[nzlug] Being a lazy burger....

[Nick Rout]

On Monday 02 April 2007 20:20, Mark Foster wrote:

> > hp PSC models sometime after mine (now why was mine cheap when i bought
> > it?) have wireless abilities.
>
> I still have to ask 'why' ?
>
> Most home users are only printing when at least one of their PC's is
> running.

yes my wife is using her computer as I read your message. She is wanting to 
print. The printer is attached to my desktop, which is switched off. (Yes I 
should attach it to one of the always-on servers, thats another story). If it 
was stand alone on the network, the problem wouldn't arise.

>
> Local-Shared printers work across the network fine.
>

yes, when "local" is "on"