Product DescriptionThe Linksys Wireless-G PrintServer with Multifunction Printer Support lets you connect a multifunction USB printer directly to your network, eliminating the need to dedicate a PC to print sharing chores. Using a PrintServer frees up your 'print share PC' so you don't have to leave it on all the time. It also removes the printing bottleneck, and sets your PC free to do more useful work.The PrintServer is compatible with most USB multifunction printers, and allows full access to printing, faxing, scanning, and copying functions. Like any print server, users on the network can print anytime. The other functions are treated a little differently - any user can request access to one of the other functions, and get exclusive use of that function until his task is complete.Connect the PrintServer directly to your network by 10/100 Ethernet cable, or wirelessly at up to 54Mbps via Wireless-G. The wireless option lets you put your printer wherever you want to, without having to run cables. Whichever way the PrintServer is attached to your network, both your wireless and wired PCs will have access to it, and the printer it's connected to. And if you don't use wireless for general networking in your office, you can still use the Wireless-G connection in ad-hoc mode to print from visiting Wireless-G and Wireless-B PCs.Your wireless data is protected by up to 128-bit WPA-PSK encryption. A user-friendly Setup Wizard makes installation easy, the compact case fits anywhere, and the big print buffer handles even large graphics-intensive print jobs. Let the Linksys Wireless-G PrintServer with Multifunction Printer Support bring efficiency to all your home office tasks.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Not worth the money.
The setup wizard did not work with Vista, which required me to perform the setup manually. Most often, I need to power cycle the print server before using, otherwise sheets and sheets of garbage characters will be printed rather than the job I sent. I spoke to someone that has the same print server, that when used wired, the print server is much more reliable in its operation.
Rating: - An impractical overpriced toy
I got this device because i had multiple PCs, and laptops used at home. I did not want to power up the PC connected to the printer each time i wanted to print something from another one. However, i found that the software needed to run with the print server to be a bit un-practical. You first need to connect to the print server, then do the printing or the scanning. Also, the scanning software that came with the HP multifunction printer did not work with this print server. I had to use windows TWAIN ... Read More
Rating: - Great Print Server
My older Linksys print server died after a couple years and I decided to replace it with this one. I also have a Linksys wireless router so I decided to stick with another Linksys product. The setup was very easy installing this on all three (3) computers: a Dell Desktop PC upstairs with Windows XP with the printer, a Gateway laptop with Windows XP, and a Toshiba laptop with Windows Vista. The printer is a Canon i860 color printer and is not a multifunctional printer (fax, scan, etc.)
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Rating: - Does not work with Vista
Wow, what a piece of $#!%.. It's been a long that I have seen not only a poor product, but the support is worse! It loaded on the XP system and I went on to load a laptop running Vista, guess what, error is OS is not supported. FAQ's, and linksys's VIRTUAL CHAT would pull up 15 answers that were useless... Four hours wasted on a product that does not work...I'm sending it back...
Rating: - It might work
Linksys utility can not find my print driver and won't set it up. Spent a long time on the phone with technical support giving personal information (and repeating it several times) just to be transferred to someone who could help me; but not actually. Instead I was placed on hold for 15 minutes and then hung up on TWICE!!!!
Horrible customer service. Poor software. Product never did work, even with tweaking the network and printer settings.
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- Not worth the money.
- Great Print Server