Rating: 
Summary: Print Server + LAN Switch = Great for home network
Review: Despite review comments I read before I bought product about
difficulty with installation and functionality, I successfully
installed this new product from Linksys using their documentation
with NO PROBLEMS. I replaced my hub and always on desktop PC
that served as home network print server with this product and
my print performance shot up, so did my LAN performance due
to obvious architecture advantages of switch vs hub. I installed
the Linksys software on both Win98 AND Windows 2000. Note Windows
2000 software was NOT on CD, but easily downloaded from Linksys
Website and simply ran the "Setup" wizard. Print Server has
printed both documents, web pages, and photo applications as
well as my home network components can expect. Definitly everything is 3/4 times faster than when I had hub/PC arrangement. And now I get to turn the old desktop PC off, and
use my newer wireless laptops around the house, or other
wired connections at docking stations. I should also notedue to switch functionality, even my DSL internet connection
through the gateway seems faster, due to less lan CSMD contention, especially with overhead of wireless access point
and trying to use other wired connections on
my LAN. Works great.
Rating: 
Summary: HP Laserjet1200 and Linksys printserver
Review: Despite spending hours (days) attempting to configure the printserver, I was unsuccesful. The printserver does not appear to be compatible with the HP laserjet 1200. I wish I had read the reviews prior to purchase. Problem is incompatability with HP drivers. Tried all drivers, tried all settings. Would be interested to hear from the people who apparently got this to work.
Rating: 
Summary: A great print server, better than HP jetdirect
Review: Don't be scared away by some comments. I just got one, it works terrific.
Remind you, I don't have any experience installing any router, or print server before, though understand how it works...
After hesitating for a while, I decide to take the risk trying another print server, that's Linksys Etherfast.
Once I got it, plug it into our campus LAN, then, install the CD-ROM. Instantly, I can see the printServer on the network. (Unlike HP, this is the only linksys I can see, so, easy to find.) Then, I hook two printers up, configure port, select device port. All of them worked immediately, without even reading its manual (said to be very bad. I don't know.)
One thing as some reviewers found, when setup the tcp/ip configuration, I have some problem. But it does not affect the function at all. With this price, and its many ports, good compatibility. I love it.
Rating:
Summary: This Printserver does not work with all printers
Review: Folks, Be very careful when you buy this printserver. LinkSYS advertising on the box says that this works with all popular bi-directional and parallel printers --- IT DOES NOT! Don't be fooled into the same hassles that I have run into. I have a Xerox XD100 (a "popular" bi-directional/parallel printer) and 2 canon bjc-2100 printers (another "popular brand"). Neither work. Here is a list as of 4/25/02 from LinkSYS tech support as to the printers that don't work. There seems to be inherent problems getting bi-directinal printers to work correctly with printservers as an intermediate step. I would go for a JetDirect printer and save yourself the troubles. You may get these to work by disabling bi-directional printing in the spool settings under details under printer properties, but i didn't. Good LUCK! I would call them and ask for the latest update: Last Up Date 4-25-02 Printers That Been Known to Work With The Printservers ALPS Alps MD1000 BROTHER Brother HL 630
