QTR-Quadtone RIP

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

Hi Howard,
Just to say that I have my 2100 direct connected to my PC but I have
an 1160 and a 4000 connected through a wireless Belkin 802.11g
connection. Both printers work very fast although they are in the same
room as the PC, (I get accused of taking over too many rooms in the
house already) also with the heavier papers you sometimes need to help
the paper through as they don't always load automatically.I have just
done a test on the 1160 and it was very fast.
I have no info on your other suggestion.

Regards
Gerry

www.gerrycoe.co.uk







--- In QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com, Howard Shaw <glassman@b...> wrote:
>
> 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
>