Debracom
Newbie level 5
hello everybody
I am new to this forum and hope that some of you may be able to help me. I will be hanging a lot around this forum and try to help out other where I can.
I am a student from Belgium intercommunication systems, and am addicted to security (codelocks, fingerprints, etc..) and do a lot of borland C++ Builder programming.
Though I have a problem. At my house we print a lot. We used to have a laser printer with parrallel connection, and my router had an embedded printserver with also a parrellel connection. Since the printer is broken we bought a new one with USB, parr. isn't available anymore here and I was thinking of switching to USB anyway. But now my computer has to be on the whole day (I connected & shared the printer on my computer).
So now I'm thinking of making something where you can connect a little PCB to the router (10/100base-tx) and gives it through to my USB printer.
But I really don't know where to even start . Maybe an alike project has been made already, maybe it's impossible because the drivers of each printer are different, I don't know.
any suggestions and/or solutions?
thank you
I am new to this forum and hope that some of you may be able to help me. I will be hanging a lot around this forum and try to help out other where I can.
I am a student from Belgium intercommunication systems, and am addicted to security (codelocks, fingerprints, etc..) and do a lot of borland C++ Builder programming.
Though I have a problem. At my house we print a lot. We used to have a laser printer with parrallel connection, and my router had an embedded printserver with also a parrellel connection. Since the printer is broken we bought a new one with USB, parr. isn't available anymore here and I was thinking of switching to USB anyway. But now my computer has to be on the whole day (I connected & shared the printer on my computer).
So now I'm thinking of making something where you can connect a little PCB to the router (10/100base-tx) and gives it through to my USB printer.
But I really don't know where to even start . Maybe an alike project has been made already, maybe it's impossible because the drivers of each printer are different, I don't know.
any suggestions and/or solutions?
thank you