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1 RECOMMENDED by 9 people for CONTROL
D-LINK DPR1260 Rangebooster G Multifunction Print Server (790069283475) Print Server
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$106.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from TJB from m, www.circuitcity.com
    4.0 Stars it turned out that i had to manually input the printers in the control panel of windows.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars now i can print from any of 3 laptops, i have control over my printer settings (something the 311u used to make difficult in vista) and i can scan simply without having to carry my pc to the printer
  3. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars my work around was to go into the windows "control panel", and go to the "printers and faxes".
  4. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars to do this, i went to "add printer" somewhere in the control panel window.
  5. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars the problem with using the add printer wizard in the windows xp/vista control panel is that some printer manufacturers choose not to display the printer in the list of available printers, even if the
Positives: Easy To Set Up, Easy To Use, Compact, Remote Management Protocol: HTTP
2 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for CONTROL
IOGear USB 2.0 Print Server, 1 Port (GPSU21) Print Server
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$47.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i went to canon's site at http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=modelinfoact&tabact=downloaddetailtabact&fcategoryid=334&modelid=12804 and downloaded the driver.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars then i noticed (after being clued in by reading someone else's review) that the printer needs to be set to online in the printers control panel.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars to remediate this go to the "control panel", "printers",
  4. from N/A, www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars once you know the ip go into control panel/printer and set up a new network printer.
Positives: Easy To Set Up, Compact, Easy To Use, Remote Management Protocol: SNMP,Telnet
3 RECOMMENDED by 3 people for CONTROL
Linksys PSUS4 Print Server
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$75.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i'm setting up a couple of servers in the network, win 2003 server and sql server 05, and instead of using the controller as a print server, i am going to continue to use this linksys unit as an
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars all i had to do was + for a new printer in the apple control panel/new printer setup.
  3. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars i went into control panel/printers and deleted the printer.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    3.0 Stars from the windows printer control panel, i created a new port of the type standard ip and changed the printer assignment from usb to this new port.
Positives: Easy To Use, Easy To Set Up, Remote Management Protocol: HTTP, Remote Management Protoco: HTTP
4 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for CONTROL
IOGear Multi-Function Print Server, USB (GMFPSU01C) Print Server
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$38.00 Est. at Amazon
  1. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars i went to canon's site at http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=modelinfoact&tabact=downloaddetailtabact&fcategoryid=334&modelid=12804 and downloaded the driver.
  2. from www.amazon.com
    5.0 Stars rather, just select in control panel > printers add a new network printer via tcp/ip and select an ip address that conforms with your network router and you're done!
  3. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars then i noticed (after being clued in by reading someone else's review) that the printer needs to be set to online in the printers control panel.
  4. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars perhaps i`m just a frustrated gamer, but after a few rounds, i quickly used microsoft's control panel to add the printer to my computer (with the firewall active).
  5. from lt.dell.com
    2.0 Stars limited software on control center.
Positives: Compact, Good Reliability, Remote Management Protocol: HTTP, Form Factor: Plug-In Module (External)
5 RECOMMENDED by 2 people for CONTROL
NetGear WGPS606 (WGPS606NA) Print Server
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$68.00 Est. at Amazon
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  1. from N1ven from Scottsdale, AZ, www.circuitcity.com
    5.0 Stars install print drivers on each pc or laptop first (my printers had been running off a domain controller) and go through the 'set up thispc' twice, once for each printer to select the proper driver
  2. from www.amazon.com
    4.0 Stars i had to turn off access control on my router to even find the mac address of the print server.
  3. from www.newegg.com
    5.0 Stars the setup program choked searching for my network until i diabled access control and wep.
  4. from www.newegg.com
    3.0 Stars i made one call to technical support, which connected me to a polite and understandable rep, but the rep was not particularly helpful and the call eventually dropped, though i'm not sure if it was at
Positives: Easy To Use, Easy To Set Up, Compact, Form Factor: External
 
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