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Wireless network printing with qtr

2005-12-26 by Howard Shaw

Apologies if this is a little off topic. I've always run QTR with a Win 
XP PC and a locally attached Epson 2100 (paralell cable). I've now 
upgraded the PC and wish to put the printer in another room and send 
prints to it over a wireless network using a netgear WG602 Wireless 
Access Point which uses the 802.11g wireless protocol.

I seem to have two choices - I could buy a wireless print server such as 
the Netgear WGPS606 which has a USB connection to the printer -

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3TFD

or I could use the old PC (a Pentium 3 700 Mhz) as a dedicated print 
server with a wireless network card. A disadvantage of this is that I 
don't have much room to set up the computer & screen that would be required.

However, with the latter solution I would also have the choice of either 
setting the printer up on the main PC as a network printer or I could 
have QTR installed on the older PC and save the final tiff into a 
monitored folder on that PC. This would have the advantage of freeing up 
resources on my main PC quicker.

Does anyone have any opinions on these set ups and should they both work 
okay? I'm concerned about speed of transfer to printer (although I think 
qtr is likely to be the bottleneck here) and also freeing resources on 
the main PC as quickly as possible.

Thanks for any input
Howard

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