Sharing Printers

[jekennedy]

I have an sbc wireless router; wireless laptop; desktop connected to router via ethernet cable; & TWO printers connected to the desktop.
Problem: sending stuff to either printer from the laptop is tiiiiimmmmeeee consuming (takes a long time to buffer). Laptop is older model with only 702 mb of space left on the hard drive.
Is there a "printer router" with RAM for buffering that I can connect to the sbc router and have the two printers connected to the printer router instead. OBJECT: to speed things up.

IS POSSIBLE???????

GOT MY ANSWER ---- THANKS!

 

[Tmagic650]

What Operating System is on both computers? XP?

 

[N3051M]

Keep this in mind: If the laptop is sending the signal slow then its gonna be slow overall....

The device you're looking at is something like a NAS (with USB connections for those external HDDs, but you can almost put anything on it)

Or a print server: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...scription=Print+server&Submit=ENE&N=0&Ntk=all

 

[jekennedy]

Thanks Techspot Addict. Placed an order today.

 

[DelJo63]

Laptop is older model with only 702 mb of space left on the hard drive.

lack of free space is always an issue for performance.

use the CP->admin tools->Disk Mgmt to see the HD
right click on its name and use DISK CLEANUP botton to toss the old updates
and temp files.

 

[Tmagic650]

Hey jobeard, I used to live in Simi Valley just over the hill on 118 from you!