Brother HL 730
Brother HL 1040
Brother HL 1240
Brother HL 1260
Brother HL 1440
Brother MFC 3100
Brother MFC 4600
Brother MFC 8600
Brother MFE 9200C
Brother MFC 9600 DOESN'T WORK
Brother MFC 9700 DOESN'T WORK CALCOMP CalComp Techjet 720
CalComp CCL 600xF CANON Canon F50 DOESN'T WORK
Canon 100
Canon 200
Canon 250
Canon LBP 430
Canon LBP 460 DOESN'T WORK
Canon 600
Canon 610 Needs driver modification
Canon 620 Needs driver modification
Canon 2500
Canon 3170
Canon 4100
Canon 4200
Canon 5100
Canon 6000
Canon 7000
Canon BJC 80
Canon BJC 210 DOESN'T WORK
Canon BJC 2100 DOESN'T WORK
Canon BJC 230
Canon BJC 4100 needs driver modification
Canon BJC 5000 DOESN'T WORK COMPAQ Compaq IJ 200 make sure spool data format is PMJOURNAL and disable bidirectionality
Compaq IJ900 CITIZEN Citizen dot matrix works
Digital Lan 30 no on PPSX1 DYMO Dymo 300 ENCAD NOVAJET Encad 736 DOESN'T WORK EPSON Epson Stylus 2
Epson MX8
Epson FX100
EpsonTMU200
Epson 400
Epson 570
Epson LQ570 Plus
Epson 600 Needs spooler modification
Epson 640
Epson 740
Epson Stylus Photo 750
Epson 777 DOESN'T WORK
Epson Stylus 780
Epson Stylus Photo 780
Epson 800 Needs spooler modification
Epson 850
Epson 860 DOESN'T WORK
Epson LQ870
Epson 880 Stylus
Epson 980 Stylus
Epson T1000 DOT MATRIX
Epson LQ1070 plus esc/p2
Epson LQ1170
Epson 1200
Epson Action Lazer 1500
Epson 1520, works but needs to try new or different drivers
Epson 2500
Epson LQ2550
Epson 3000
Epson DFX 5000
Epson DFX 8000
Epson Photo
Epson Stylus color HP Deskjet HP 9
HP R80 DOESN'T WORK
HP 450C
HP 430
HP 500
HP 500C
HP 550C
HP 560C
HP 600C
HP 630 No bitrontics
HP 650 Designjet
HP 660C
HP 670C
HP 672C
HP 692C
HP 693
HP 694C
HP 710
HP 712C
HP 720C DOESN'T WORK
HP 722C needs driver modification
HP 820C
Hp 820CSE
HP 840C
HP 855C
HP 870CSE needs driver modification HP 870CXI needs driver modification
HP 880C
HP 890
HP 890C
HP 892 needs driver modification
HP 895C
HP 895 needs RAW or it will say out of paper
HP 895CXI
HP 932C
Hp 940C
HP 952C
HP 960CXI IT'S BEING TEST ON
HP 970C
HP 970CXI DOESN'T WORK
HP 970CSE
Hp 990
HP 1000 and 1000c
HP 1100
HP 1115
HP 1120C has alot of problems DOESN'T WORK ON PPS1
HP 1200
HP 1220C
HP 1315
HP CP1700
HP 2000
HP 2000C
HP 2100HDM
HP 2500C
HP 3100 DOESN'T WORK
Hp 3200
HP 4500 HP LazerJet HP 2
HP 2D
HP 3
Hp 3D DOESN'T WORK
HP 3SI
HP 4
HP 4L
HP 4M
HP 4ME
HP 4ML
HP 4MP
HP 4plus
HP 4SI
HP 4V
HP 4VC
HP 5L
HP 5MP
HP 5P
HP 5SI
HP 6
HP 6P
HP 6L
HP 6MP
HP 6P
HP R 80
HP 1100XI
Hp 1100
Hp 1200
HP 1220CSE DOESN'T WORK
HP 2100
HP 2100M
HP 2200
HP 2200D
Hp 3150 DOESN'T WORK
Hp 3200
HP 4000
HP 4100
HP 4500
HP 4500DN
HP 4550
HP 5000
HP 5000PS
HP 8000
HP 8100
HP 8150 HP OFFICEJETS
HP G55 DOESN'T WORK
Hp R60
Hp K60
HP T65 ONLY WITH GENERIC DRIVERS
Hp K80
HP G85 (able to print but scanner does not work)
HP 570 ONLY WITH GENERIC DRIVERS
HP 600 DOESN'T WORK
Hp 610
HP 1170CSE ONLY WITH GENERIC DRIVERS HP Plotter HP GL200
HP 220
HP 330
HP 350
HP 430
HP 600
HP 649C
HP 650
HP 750C DOESN'T WORK
HP JX1130 DOESN'T WORK HP INKJET HP 1150C
HP 842C IBM IBM 2380
IBM 4010 LEXMARK Lexmark 1000 Color
Lexmark 1020 DOESN'T WORK
Lexmark 3455
Lexmark 4029
Lexmark 5700
Lexmark 7000 Lexmark Z42 DOESN'T WORK
Lexmark Z52 DOESN'T WORK
Lexmark Z53 DOESN'T WORK
Lexmark Optra C
Lexmark Optra E
Lexmark Optra R
Lexmark Optra LX
Lexmark Optra N
Lexmark Optra 1250 MANNESMAN Mannesman Tally MT 645 MINOLTA Minolta Pageworks 20
Minolta Pageworks 81
Minolta 2200 DOESN'T WORK
Minolta Proage4110 NEC NEC 660 DOESN'T WORK
NEC 1260 OKIDATA Okidata 6E DOESN'T WORK
Okidata 10E ?
