I'm about to buy an Olympus P-400 Dye Sub printer ... now that the price has dropped almost $300 ... The problem is that it has three forms of direct input, and none of them include ethernet.

It's got parallel, usb, and a pc card slot for the smart cards and memory stick adaptors.

My question is, will a USB to Ethernet converter do what I want it to do in this case? Or is that just for usb host machines with no ethernet, and only a usb interface?

Or, what's the technology behind those ethernet print servers? Are they specific to particular manufacturers, or types of printer (dot matrix, laser, ink jet, etc).

Greg