Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
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Dunno, but you could share her printer over the network and print directly from your computer.


Perhaps... if I were smart enough to figure out how to make the network function. SWMBO has a Macintosh, I run Windows Vista (to my regret) and the differences in religion are hard for me to work with.

Even if I could get the computers talking to each other, could I print to her printer? It is a USB printer, not Ethernet.

tanstaafl.


Fixable for $60 assuming other stuff is networked:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122137

Tho' I won't let any relatives buy a printer without ethernet.

(edit: oh and sure you could share the printer over the network from a single computer but I hate that more -- making printing depend on the proper function of the hosting computer == bad, I think. Dedicated print server less trouble over time.)


Edited by jimhogan (13/09/2008 01:23)
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