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Summary: Works with kinks
Review: There are a number of posts indicating that this does not work. Just wanted to say that it worked on two of my printers. Epson 870 and Samsung 1710 laser. But it is not flawless getting it going. I seem to have a power on sequence problem. I used to turn the printer/server on at the same time. It won't initialize properly when its powered up at the same time. I've haven't figure the power on sequence but seems like the printer has to be powered on and initialized first. (But it may be the otherway around.) But when they are initialized properly, they work flawless if I don't loose power to the house. Now I leave them both on all the time. BTW, Epson's print monitor does not work with the print server.Another thing, DON'T loose the installation disk, you can't get a replacement driver from their web site.
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Summary: Works with Canon I850 and Windows XP
Review: This product works with a Canon I850 and Windows XP in Ethernet mode. The wireless option was not tested. The documentation for setup and configuration is inadequate. If you are using this product with a Canon I850 and Windows XP I have the following suggestions for installation: 1. Throw out the Linksys quick start guide.
2. Attach the I850 directly to your computer and install the Canon print driver.
3. Install the Linksys "Bi-Admin" utility from the Linksys startup CD using the autorun installation.
4. Attach printer to print server, attach print server to network, power up print server, turn printer off and then on again.
5. You should have a DHCP server on your network to assign an address to the print server. Otherwise, the print server will use the default failed dhcp address.
6. Using the "Bi-Admin" configuration utility, configure the printserver with a fixed IP address from your local network. Save the configuration.
7. Recycle power on the print server.
8. Recycle power on the printer.
5. Install an "IPP" client from the Linksys install CD. (E:\DRIVER\IPP\IPPCLIENT).
6. Complete installation instructions from pages 35 to 39 of the Linksys user guide.
7. The printer can now be accessed remotely. Notes: This USB print server works with the Canon I850 but it slows down the performance of the printer. This has little impact on plain text printing but it is very noticeable on photo printing. The extra flexibility of a network print server was worth the speed tradeoff. There are few choices for USB print servers with a wireless option. This is the best one available.
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Summary: Don't believe everything you read.
Review: This server works flawlessly with a Samsung ML1430 laser printer on a mixed-vendor wired/wireless network, even with a Netgear (not Linksys) wireless card. Setup is simple, and the installation utilities are fine. My take is that many of the so-called "problems" and "product defects" people gripe about simply stem from a lack of experience.
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Summary: Product is great, newer printers are not.
Review: When you buy a "multifunction" printer, you are locking yourself into connecting it directly to a (Windows) PC. I bought a PPS1UW and an HP 7550 Color printer on the same day. I ran into the exact same problems that others have commented on, but I know who to blame. HP. HP. HP. How can you create a printer that requires "special drivers" to print? What's wrong with good old PostScript? What's wrong with standards? Yes, I ended up talking to both HP and Linksys tech support and ran into the nightmare of "we are sorry, but that is not supported" from BOTH vendors. I ended up using an existing JetDirect to run the 7550 and the linksys to run my other (HP 1220 laserjet) printer. The linksys runs great with standard printers. HP stinks (as do the other printer vendors) for creating non-standard printers that consumers expect to actually work correctly. Support Linksys and throw away all of those stupid printers that do things that we don't need through incompatible interfaces. AlanC
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Summary: Product is great, newer printers are not.
Review: When you buy a "multifunction" printer, you are locking yourself into connecting it directly to a (Windows) PC. I bought a PPS1UW and an HP 7550 Color printer on the same day. I ran into the exact same problems that others have commented on, but I know who to blame. HP. HP. HP. How can you create a printer that requires "special drivers" to print? What's wrong with good old PostScript? What's wrong with standards? Yes, I ended up talking to both HP and Linksys tech support and ran into the nightmare of "we are sorry, but that is not supported" from BOTH vendors. I ended up using an existing JetDirect to run the 7550 and the linksys to run my other (HP 1220 laserjet) printer. The linksys runs great with standard printers. HP stinks (as do the other printer vendors) for creating non-standard printers that consumers expect to actually work correctly. Support Linksys and throw away all of those stupid printers that do things that we don't need through incompatible interfaces. AlanC
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