Cisco-Linksys PSUS4 PrintServer for USB with 4 Port Switch
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Customer Review: Works over the VPN and local network
Summary: 5 Stars
To install the print server successfully, you will need to install your printer driver on your computers first. Before the printer driver trying to search for the printer, just exit from the printer driver installation. That will have a copy of printer driver on your machine.
To install on the local network, on the first computer install the complete print server setup utility so that you can set it to a static IP address. It will installed easily, since you already have the printer driver installed on the last step.
On other computers, you only need to install the print server driver, not complete setup utility. Once that is installed, you will be able to get the printer working.
Another method can be used for printing over VPN or on the local network, that is by using Windows install local printers with automatically detect plug and play printer box checked. It will say no printer found. Click on the next, it will allow you to select "Create new port", screw down to select "standard tcp/ip port". In that new window, specify the IP address of the print server, then select LPR in next window. Then select the proper printer driver you installed on the first step.
You are done! What a great product, I wish Linksys put these steps in their user manual, so that many people would know how to install it.
Customer Review: Stay Far, Far Away
Summary: 1 Stars
Save yourself some aggravation and troubleshooting, and just move on. This is a pretty awful, dated piece of equipment (we are in July of 2010), and there's absolutely no reason to but it. The evil thing, according to the Linksys site, does not set-up with Win7, is really finicky about the printers it acks, and Linksys seems to have abandoned it. Before you buy it, go to the Linksys "support" site, and look it up. Click on the faq's and see what turns up: it's totally derelict. There is no support, few answers, no new firmware (it's on 1.0), no new software, and it's pretty much a proprietary piece of crap. It will be not doubt shortly gone, as soon as they dump the remaining inventory.
I'm not a total idiot people, I have degrees in EE, ICS, a Cisco CCNA and A+, and I can't get the crappy thing to work with my Canon S9000. I have a Netgear parallel port print server that is over 5 years old that works great with Win7 64 bit, no problems, but this piece of junk is just an expensive 4 port switch. As a 100 mps switch, fine, but as a USB interface to a network, look elsewhere. Either buy a new printer, or buy a different interface, because this is just a dead end. I don't usually write these reviews, but "Linksys" has been bugging me no end lately, trading on the "Cisco" pedigree, and offering up lame-ass software.
Customer Review: Excellent and Easy to setup
Summary: 5 Stars
I have completely no problem on installing and setting it up. I have a HP240 multimedia inkjet printer and 6 pcs, 5 connected to the hub and one laptop is wirelessly connected. I set up and installed this server by just following the instructions came in the box. After I installed the software driver, it immediately recognized my printer. The only thing I feel bothering is that every PC has to setup in order to recognize the printer. The setup is not difficult because once you installed the software in one PC, the print server driver is already available for every PC, all you have to do is to use the 'Add Printer' function of Windows to add the printer, using the driver that is already installed (it will show up in the drop down list). There is a trick when doing this. When you start the Add Printer function, it will keep asking you to provide a place to find the printer driver (which we need to use the driver that we have already installed, not the OEM driver), but you have no way to get that because it is not in the other PC. All you have to do is to use any dirver that Windows provides. After the printer is added,
go back and modify it, locate the driver that we have already installed from the drop down list. That is it. So far I have no problem in using my printer from different PCs. Good price and good product.
Customer Review: Inferior product
Summary: 1 Stars
I am far from a novice, but the unit was hard to set up because the wizard wouldn't find it at first. I then managed not to use the wizard and set it up manually.
I then found out that it does not work with my new Konica Minolta 2400W laser printer. The USB led doesn't light at all after I insert the USB cable. I tried different cables and different computers to no avail. It does work with my retired Epson C40UX, though.
The firmware in my unit is the latest one (6033) as of April 2005.
Linksys should either make a better product or, if not possible for technical reasons, warn costumers about incompatibilities. Interestingly, Konica Minolta does recommend a print server for my printer, the "SEH IC103 USB Pocket Print Server". It is not impossible, then.
I am now stuck with a US$60 4-port switch that I don't need. I would return the lemon but since I bought it in the US and live overseas, this is not an option.
I've had only good experiences with Linksys hardware before, including routers, access points and WiFi PCMCIA cards. This inferior product was a nasty surprise. Maybe now that Linksys is the "poor cousin" to Cisco, one should look for another brand that really wants to do their best for their costumers.
Customer Review: Works fine with both Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux
Summary: 5 Stars
I installed the Linksys PSUS4 PrintServer yesterday for my home network consisting of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux boxes.
The installation for Linux was actually easier than for the Vista boxes which needed the installation for an additional driver coming with the installation CD.
The quick start manual is a bit confusing on how to add to printer under Windows. The last step of the installation did not work for me or I must have misread or misunderstood something. I then tried to add the printer manually through Windows Add Printer function. There I was kind of confused again. I first thought that I have to choose the "Add Network Printer" option which turned out to be the wrong choice (since this is a network printer, it seems the natural choice to me). What you need to select is the "Add Local Printer" option since the installation creates a local port to the print server. Besides that confusing part of how to connect the printer I had no problems with the installation.
Printing from both Vista and Ubuntu works fine so far. I previously had problems printing from my Linux boxes while the printer was connected to a Windows box. I am very happy with the new set-up.