[olug] Network print servers

[Kevin]

IIRC, that printer is a network-capable printer. Set it up with a static IP,
then plug the USB cable into the computer that does photo printing. Set up
any other box to print to the static IP as a network printer.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:08, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> We're finally upgrading my wife's 9-yr-old WinXP desktop to a new Win7
> laptop.  The old XP box has been our home's print server, since Canon
> printers don't play nice with Linux (not for photo printing, anyway).
> Since the new laptop won't be plugged into the lan 24x7, I need to find
> another way to allow my Ubuntu desktop and Fedora laptop to print to
> our Canon iP6600D.  It's been several years since I've had to mess with
> printing under Linux.
>
> When printing photos from the new Win7 laptop, we need to be able to
> use the Windows print drivers, since they're the only ones that really
> work reliably.  Is it possible to hook the printer to my Ubuntu desktop
> in some sort of passthrough mode so that Win7 can still use its own
> drivers, while still allowing the direct-connected Ubuntu & WLAN-connected
> Fedora boxes to print as well (not necessarily photo quality)?
>
> How well do network print controllers work for this sort of environment?
> I know a 802.11g network (over which my wife would be sending her photo-
> quality print files) is a whole lot slower than USB2, but other than
> that, would it work better to just put the printer directly onto the
> wired network with such a device?  Any recommendations on brand/model?
>
> Would I be better off just telling my wife to unplug the printer's USB
> cable from my Ubuntu desktop and plug it into her Win7 laptop whenever
> she wants to print anything?  She'll obviously be sitting next to the
> printer when that happens anyway.  Then the linux & Windoze boxen wouldn't
> have to know anything about each other.
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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