[WinMac] Re: Sharing Colour Printers

From: Geoff Cross (g.cross[at]icrf.icnet.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 05:21:50 PDT

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    >>Color inkjets are $99 and up. NICs are $10 and up. Why is the
    >>cheapest network color printer around $1,000 and when you add
    >>duplexing and Postscript, it goes up to around $2,000? And all of
    >>the networkable Postscript printers are rated for 20,000 pages a
    >>month!! I have Macs and PCs on my small home LAN and want a cheap
    >>but good color printer of some kind for a reasonable price. I don't
    >>print more than 100 pages/month. Any recommendations??
    >>
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    Dear List,

    Here in sunny Leeds, UK we have a number of solutions to this problem
    most of which fall out of your funds but have found a simple solution
    to allowing cheap access to colour printers to both PC and Mac
    computers on a network.

    We have a number of Epson 1270 A3 colour inkjet printers, these have
    both USB and Parallel ports on them, so what we do is have the
    Parallel port connected to a PC and have it shared from that computer
    then at the same time we have a Mac connected to the USB port and
    have that Mac share said printer. This works great in most locations,
    in ones where it is not possible to have Mac and PC in close
    proximity we have installed JetDirect cards to the printers and
    shared them that way.

    Hope this helps.

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    Cheers,
    

    Geoff Cross

    ICRF Leeds - Macintosh Computer Support

    Telephone: 0113 206 6545 Web Support URL: http://icrf.leeds.ac.uk/intranet/websupport/

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