Kue2
Fri Mar 28 08:29:45 PDT 2008
Hi Charlie
My wife can print through the linksys router. But cannot use the other
features of the printer.
She has a laptop with Vista 32 installed
I found a printer server(SX-2000WG) SX-2000WG
that's wireless & also supports the AIO Kodak
printer.
http://www.silexamerica.com/sx-2000wg.html
This print server(SX-2000WG) has an installation cd that supports XP. I
doubt it will run in Vista 64.
The Kodak printer is connected to my desktop via usb cable. I have a duel
boot system(XP-32 XP-64 Vista-64.)The Kodak printer software & drivers
support all of these operating systems.
My question is if I load the print server software in XP32 & use a thumb
drive to transfer setup to Vista 64(if this is possible),will my wife's
laptop be able to use (see) the SX-2000WG when I am in Vista 64? Will she
then have full functions. This is what I am trying to determine.Most of my
time is spent in Vista 64.
ote in message
news:7C330063-7B6B-4674-8A51-3BC42EA9F51A@microsoft.com...
> The print part is easy - just about anything should work, assuming you
> have printer drivers for your printer. And here again, let me repeat what
> I've said rather more than once. Buy printers that are not "host based
> printing" or some other equivalent phrase that means you are dependent on
> the PC to do the work. If your printer has PCL or PostScript support, then
> you don't care what OS you have, you'll be able to print. If your printer
> doesn't have its own engine, but depends on your PC to do all the work,
> then you will always be dependent on your OEM to provide software for the
> specific OS you have. And as we've seen time and time again, they don't
> always come through.
>
> The same mantra holds for "all in one" printers - the requirements for
> printing are very, very different than those for scanning. And there is a
> very high likelihood that you won't have OS independence with the scanning
> portion. You will NEED to have a driver running on the PC, and full
> support from your OEM. Further, most inexpensive scanners know nothing
> about tcp/ip, they expect to be communicating via USB or SCSI or even
> (shudder) a parallel port. So expecting them to work at the end of a
> wireless network is just not in the cards. You can likely get the printing
> to work - the methods and functionality for tcp/ip printing has been
> around for years and years and years and is completely OS independent -
> LPR/LPD, or the newer Windows tcpip printer options. In either case, it's
> easy to connect a printer to a wireless print server and get it to work.
> But there is no equivalent for scanners.
>
> --
> Charlie.
>
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>
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>
>
> "Kue2" <Kue2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23UavO2DkIHA.4076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Are there any Vista 64 compatible print servers? I need a print server
>> that will give my printer (Kodak 5500) full function (copy scan fax)
>> wirelessly.
>> Any one using one in Vista Ultimate?Details please.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Hugh
>