Rating: 
Summary: Works great once you get it to work
Review: The challenge was to get this to work in the first place. The installation seemed straightforward, but I couldn't get it work on my laser printer (it would "wake up" and the data light would flash, but then nothing would print). I was able to get it to work with my inkjet from my Win98 desktop, but not from my Win2K laptop. I was later able to get it to work from my laptop by switching to LPR protocol, but then this stopped working the next day. When I checked the D-Link support website, it said that the print server doesn't support GDI printers and listed just about every current HP Deskjet model (including mine) as unsupported (what a relevation, even though I know it's not correct).After several frustrating days, I was about to pack it up and return it, but decided to give it one last try. I deleted the printers from my PCs and started over. Lo and behold, it worked this time with the laser printer on both my desktop and laptop PCs. And it has worked flawlessly since then. A couple of things should be noted: 1) Advanced printer features such as two-sided printing (and probably options to pick print quality/stock) on my HP inkjet are not supported, so use the print server for standard printing only. I have it hooked up to my laser printer, which is used for ordinary and high-volume print jobs. Options such as print orientation, number of pages per sheet, number of print copies are supported however. 2) The installation instructions do a disservice by telling users to change the IP address of their network in order to have it encompass the IP address of the print server. Instead, they should tell you to change the print server's address to make it fall within the range of your existing network. In the configuration program, I simply changed the IP address setting from Manual to DHCP and it was able to assign an acceptable address for the server. If you have trouble with the initial installation, don't give up right away. Once you get it working, it is well worth the effort. It is so cool to be able to bring home a laptop from work and to be able to use a printer simply by plugging in the Ethernet cable (which I have to do anyway for work), and not have to hassle with a switch box or Windows printer sharing (which requires leaving the host PC on).
Rating:
Summary: GREAT: ONCE YOU SOLVE MINOR PROBLEMS
Review: The only thing worse than this print server was DLink's support. Bottom line it would print nothing but gibberish. The first level guy has no idea. The second level guy actually admits that he knows nothing about the device and that I have more documentation than he does because I have the manual that came with the device. Wow! They don't even let there employee's download the electronic documentation from the web. Might just be a defective device, might have been some port setting that the second level support department didn't know about. I don't know. What I know is that the second level support represntitive didn't have the answers so he asked for my name and phone number and let me know that a senior technician would call me back. ETA 48 to 72 Hours. Long story short returned the Dlink and picked up a Hawking Technologies, PN7127P Print Server for the same price....worked out of the box.
Rating: 
Summary: Run, while you can!!
Review: The only thing worse than this print server was DLink's support. Bottom line it would print nothing but gibberish. The first level guy has no idea. The second level guy actually admits that he knows nothing about the device and that I have more documentation than he does because I have the manual that came with the device. Wow! They don't even let there employee's download the electronic documentation from the web. Might just be a defective device, might have been some port setting that the second level support department didn't know about. I don't know. What I know is that the second level support represntitive didn't have the answers so he asked for my name and phone number and let me know that a senior technician would call me back. ETA 48 to 72 Hours. Long story short returned the Dlink and picked up a Hawking Technologies, PN7127P Print Server for the same price....worked out of the box.
Rating:
Summary: GREAT: ONCE YOU SOLVE MINOR PROBLEMS
Review: This unit works great, once you get some of the minor problems taken care of. The previous statement about the manual (LEAVING A LOT TO BE DESIRED) is a correct statement. The only real problem I had was with the IP address for the D-Link unit. Seems this unit used the same IP address as my Netgear router, but that was easily taken care of by Netgear. Simply changed the IP address for the Netgear router from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.100 . The D-Link unit uses 192.168.0.1 and D-Link doesn't have a real service support to speak of,without you being required to make a long distance call to California and after making contact (waiting and waiting). But overall, it's great and an inexpensive was to convert a normal printer to a network printer
Rating: 
Summary: Well designed and easy to install and configure
Review: Through no fault of this excellent product I was only able to use it for a week - I inherited an old Lexmark Z11 inkjet that I wanted to share between two laptops in my corporate apartment, but wound up replacing the Lexmark with an USB-only printer. What makes this such an excellent product is the ease of installation and the fact that it flawlessly works. Installing it consisted of attaching the device directly to the printer's parallel interface, connecting an Ethernet cable to the RJ-45 port on the other side of the print server, running the CD ROM installation and being able to immediately print to a shared printer. One of the things I most like is the installation and configuration utility that ships with this device. You get an administration program (you can also access and administer the print server through a browser or through a telnet session), and an "add printer" wizard that makes configuring other computers on your network easy. In fact, the "add printer" wizard is a quantum improvement over D-Link's earlier Pocket Print Server products - I own an older model and set-up and configuration was somewhat confusing, which is no longer the case with their newer software. I also link the small power supply, which takes up little space in a power strip or on an UPS. Overall, this is a high quality product that has a plethora of features (it supports Windows networking, AppleTalk and TCP/IP, and it can be managed via browser of by using TCP/IP telnet), and can be installed and configured by a novice.
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