D-Link DPR-1260 RangeBooster G Multifunction Print Server
- Wirelessly Share up to 4 Printers or Multifunction Printers on your Network
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Wireless Print Server, 802.11g 4-USB 2.0 Ports, 108Mbps
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- Product Type – PrintServer
- Warranty – 5 Years
- - Supports Email Printing and FTP Printing
- - Includes LPR Program for Windows 95/98/ME TCP/IP Printing
TRENDnet TE100-P21 is a Fast Ethernet print server that transforms a stand-alone USB or Parallel printer into a shared network printer. The TE100-P21 is compatible with 10Mbps or 100Mbps Ethernet network and it has two USB 2.0 and one Parallel printer port. Network professionals can easily manage the print server using Web Browser and utilize the TE100-P21 to promote productivity in a workgroup environment with low equipment cost.
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Best One I Could Find,
Okay. It isn’t perfect. Installation isn’t as easy as it should be. Instructions aren’t as good as they should be. Some printers work with it, and apparently some don’t.
But go look at the ratings on all the other print servers. You’ll see the same problems. I tried at least three others, and couldn’t get any of them to work. I’ve been able to successfully get this print server to work with an Epson R300 (USB 1.1), a Canon MP830 all-in-one(USB 2, print only), and even a Lexmark Optra T610 laser printer(parallel, with a USB-to-parallel adapter from Belkin).
Printer manufacturers have gone nuts with bi-directional information going back and forth between the printer and the computer. The result: really pretty printer drivers that give you loads of information and options, but depend on the printer being physically connected to the computer. But when you want to easily share that printer with a bunch of other people (especially a bunch of people with laptops), it’s much more difficult. Either everybody has to swap cables, or you buy a print server–and give up the pretty driver screens that pop up to tell you to buy more ink.
The D-Link DPR-1260 is the only one I could find that actually listed compatible printers on the box. They say that they tested with 100 different printers. I believe it. Their competitors don’t seem to have done nearly as much testing.
If you aren’t comfortable setting up a wireless router on your own, or if you needed help installing your printer the first time, don’t buy this. If you can figure out what the d-link is doing by setting ports on your printers to print to an IP address, give it a try.
If the market had some better entries, I probably wouldn’t rate this with 5 stars. But it appears to me to be the cream of the crop.
Update (12/2007): We’ve had it for about a year, and we’ve had trouble a number of times. It repeatedly loses settings. If I could reduce the number of stars, I’d give it two or three.
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|Horrible Setup, Lousy and Incomplete Docs, Prints Well, Scans Not So Well,
Pros:
Combination wireless 4 port USB print server, scanner interface, and single port bridge. So far, the bridge’s single ethernet port has worked flawlessly. Printing, once I got past the configuration nightmare, works great using a Kyocera FS-1010 laser printer and a HP-6110 Office Jet MFP from either Win XP or Linux/CUPS.
Supports scanning for some HP and Epson products, but not all. Check the D-Link web site and users’ web reviews to see if yours is supported. Ditto for printers.
Works with some “problem” printers that other USB print servers either can’t handle at all, or handle poorly. This unit replaced a D-Link DP-311U that had to be reset after every print job on my FS-1010. A SMC 2621W-U wireless print server would not work at all with that particular printer.
Supports WPA and WPA2 encryption. Anything less is really not secure. This has allowed us to retire a separate WEP encrypted wireless system that we used just for printers.
Works with most OS’s, including Linux. Once it is set up, it doesn’t know or care what operating system you are running, at least for printing.
Cons:
Absolutely the worst setup possible. Out of the box it only works with DHCP. No default fixed IP whatsoever, even after a timeout. Wireless encryption must be off. SSID must be “D-Link” This thing’s setup requires that your wireless network conforms to its requirements, instead of the other way around. It is absurd.
Scanning is browser based, not HP or Epson native, and it doesn’t work properly with all browsers. Linux is worse than Windows. IE and Firefox worked OK for me on Windows, Opera did not. Nothing was 100% on Linux. Scanning resolution was less than the scanner was capable of, even at the highest setting. White tone scans to a light blue color.
Completely inadequate documentation. Most of the set up info in this review is either not mentioned, or is buried in useless garbage. Nothing at all on browser javascript requirements for scanning.
