Which wireless print server will work?

[brainiac]

I've got a Minolta QMS Magicolor and I want to use a wireless print server with it. I tried an Airlink and it didn't even recognize the printer. I then tried a Hawking. It recognized the printer but that was all it did. Any ideas?

 

[Sniper]

are you sure you installed and setup the printer server correctly, one little thing can cause it not to work.

What I'd suggest until you get it figured out that you use a PC as the server and share it with the rest of the computers.

 

[brainiac]

I followed the directions word for word on both servers. On the airlink I tried 3 different printers. It acually worked on an epson c84, not on an epson r200 or the minolta. The hawking sort of worked on the Epson r200. It spit out sheet after sheet without printing anything. The Minolta was recognized by the server but that as far as it went.

 

[brainiac]

After more googling it looks like a linksys might work.

 

[syngod]

Either a Linksys or 3Com OfficeConnect print server should work.

 

[brainiac]

Either a Linksys or 3Com OfficeConnect print server should work.

I tried a linxsys and it got as far as connecting to the printer but still to print. I went to 3com's web site and saw my printer in the compatability list! Woohoo. Now I've got to try and find one. All of my usual sources don't stock it.

 

[brainiac]

I tried a linxsys and it got as far as connecting to the printer but still to print. I went to 3com's web site and saw my printer in the compatability list! Woohoo. Now I've got to try and find one. All of my usual sources don't stock it.

Woohoo not. I was looking at 3Com's incompatability list.
After going through probably half a dozen servers I stumbled upon a detail written in the spec.s of a print server I was going to try next. Does not support GDI printers. In other words, to make the printers cheaper most of the processing is left to the computer. Minolta 2300w is a GDI a.k.a host-based printer. The only server that Minolta supports is a SEH Baseline 650 (not wireless) Solution: Use a dedicted computer with a wireless net. card.