Last time, I did a teardown on an eight-port wired GbE switch that refused to remain fully powered up. This time, a print server that refuses to fully power up at all goes under the magnifying glass.

A high-speed Internet connection is no longer a luxury for most businesses; it's a necessity. As a result, many businesses now use broadband cable connections to surf and work over the Web at ...

While USB printers are designed to be used over a direct connection to a single computer, they can not only be shared, but also can be shared wirelessly with a workgroup. There are two different ...

Print servers are the latest thing for small offices and home offices. Wireless print servers that use 802.11b (Wi-Fi) technology are cutting edge. Do you need one? It depends. If you have more than ...

A popular project for a Raspberry Pi single-board computer is to create a wireless print server, one of the many unexpected use cases of an old Raspberry Pi. This is a simple hack to turn a ...

Keyspan USB 2.0 Server for PC and Mac lets network users connect to remote USB devices including printers, scanners, digital cameras and flash-drive memory sticks over Ethernet and WiFi Keyspan is now ...

My most recent writeup, a teardown of an USB-interface wireless print server, reminded me that I'd long pondered giving print servers broader and more conceptual coverage here on the blog. By means of ...

Upstairs in my room I have a USB printer and a Parallel printer that my dad likes to use for printing out things, since his printer prints like crap unless you use it regularly.<BR><BR>I would like to ...

I can't comment on the i960 or WiFi print servers, but be wary of the 1012 and OS X. I've tried HP's drivers, the hpijs drivers and I constantly get "Unsupported Personality: PCL" errors when printing ...