OzCableguy.com - USB Printer Compatibility Information

USB Print servers are a common source of complaint due to compatibility issues with various printers. Below I have compiled a compatibility list of many print servers using feedback from owners, google and reports from manufacturers.

Please email me with your experiences with a USB Print Server, especially if it's not on the list below. There's a real lack of information about USB print servers out there and it's obviously a mammoth task for a manufacturer to be able to test even a small number of the available printers. Hopefully when this page has enough data it will be able to assist potential purchasers before they fork out the dollars and learn any bad news.
I need to know the make and model of your printer, the make & model of print server and whether or not it worked, kind of half-worked or whatever.

Multifunction Printers

Be aware: Barely a day goes by where I don't hear a tale of woe about a Print Server and a multifunction printer, so we can count most of those out from the word go. If an MFC is networkable, the manufacturer will give specific mention about this somewhere and also explain how and what else it needs to be networkable. Sometimes the printer part of an MFC can be shared using a generic printer driver for the model, but forget about sharing scanning or fax etc.

David sent me this link regarding Brother multifunction printers but the same principle applies pretty much to all MFCs unless the manufacturer states they are "network ready" or with some other similar wording. (Bear in mind this sometimes means some other hardware or a software license may be required to make it actually work on a network)

Alex reports another issue with some antivirus/internet security applications: "Some like McAfee (and CA to a degree) have major issues with HP All in Ones. McAfee installs a re-director that essentially kills off the AIO being able to scan or fax across the network. USB is fine, but connecting via Ethernet (wired or wireless) is a disaster. This means you cant use the menu on the AIO to initiate scans and you cant use the pc to initiate scans or faxing. CA has a work around where you have to go in and add all the HP apps and allow them. McAfee didn’t offer that because of the re-direction service (last used it in 2007 but believe architecture is still the same). Had some issues with Norton 360 and a few others with this too.

Another one is Printer Status Monitors. These rarely work from behind a print server (except if designed by the printer manufacturer for that particular printer) but the printer will usually still print fine in spite of it.

Also reader Luke reports a difficulty with Host Based Printers and Print Servers - "I recently researched the possibility of using a print server (USB and other), to connect my Lexmark E210 to my network. After many hours of research I found that it is not possible to connect the Lexmark E210 to ANY print server, as it is a host based printer."
Update: Mark reports that Luke's info is "not quite correct. The Draytek Printer FAQ explained what to do (with Draytek Print Servers at least). Anyway my E210 prints a treat. I think that to get around Luke's problem he should first install the printer physically on a local port, install the software then change the port to the Draytek's LPR port."
See also Wolfgang's info at fuschlberger.net.

See also comment at TechRepublic regarding GDI printers.

Quick links -

Alloy PS5010
Airport Extreme Basestation
Belkin F1UP0001
Belkin F5L009au
Buffalo LPV3-U2
Canon Silex Pricom C-6200U
Canon Silex Pricom C-6700WG
D-Link DI-524UP
D-Link DI-624S
D-Link DI-704UP
D-Link DI-724P+
D-Link DI-824VUP+
D-Link DIR-825
D-Link DP-101+
D-Link DP-301P+
D-Link DP-301U
D-Link DP-311U
D-Link DP-311P
D-Link DP-G310
D-Link DP-G321
D-Link DPR-1260
D-Link DNS-323
Draytek
Edimax PS-1206MFG
LevelOne FBR-1409TX
LevelOne FPS-3003
LevelOne WBR-3402A
Linksys PSUS4
Linksys WPS54G
Linksys WPS54GU2
Linksys WPSM54G
Minitar MN54G4R
Netgear FWG114P
Netgear PS121
Netgear WGPS606
US Robotics USR5461
US Robotics USR7500
Viewsonic WPS-100

Note: Some of the links I have on the printer models below will go to various sites where people have reviewed the product and made a comment about compatibility with their printer. Many of these sites are overseas retail shops and I am not trying to indicate that these are where to buy the products. As a matter of fact I recommend that anyone within Australia shopping for products of this nature should stick with Australian retailers to avoid hassles with service and warranty claims and to get the correct power pack.

