Alan Beagley wrote:

> We have an HP Officejet all-in-one (color printer/FAX/scanner/copier)
> for which a suitable OS/2 driver is reportedly available.
>

  Please let us all know if you get this working. AFAIK there's very few
All-in-ones that have OS/2 drivers ! Of course this would probably be
print-only and the scanning function would be a separate problem.

>
> At present this machine is serving merely as a standalone FAX/copier
> (except when I hook the notebook computer running Windows to it) and is
> located too far away from any of our computers to connect by USB cable.
> I will certainly relocate the machine temporarily to verify that it
> works with a USB cable and the available driver, but I am wondering what
> would be the best method of connecting it permanently. Apart from
> finding it a permanent home within 15' (max. permitted length of USB
> cable, it seems) of the computer, the possibilities seem to be:
>
> 1. USB extender/repeater;
>
> 2. HP Ethernet Print Server that plugs into the machine (and why is
> there a special model for use with non-Windows computers? Doesn't OS/2
> communicate using the same protocols as Windows?);
>

  Be very careful ! When something say's it's Windows-Only, this usually
means it's a "Host printer" aka "Win-Printer" it relies
on running a Win32
program on the PC to control everything rather than doing it in it's own
processor. These printer will normally not work with OS/2 or Linux.

 The "old" HP Jetdirect, used to work with OS/2 but these were
the parrallel
/ serial port versions not the USB ones.

>
> 3. Linksys/Netgear/Belkin (etc.) print server, either wired or wireless.
>
> Advice please.
>

   I Guess the other option would be an ethernet card in the all-in-one
device, if it supports one - again this would only help with printing not
scanning etc.

>
> -=-
> Alan
>

Cheers/2

Ed.



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