[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Mark Foster]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Hadley Rich wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:20:03 Mark Foster wrote:
>> I still have to ask 'why' ?
>
> Well it's useful for us at least.

I'm not doubting its usefulness to some. But it doesn't strike me as 
mass-market - at least not yet.

Most end-users struggle to set up a USB connected printer...

>> Most home users are only printing when at least one of their PC's is
>> running.
> Yes but it may be a different PC that's running. Which means that you don't
> have to rely on one PC being running all the time.

I realise this of course. Again, in a home user circumstance, I doubt 
thats much of a problem.

>> Local-Shared printers work across the network fine.
>>
>> Heck, Local-Shared is still used regularly in the corporate environment...
>> someone keen enough to run a Network Printer can buy a JetDirect box or
>> something.  (And you still require a print server, right?)
>
> You can print directly to the printer, just like a business network printer.

Suppose it depends on your business. Certainly in all the corporate 
environments I've worked in, the printer(being a network printer) has 
required a print server for clients to be pointed at anyway..

(And for smaller environments... a workstation was used to locally share 
it!)

I'm not knocking the idea - for the right price, i'd be in with a grin - 
but we have a ways to go before its a large consumer-demand item... ?

(You can buy standalone network print servers can't you? 
http://www.netgear.com/Products/PrintServers/WiredPrintServers/PS101.aspx 
as an example)

Ciao
Mark.