User interface inadequate. There is no signal level indicator. You can’t tell how well the unit is receiving, other than the wireless LED id lit. The printer wizard doesn’t always provide an error message when it is unable to function. It just returns and sits there silently. The pages require a manual refresh to update. It does not work properly with all browsers.
No telnet interface. [ If you don't understand that, you won't care; it's a command line thing.
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Other Points Typical Of Wireless Print Servers, Neither Pro Nor Con:
It can’t work with so called winprinters, also known as GDI printers, or host based printers. These cheapies lack internal smarts, and rely on Windows for ALL their processing. That’s not D-Link’s fault.
Ink level reporting and fax functions of multi function devices aren’t supported, as D-Link states.
The USB ports are for printers only. They can not handle other USB devices.
A printer driver has to be installed on every PC on the network for EACH printer connected to the print server, unless there is no need for a particular PC to print to a particular printer. A printer instance (print server connected printer) also has to be created in the Printers and Faxes folder, or its equivalent, on each PC. This can be a lot of work and seems to be frequently misunderstood.
The Basics Of How To Set Up A DPR-1260:
This is the stuff that is either missing or not readily apparent in the documentation.
1. Your network MUST have a DHCP server running. If you don’t know what this means, you almost certainly have one running already.
2. Either set your wireless to unencrypted and broadcast an SSID of “D-Link” (caps matter) OR connect an ethernet cable between your DPR-1260 and your router/hub/switch. I recommend the latter. That way, it’s less likely that you will end up with your print server connected to your neighbor’s unsecure-default-settings D-Link based wireless network, which is entirely possible.
3. If you DID NOT use the cable method, the wireless LED on the unit MUST be on solid to proceed. That indicates that the DPR-1260 has associated with your (you hope) wireless network and can get an IP via DHCP. If not, recheck steps 1 and 2.
4. Follow the Install Guide’s procedure for connecting to the print server, which might work, OR log into whatever box has the DHCP server and note which IP was served to the DPR-1260. Paste the IP into a browser to bring up the print server’s user interface, which will work.
If you have the print server cabled to the network, you should be able leave it there for the rest of the setup (except firmware updates) if you like. Otherwise, connect a PC to the print server’s ethernet port.
5. I strongly recommend that you…
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|Good print server, easy to install.,
After unpacking the print server I was up and printing within 15 minutes on both printers from both computers in my network. It took me a couple of minutes to get the utility “PS-Utility” to see the print server by disabling the Windows firewall and then discovering that I could add the utility to the exceptions list in order to enable to firewall again. I am able to access all printer specific functions through the drivers as if the printers were connected directly to the computer.
It has been a couple of days and I have had no problems.
Configuration:
-Operating System: Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home.
-Router: Linksys WRT55AG
-Print server: TRENDnet TE100-P21
-Dell XPS Gen 3 Desktop connected to router via enet cable.
-Dell Lattitude laptop connected to router via wireless link.
-Printers: Cannon IP5000 to USB1 and HP Laserjet 5L to LPT3 of the print server.
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|Works great after a lot of fuss,
The TE100-P21 Printer Server works great only if you can get passed the installation. The Quick Installation Guide is not helpful especifically when the printers don’t print after following the installation steps via the PS-Wizard. Here are a few things to watch out for:
My router recognized the TE100-P21 right after the plug-in which was a good sign. The PS-Wizard also seems to make it easy to add printers because it detected the printers I had previously installed on the computer, so you can actually pick from the known printer list. After I completely the steps and hit the “print test page” button, nothing happened. This is when the trouble started. After fussing with installing and deleting printers, I could not get the printers to print. In the end, I followed some reviewer’s suggestion to follow the detail instructions from the User Guide (come with the CD), then it made sense to me that I had an IP address conflict. The default IP address 191.168.0.1 doesn’t work but there was no error messages. After I manually changed the IP address to 191.168.1.121 (it can be any IP address within the acceptable range), I got the printers to work. Once I got it working on one PC (Win/XP), repeating the steps on my other two PCs were easy. Now, all three PCs (2000, XP, and Vista) can print to the printers (Samsung MS-2250 and HP 1200) with no problem.
Another lesson learned is that during all the fussing by adding and deleting printers to the TCP/IP port, there is no effect on these changes unless you reboot your PC. So, if you messed up with the initial installation, you should delete everything and start over again with a “factory reset”, then reboot your computer. It should work after that.
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