Iogear USB Print Server

Iogear USB Print Server
by IOGEAR

List Price: ~~$89.95~~
Category: CE
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Manufacturer: IOGEAR
Audio: English (Original Language)
Model: GPSU01
Product features:

Easily connect your USB printer to a network
Allows multiple computers to share one USB printer on the network
Print from any computer on your network or from across the Internet
10/100 Mbps auto-sensing
Compatible with Windows 98 SE, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Mac OS 8.6 or Later, Novell, Unix/Linux

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Customer Review: good product, so-so manual, poor tech support.
Summary: 4 Stars

the print server works reasonably well. the manual that comes with the unit (you can download it from the web) is poorly written and pretty much useless. the customer support is non-existent. i emailed them with a question (the name for their IPP queue) 2 weeks back and i am still waiting for their reply. i found the answer by doing a google search.

for those who want to use IPP or LPR with this unit (primarily for people on Unix/Linux) the queue name is lp1. this info is nowhere in the manual.

also this product is identical to the hawking technology product H-PS1U. for those on linux/unix who don't want to initially configure the unit via windows GUI (that ships with the product cd) can download the hpsutil for H-PS1U from the web (this utility is not distributed by Hawking Technology but was instead written by someone at unixwiz.net.. do a google search). you can configure this unit using the hpsutil perl script from Linux/Unix (even windows if you have perl installed) command line over the UDP port 20560.

overall the unit has worked well. i have a HP officejet 7130 connected to it and it works quite well. the officejet 7130 is a multifunction printer but from what i understand it won't work with many other multifunction models. i also have two cheaper lexmark printers and they worked fine during initial trials.

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Description of Iogear USB Print Server

IOGEAR GPSU01 - This palm size 1-port USB Print Server allows any networked computer to share a USB printer. No need to place the printer right next to the computer! Send print jobs as easily to a printer in another country as to a printer in the same office Why send a degraded fax image when you can print an original at the destination! Compatibility - Windows 98SE > XP, Novell ( iBindery / NDS ), Mac OS 8.6+, Unix / Linux

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