Printer Help

[dee5]

My work have just bought a new printer that needs to be connected to our network. All our old printers are connected by a printer cable but this new one doesnt have a printer cable slot, it has to be connected by usb or ethernet cable. Does anyone know if there is an adaptor that can have aprinter cable in one side and have the ethernet in the other. Any help would be really great.

Thanks

[BillyNoMates]

Are you saying that your old printers were individually connected to each PC ?

Now you want to use one shared printer connected to a network ?

If so the best solution would be a print server. They come in many flavours from PCI type cards to stand-alone boxes, wired and wireless.

[dee5]

No they were connected to a printer hub which was connected to the server. The old printers have slots for things that look a bit like scart leads but the new printer only has the ethernet or usb.

[mattie]

There is no easy answer to this question, as it depends on what operating system you are using, what type of network cabling you are using.

The easiest method would be to connect the printer to the server via usb and share it, however, this may not be physically possible.

If you have are using cat 5 or similar for the network cable, and are using TCP/IP as the network protocol, simply connect the printer to your network hub via cat 5 lead/rj45 patch cable and assign it an IP address from the same range that you are using and connect each workstation to the printer by creating a tcp/ip printer port and typing the printer's IP address and installing the appropriate driver.

Hope this helps, and is not too confusing.