo through it, 
Last solution and the only one, buy an ethernet card to place at the back of your printer  (Hum....you might get shocked by the price) and use RJ45 connection.
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  Hello, in the future I would like to get a larger printer than my
  current Stylus 2100 - maybe a Stylus 4000, maybe even a 7600. In
  either case, I wouldn't want to have this huge machine standing in my
  living room where my computer is, but in my sleeping room where I have
  some empty space...

  Now my question is how to connect this printer to my PC: To connect it
  directly via cable is quite far ( cable would have to be at least
  15-20m, it's on the other end of the flat) and I would have to lay out
  a cable through my whole appartment - How about wireless? Would I have
  to have a whole PC or would a small hardware receiving unit be enough?
  I am not experienced at all with this stuff...

  Could it be done with a notebook - (I have a IBM thinkpad - how many
  MB of RAM would be recommended just to make the notebook print the
  files - no editing of course).

  Thanks for your input,

  Bernhard






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Re: [Digital BW] Printer in next room - how?

2004-10-24 by Julian Yahoo 1

I have a printer in the next room (about 8m) wired via USB cable - including a 5m cable, hub and a male/female converter cable. I cannot use wireless (18" stone walls).

If you can do wireless I would give it a try. The problem is likely to be the bandwidth of the connection. My server which runs the print queues has about 10Gb set aside for print queue buffering (one of my other printers is USB 1.1 - slooooow).

Alternatively if you would like to go Ethernet you should be able to get a small box which takes an ip address and simply converts Ethernet to whatever you need.

Julian
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Cheadle 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 3:08 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Printer in next room - how?


  Bernie,

  If you have a network, try a USB print server. You can get these wired or
  wireless. I have a C82 on one - it's wired - and it works fine. I can access
  it from any computer on my network.



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RE: [Digital BW] Printer in next room - how?

2004-10-26 by Richard Wolfson_

An Epson Ethernet card is a very good (wired) solution. It's an
IP-addressable print server on a little board that fits in a slot in the
printer. You connect via CAT-5 cable.

Richard Wolfson
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> 
> Hello, in the future I would like to get a larger printer... 
> 
> Now my question is how to connect this printer to my PC:

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