I have two laptop computers at home and they are connected using a wireless network. I want to buy a wireless printer and share it. Since both laptops are not going to be always in the network I wonder if wireless printers have some kind of “server” feature so I don’t need to configure one of the laptops as a print server.
I’m not 100% positive about this as I’ve not used a wireless printer with suse, just windows, but I would imagine each laptop could connect to a wireless printer independently of each other
On 2009-01-13, eliezerfigueroa <eliezerfigueroa@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
> I have two laptop computers at home and they are connected using a
> wireless network. I want to buy a wireless printer and share it. Since
> both laptops are not going to be always in the network I wonder if
> wireless printers have some kind of “server” feature so I don’t need to
> configure one of the laptops as a print server.
A network printer, wireles or not, is a printer that is directly connected
to the network. They allways work as a print server, just not a print
server that handles the drivers for the printer.
If you had a computer that was allways switched on, you could’ve configured
cups to act as a print server for your printer. The advantage: the other
computer could copy the drivers/settings from that machine.
Since your computers must be independant, you’ll have to configure the
printer on each laptop, each managing it’s own individual driver, both
talking to the printer’s “server” using the IPP or LPR protocol.
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Thanks a lot!
If each computer will manage it’s own driver what will happen when both computers try to print at the same time?
On 2009-01-13, eliezerfigueroa <eliezerfigueroa@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
> If each computer will have to configure the driver what will happen when
> both computers try to print at the same time?
There is no such thing as exactly the same time.
The second to ask for a print will be put on hold.
Some printers will keep the second job on hold untill the first is
completely done. Others will allready charge the second in their memory.
The second method is slightly faster, but can get messy if there’s a problem
with the first job.
In short: don’t worry about it, the printer handles this for you.
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Thanks a lot! I do appreciate your answers!