Iogear USB Print Server

 (20 customer reviews)

I went with this print server over the Netgear one due to it being less then the Netgear while offering the same features. The setup of the print server is pretty easy and straight forward but there is one thing to look out for. If you are running any type of software firewall on your pc then the print server most likely won't be found. If you are running the built in internet firewall on Windows XP,the server won't be found. If you disable the firewall then the admin software will find the server. I sent a email to their tech support asking for the port number that I could open up on the firewall. Their tech support replied in a resonable time with the port number but the server still can't be found with the firewall active. One other note. The box states that the print sever works with Apples OS X. This is only true if your printer is a post script printer. I was able to easily have OS X find the print server but the print jobs came out garbled. Other print servers of this...Read more

the print server works reasonably well. the manual that comes with the unit (you can download it from the web) is poorly written and pretty much useless. the customer support is non-existent. i emailed them with a question (the name for their IPP queue) 2 weeks back and i am still waiting for their reply. i found the answer by doing a google search. for those who want to use IPP or LPR with this unit (primarily for people on Unix/Linux) the queue name is lp1. this info is nowhere in the manual. also this product is identical to the hawking technology product H-PS1U. for those on linux/unix who don't want to initially configure the unit via windows GUI (that ships with the product cd) can download the hpsutil for H-PS1U from the web (this utility is not distributed by Hawking Technology but was instead written by someone at unixwiz.net.. do a google search). you can configure this unit using the hpsutil perl script from Linux/Unix (even windows if you have perl installed)...Read more

Got it working half an hour after I took it out of the box, BUT on the second time around. Turns out the first one I received was defective--wouldn't pick up an IP address nor broadcast its MAC. You need to launch the included PSAdmin utility to initially see the unit. The initial config. is not to use DHCP, which doesn't make sense. Anyway, after assigning it a static IP, it was up and running. Noticed the Network Print Port was not supported in XP Home, though Standard TCP/IP (LPR) is; in Win2k, I was able to use the Network Print Port. 3 stars because of poor documentation and web support, plus questionable quality control. Hope this helps.