<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Sudev Barar wrote: <blockquote cite="mid774593a20801202253o6689e1dalff6e85a6b24c5081@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 20/01/2008, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com"><microman@cmosnetworks.com></a> wrote: </pre> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> It's this neat little $45 device that plugs right into the parallel port and speaks not just HP JetDirect-ese, but apparently also IPP and LPR (and a few other languages). I used its "HP JetDirect" mode, which is called </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[SNIP] But this would mean running network cables in parallel for all the network printers? </pre> </blockquote> Sure, we run network cables anyway for computers, so it's just like that. This way, you're far less limited in where you can physically put a printer. That is, you're not limited by the length of a USB or LPT cable. Perhaps you're thinking that you'd have to run *both* a Cat 5 cable and an LPT cable? If so, then the answer is no, you don't. You can think of this as a much more brainy sort of "media converter" that turns a printer's traditional Centronics parallel interface into a Cat 5 network jack that speaks TCP/IP. --TP </body> </html>