Alloy PS5010
	Works	Doesn't work

Airport Extreme Basestation
Manufacturer' List	Works	Doesn't work
	Brother HL2040: Matt reports "Wireless Access via Bonjour on OS-X 10.4 and Bonjour for Windows on Windows XP Have used both Netgear WGR614 and Airport Extreme (n) wireless routers". Canon i865 Canon i9000 & i455: Nigel reports "Both usually work without trouble, with the two exceptions... The i455 was slow to the point of useless printing pictures from an old G3 400 PowerBook wirelessly. It did OK with a direct USB cable. The i9000 sometimes stops printing 3/4 through high res A3 prints. The printer dialogue box says 'sending data' but the printer just sits there, stalled. Sometimes you can print it again and it will go through fine, sometimes not. I think it may have something to do with ink levels in the tanks, but I haven't really nailed that one." Canon PIXMA 4000: Mal reports "I plugged the printer into the Airport, installed the latest PIXMA 4000 drivers from the website, installed Apple�s Rendezvous for Windows Preview 4 and then ran the Rendezvous printer sharing wizard straight from the desktop. The hardest part was installing the drivers for the printer. It works perfectly fine with my P4 2.8 and my older Athlon 1GHz box." Canon Pixma ip4300: Brian reports no worries with the Canon S530D with Airport Express configured as a USB print server but had difficulties with the ip4300 at first. The solution came in changing the TCP/IP port to 9101 from 9100 gathered from the information at this site. Various officially unsupported HP printers	Canon s9000: Sven reports "On a Airport Express server from an XP machine the Canon s9000 won't print. Only from the config you can clean the printing heads."
Belkin F1UP0001
Manufacturer' List	Works	Doesn't work
See also this list (I have no idea why there's two lists that are slightly different)	Canon IP3000: Thomas reports that it works fine. Canon MP780: Richard reports "I am using a Belkin F1UP0001 with 2 printers, a Canon IP3000 which you already know works well (but no monitor) and a Canon MP780 multi function centre which works fine as a printer, but as your �be aware� states scanning etc. is unavailable." Canon Pixma iP4500: Andy reports "works fine under Vista (Business) and XP. No issues other than the "No bi-directional support" warning. Just remember to turn bi-directional support off in the General tab of the printer's properties dialog". Canon iP5200 & HP1220C: Chris reports "I set up the Belkin unit via the Ethernet port to start and then installed the printers direct to the desktops (as recommended by Belkin). Then I moved the printers to the Belkin unit and ran the setup utility on each machine. The result is that both printers work with all the relevant machines EXCEPT for the printer monitoring software. For some reason, the monitors can't talk to the printers via the print server even with bi-directional communication enabled. The best I can see is paper out messages, but not ink levels, etc. If the print server guys could nail that one, life would be even better!" Canon LBP-1120: David reports "After install does not print. Solution > Printer Properties >Advanced > Select Print Directly to the Printer". Epson C70 Epson Stylus C41UX (& Lexmark E230): Trev reports "Setting up was reasonably straight forward, once the printers were installed locally on each machine: the only drama we had installing the system was getting the local printer installations sorted (ie dragging the printers to each PC for installation). Once the printers were installed locally, everything went well. One thing not supported however is the printer status of either printer, which is a bit of a pain." Epson C44UX: Justin reports all sorts of problems at first and took the first one he purchased back to the shop to exchange as faulty, then "New unit hooked up my wireless network ok, but still didn't work. Found out that some of the installation CD's were faulty ("error loading help"), from another site, I'd wrongly assumed that this was just for the help guide but apparently not ! Downloaded drivers off Belkin website and ran it - hey presto it works. " Epson Stylus Colour C82: Kev reports "Printing works perfectly (However I have used the standard Windows XP LPR port rather than the supplied one out of choice - Instructions for Windows XP at Tesco.net. The status monitor doesn't work - which is unfortunate but live-able with (never worked on remote PC's when using Windows sharing anyway) Tip from someone who's been there and got the T-Shirt (i.e. Me!) - Ensure you use the correct drivers - the C80 ones print gibberish via the server despite working fine when directly connected via USB. The print server can used used either on the WiFi or wired Ethernet (I use the latter as it's sat on top of my ADSL Router)." Epson Stylus Photo 870 Epson Stylus Photo R300 Epson Stylus RX420 & Stylus Color 680: Martin from the UK reports "Experiences to date are that it supports a small range of major brand printers, is easy to configure (including wireless encrypted) and works really well with the latest download (2/12/04 ) overlaid on the shipped CD; prints were failing before this update. Printers working successfully are Epson Stylus RX420 and Epson Stylus Color 680. Monitoring of ink not working which is a shame (would appreciate any views if this will ever get cured), as this is key to have at least one PC showing the fuel level!" HP laserjet 1010 HP1220C See Chris's comments above for Canon iP5200 HP Deskjet 935C HP DeskJet 3550: Andy reports "Both HP3550 DeskJet and OKI B4250 laser work with this print server but not automagically. Manual setup does the trick - Under printer properties for each printer, configure ports manually using the Advanced dialog in each case. Use LP1 for Printer 1 with 515 selected as port number. Use LP2 for Printer 2 with 516 selected as port number. Note that the Belkin setup app will attempt to configure both printers (assuming you have 2) on the same port during initial setup - at least this was the case with me. This scenario never works. Hence the manual setup I am forced to use with each additional PC. Other than that, the F1UP0001 is a mighty little unit for printer independence from any particular PC. :-) One more thing, Belkin claim that using an ethernet connection to the unit disables the wireless capability. Not so. I have my desktop PC connected to print via ethernet while every other machine (4x laptops) all connect via wireless. Not sure why Belkin would claim that it won't work when it patently does, but maybe some specific configurations have issues?" HP LaserJet 5L Lexmark E230: See Trev's report under Epson Stylus C41UX above Lexmark F4270: Swede reports "I use the F1UP0001 with the Lexmark F4270 and it works well." OKI B4250: See Andy's report for HP Deskjet 3550.	