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Default How to Network a Parallel Port Printer?

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:39:21 -0700, Jim Thompson
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I there any simple way to adapt a parallel port printer to a network?

I'd like to move a printer to a closet and get it out of the way.

...Jim Thompson


You can get little print server boxes for $70. DLink, and others,
make them. If your printer is an HP and it can scan, then you need a
HP Jetdirect print server for $300, or whatever they cost these days,
to support the bidirectional communications.

Mark