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Another USB to network printer conversion
Authored by: rkchang on Mar 17, '03 09:20:26PM

I use the same Hawking print server and absolutely love it! I actually find it incredibly useful to share my usb printer (HP PSC 2110x) between my Win2k desktop, which I use only on occasion, and my iBook (hooked together via a Linksys wireless router). Given that my Windows desktop is fairly slow, I find it incredibly annoying having to turn it on just to print out something, and I guess I'm just too lazy to move from my living room to my office to plug my iBook and printer together. As far as I've read, Airport Extreme does NOT allow print sharing with non-OS X machines (does this exclude Linux machines too?). Given most alternatives, this is VERY affordable (a little more than $50) and convenient (very short setup time) option.

Now, if I could just find a way to share the scanning capabilities of my HP PSC...

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