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Summary: Poor overall documentation and reliability.
Review: After a difficult initial setup caused by the lack of good product documentation the 7127P worked well for 6 months. The 7127P recently died in the middle of a print job and the printer starting endlessly printing mostly blank pages. Now the 7127P is useless. The unit gets a valid IP address but I can only sporadically access its configuration page. PSAdmin only shows the product at certain times and it's now impossible to configure the 7127P. When I restart the print server it works briefly, if at all, and then dies within a few minutes. I upgraded to a Netgear PS101 and it works without a hitch. I recommend you buy that product instead of this one.
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Summary: Rock-solid print server - instruction manual hard to read
Review: At first, I must admit I was a little afraid from other reviews that the PN7127P's instruction manual was difficult to understand. It is difficult to understand (and I'm an experienced network engineer), but once you follow the tips from other reviewers on Amazon.com, it works great and is very easy to install. I would highly recommend the PN7127P. I can now print from any of my 4 computers on a peer-to-peer basis, regardless of operating system and regardless of what other systems are turned on. The print speed is very fast. A little refinement on the instruction manual will make this product perfect. I'm a happy PN7127P owner!
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Summary: Windows Only, Please
Review: Even though the documentation says it works with Mac, I haven't found any brain surgeons or rocket scientists who can help me. I have a Windows 98 machine, a new iMac running OS10.2, and a Powerbook (Firewire) running OS 9.2. Up until now, I have had to plug and unplug the USB cable into the back of my Lexmark Z52 printer to use the various computers. Now I can leave the PN7127P plugged in to the printer when I print from the Windows machine, and remove the whole server to pulg in the USB cable to print from the Mac machines. The print server makes the operation much easier....its size allows me to find it without looking around the back of the printer, and it's so much more ergonomic for plugging and unplugging than that tiny little end on the USB cable!
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Summary: You can get the Newest Driver & Firmware at www.01tech.com
Review: Hawking Technology PN7127P Internet Print Server is an OEM product of P100s model from Zero One Technology in Taiwan. The driver and firmware files you can get from Hawking Technology are old version and you can get the Newest files from OEM manufacturer's homepage, http://www.01tech.com. The latest firmware version is v5.61.13E Build 2058.
The latest driver version is v4.03.19. Have a nice day !
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Summary: Economical reliable print sever
Review: I agree that the documentation is not the best, but it really isn't that tough to set up. Once you get it set up this thing is bulletproof. My print server has been running for several months now with no problems. It is truely a set it and forget it item. This is the perfect addition to any home network.
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Summary: fantastic!
Review: I agree that the manual could stand some work; however, this installed very quickly on both Win2k and Win98 clients. I have the feeling that the lprd interface (needed for Linux and OS/2) might need some help, but I don't have time to mess with it right now. The box came to me with the latest firmware already installed.
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Summary: Solid Product, Terrible Set-up/Documentation
Review: I bought this product so I could network my parallel-only HP 722C deskjet. As others have noted, the documentation is pretty awful and quite confusing. After two calls to tech support (not toll free!!), I found that it's actually a very easy print server to set-up -- far easier than the documentation suggests. And it absolutely works perfectly if you know how to install it. Basically, the trick that is NOT mentioned in the documentation is to install the driver for your printer first. But make sure you DO NOT set it up as a local printer. Essentially, you want the driver on your system but not yet bound to your printer (if that makes sense). Then install the software for 7127P (once you have the server attached to your printer, powered-on and connected to your network). This is the proper way to set up the unit. Then you simply let the Hawking software locate the server (which it does flawlessly), and select the network port, etc. Kudos to Hawking for a building an economical, solid product that has continued to work flawlessly for several months now. But this is not for the techno-ignorant. And the instructions and documentation ....In fact, don't bother following them because you won't get it working. Expect to call tech support and speak with a few morons before you get to someone who can help you. It's also very helpful if you understand the basics of networking protocols, IP, Ethernet networking, etc. You don't need to be an expert, but you do need knowledge that most home users probably don't have. I give it 5 stars for the technology, 1 star for the terrible, awful, obscenely stupid documentation and tech support, for a final rating of 3 stars.
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Summary: A good little print server but...
Review: I had tough time understanding the manual provided. It says the PSAdmin
is for Netware environment but it is required for Windows users as well. If you don't install PSAdmin you can't do jack (like locating printerserver. configuring IP to prt server, etc). The manual's horrible and confusing at best. They didn't mention how to upgrade the firmware either. You just need to move the *.bin file to Printer Monitor or whatever directory where your PSAdmin is installed before doing upgrade. You just need to figure everything out yourself for this one... But I do agree that the printer server itself is solid and reliable if you know what you are doing.
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Summary: Fantastic Product
Review: I have printed to this server from Windows 95, 98, 2000 and xp. It did take some work but I have a Linux firewall setup in my home and just for grins I did get it to print just fine. The other reviews about documentation were correct but the product itself is solid. The IPP(Internet printing works but I didn't see a need for it.
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Summary: Fast and Reliable
Review: I think the Hawking is fantastic. Has taken the drain off my computer/server, freeing it up to do much more work. Printing starts almost immediately. Only draw back is the Epson status monitor cannot tell me how much ink is left in the printer attached to the Hawking.
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