No more hiding in the server room

HP discontinued 170x External Jet Direct

What is everyone else using for those older printers that need to be on the network?

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Permalink Reply by Graycat on February 10, 2010 at 9:19am

For the very few cases where we need an older printer on the network, I use a print server like the ones offered by Netgear. I've found the bigger ones (ie: designed for multiple printers) to be much more reliable than the smaller "single printer" offerings.

Oh and the wireless ones are just useless in an enterprise setting! :) lol

Thinking out of the box some you could try setting up an old PC as a print server. The usual flavours of Windows offerings would do the job if you don't have a spare server licence floating about. Alternatively I've seen lots of articles regarding the use of *nix on an old box to do just this.