Okidata Microline 320
Okidata 320 Turbo
Okidata 320
Okidata microline 321
Okidata 340
Okidata 520 Turbo
Okidata 590
Okidata 810 E PORT 3
Okidata 1600
Okidata Okipage 4W
Okidata 16N
Okidata 3410 DOES'T WORK PANASONIC Panasonic KXp-1624 i used lpr
Panasonic KXP-2023
Panasonic KXP-2130
Panasonic KXp-2624
Panasonic KXP-4410
Panasonic KXP-4420
Panasonic KXp-4455
Panasonic 4450
Panasonic KXP-6500 needs driver modification
Panasonic 1695 RICOH Ricoh AP206 SAMSUNG
Samsung QL-85 DOESN'T WORK
Samsung ML-1210 SHARP Sharp AR280
Sharp AL1340 DOESN'T WORK
Sharp AL1600
Sharp 9460 PS STAR THERMAL SONY Sony 100 DOESN'T WORK XEROX Xerox P3 DOESN'T WORK
Xerox docu print P8 DOESN'T WORK
Xerox N17
Xerox N32
Xerox C55
Xerox WORK CENTER 80 DOESN'T WORK
Xerox WORK CENTER 88 DOESN'T WORK
Xerox XD100 printer copier DOESN'T WORK
Xerox XD105F DOESN'T WORK
Xerox XD130DF DOESN'T WORK
Xerox XD155DF DOESN'T WORK
Xerox WORK CENTER 385 DOESN'T WORK
Xerox M750
Xerox XE904UG DOESN'T WORK
Xerox WORK CENTER XL2130F DOESN'T WORK
Xerox 2230 (plotter)
Xerox WORK CENTER XD series DOESN'T WORK ZEBRA Zebra DA402
Rating:
Summary: Really Bad
Review: I am still not able to set up the server with my simple network. My network works well with my Net gear router but can not find the print server.
Rating:
Summary: Great all-in-one product
Review: I bought this because I needed a printer switch. Imagin my suprise when I found a 4 port switch and a print server, all in one unit, for a few dollars more than the printer switch I was looking to buy. As a network Administrator I will be looking forward to see what other products linksys will be producing.
Rating: 
Summary: Problems overcome, flawed but best option
Review: I have an HP LaserJet 6P which I share on my home LAN.
I started with the HP JetDirect... had problems with it not always appearing in NetBeui browse.
I dumped that and got Intel PrintStations. Those worked well with Win98 and WinMe, but then showed Netbeui browse problems under WinXP.
So I tried the Linksys Print Server. I will echo many other complaints... it's not up to the quality of other Linksys products. I could not get it to install properly using the Quick Setup instructions (device name would not show up under Browse!).
I read the manual cover to cover, and decided to fix the IP address using the Bi-Admin utility.
STILL had problems getting the print server to show up under their default PrintServer driver.
THEN I uninstalled that driver and tried to do everything using the IPP (Internet Print Protocol) instead.
SUCCESS! I installed the IPP driver on all my client PC's, and it's been working wonderfully since then.
It shouldn't have been this hard to get it working, but it finally solves my problem and works better than the HP and Intel print servers I tried earlier.
Rating: 
Summary: Okay with some printers
Review: I have both an HP 842C deskjet and a HP laserJet 1200 The 842C works great but the HP 1200 Laser will not work. Tech support not that great for a non-working printer. So now I am stuck with needing a directjet interface for the laser.
Rating:
Summary: Perfroms as advertised
Review: I have used this model with my cable modem (MediaOne, now AT&T) for the past 6 months. Currently running 1.37 version of firmware. Able to securely access (ftp) archival files from my home NT server from work (great for traveling consultants!). Would strongly consider 8 port model, which was introduced 6 weeks after my purchase, for additional QoS features and switching performance.
Rating:
Summary: Linksys Etherfast 10/100 4 Port Switch with Print Server Mod
Review: I print large graphic images (about 10 meg) to a Epson Photo Ex. Using LPT1: parallel port these image complete in under 5 minutes. Recently I purchased a Linksys EFSP42 Printerserver. Printing the same image through the EFSP42 Printserver takes over an hour. I have isolated the problem to the Epson printer driver used. If I use a dumbed down Epson driver from Windows 98 disk (specifically Epson Stylus Color ESC/P2) then the speed through the Linksys EFSP42 PrintServer is comparable to parallel port LPT1-- however image quality is very poor. Linksys technical support first indicated I had a defective unit. I replaced the unit and had the same results. Now I'm told I should return the unit because it is incompatible with my Epson Photo Ex (sure, now tell me after I toss all the packing). Linksys documentation maintains compatibility with Epson but don't believe it!!
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