[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Hadley Rich]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:39:32 Mark Foster wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Hadley Rich wrote:
> > 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...
>
> > 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.

Yeah I guess our use is probably a little 'geekier' than your average home 
user, although the geeky home user probably does things similarly to what 
would be useful for a small business.

> > 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)

When I think about it, back when I was doing network admin type stuff we were 
using print servers rather than direct printing. I guess I'm too used to 
working in small businesses where printing directly to the printer is more 
useful than requiring a print server.

Cheers,

hads

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