Printer Question

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 12:32:49 Phil did opine:

> On 28/08/13 11:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 August 2013 21:46:13 Phil did opine:
> >> On 27/08/13 21:30, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >>> On 08/26/2013 08:15 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> >>>> Looking at their web site I see  no inkjet printers. I have no
> >>>> experience
> >>>> 
> >>>   > with laserjets. How do they work with long (weeks/months)
> >>>   > periods of inactivity?
> >> 
> >> I bought a HP Laserjet Pro 100 colour printer because HP printers are
> >> well supported under Linux and I was sick of throwing good money away
> >> on dried up ink cartridges. I use my printer perhaps once a month
> >> and it hasn't missed a beat.
> >> 
> >> The printer works well with a USB and Ethernet connection but it's
> >> not discoverable via my wireless network, not even under Windows. So
> >> I suspect that my router (a Technicolor brand) is not compatible.
> >> Otherwise I'm happy with my printer.
> > 
> > Many routers do NOT by default allow the wifi radio access to your
> > local network, mainly because that is a security hole a drive by
> > hacker can
> 
> The instructions say to simply press the WPS button on the router and
> then, within two minutes, a connection with the printer will be
> established.
> 
> I can live without a wireless connection but it would have saved me
> running an Ethernet cable to the printer.

Would the radio connection not be considerably slower than the cat5?  Its 
what, 20 megabit at best.

I've not tried it here so I am genuinely curious, with anything but USB2 
which is fast enough to strain my quad core phenom.  I'd assume the cat5, 
100 megabit here would be marginally faster than USB2, but the radio would 
be noticeably slower.

Can others comment?

And if I do the WPS thingy on a dd-wrt router after enabling the printers 
radio, how would I see it in the localhost:631/printers menu's?.  But after 
typing that, I find there doesn't appear to be any WPS support in dd-wrt.  
So its a moot question to ask about the radio in my case.

Ethernet OTOH, seems easy enough to setup, so lets see if cups can use it.  
Yup, but a test page does not a novel print, so we'll see how it works when 
I do need to print something.  So now I have 2 paths to that printer.  What 
is interesting is that cups, when told to search for printers, found 5 
copies of it.  So I am wondering what the other copies are?  At least 2 
were "tcp_local".  Someday I need to buy me a 16 port gigabit switch. 8 is 
not enough even with additional hubs out in the shop. ;-)  This keeping up 
with the Jones's is running me ragged.  The shop lashup could be simplified 
if I did buy a 16 port, and took this 8 port 100M out there.

Decisions...

Cheers, Gene
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