Canon PIXMA IP5000: Al reports "When you finally manage to connect the F1UP0001 to your router, (the trick is to do a hard reset as soon as you take it out of the box by pressing the test button for 10 secs or more while plugging in the power), although you can still print (with a 1000% loss in speed) it does not support bi-directional communication. After talking with US Robotics, Belkin and Canon support, here is their final answer: Uninstall the canon drivers and let windows install its own drivers. However, windows doesn't have any so it's not really compatible with the ip5000 unless you know of any drivers that remove all feedback communication with the printer, or an aftermarket patch." Dell 962 MFP: Graham reports "Game over :(" HP Deskjet 990Cxi HP 1020 LaserJet: Rein reports "The setup is all fine the print seems to queue , the lights flash on the Belkin unit and then ; Nothing and the print queue deletes." See also comment at TechRepublic regarding GDI printers. Kyocera Mita FS1010: Lorraine reports "It works for a short time but to get it to work you must keep switching the printer on and off then it will print a few documents. It does not matter how large but after a period of only a few minutes of inactivity it requires the on/off reset again. I have the latest drivers for both and run WinXP."
Belkin F5L009au (Network USB Hub. Not a Print Server)
	Works	Doesn't work
	Epson Stylus R390: Bob reports "This seems really good piece of kit. I have it connected to my Snapgear SG300 (bought from you) and it works seamlessly with my Epson Stylus R390/Vista Ultimate 32-bit setup. You can't really tell that there isn't a physical USB cable there. No more futzing about with print servers and uncertain driver compatibility...this Just Works. Even the ink levels status monitor works. It's not exactly a print server, but what the hey!"	Note from OzCableguy: This is not a print server as such. While it will provide network access to USB devices including multifunction printers (note: no compatibility list is available), actually sharing the devices to multiple computers simultaineously may be problematic. Be sure to google for reviews for more information about its capabilities before you decide if this is the device for you.
Dan sent me the following extensive report for the F5L009: All in all, I'm pleased. It's not perfect, but it works much more smoothly than I expected. I have it connected to: Samsung 1430 printer Dell 1600n MFP (this is supposed to be a network MFP, but the network scanning is a joke) Iomega 33748 desktop hard drive Canon BJC-2100 So far I've only tested it with 2 computers at once, one XP, the other Vista. Setup was pretty easy. There is no setup to do on the appliance at all; just plug it in to power, your network, and some USB devices. It gets an IP address from DHCP and detects what devices are connected to it. Every computer that wants to use it, though, has to have the "Hub Control Center" installed. It's a simple install that also installs whatever shim it is that convinces Windows you have equipment connected to a USB port when it's really on the network. On the computer that uses the Windows built-in firewall, after the setup program ran, I was in business. I did have to manually set up a rule on one computer's BitDefender firewall to allow incoming traffic from the hub. The manual was pretty clear on what needed to be done, with step-by-step instructions for the most popular firewalls (although not for BitDefender). I bought this thing in order to share the above devices, so I set the printers up to connect only when needed. That option is only for printers, and only seems to work for printing. The external hard drive I set to manual connect. I set the 1600n MFP to connect only when needed, which works for the printing function, but I have to manually connect to scan. Compatibility with my hardware: Samsung 1430 It works just fine with one problem. I have it set to connect when I need the printer, and disconnect when I don't, which works flawlessly. However, if I turn off the printer, then later turn it back on, the hub doesn't detect that it's back, and says the printer is "unavailable." If I unplug, then replug the USB cable, it comes right back up. Canon BJC-2100 It works fine, connecting and disconnecting automatically. There is one very odd behavior. With some files, the print job completes, but for some reason the job remains in the queue. The most peculiar thing is that if you send other print jobs, they will go through, ignoring the leftover job ahead of them. So everything works fine, but if you open up the print queue, you see this long queue of phantom jobs, which sit there until deleted. Dell 1600n The print part works fine, but since the 1600n comes with a print server, it's not all that useful. It is very useful for scanning. I have to manually connect to the 1600n in order for the scan to work, but that only requires three clicks. And if you weren't going to share the 1600n scanner, you could just set your computer to stay connected all the time. Iomega 33748 Again I have to connect manually when I want to use it, but I could choose to always be connected if I weren't sharing it. Otherwise it seems to work fine. I haven't really tested the speed, but it seems much quicker than USB 1.1 Sharing resources: I haven't done much testing of this, but when I print simultaneously to the Samsung ML-1430, the hub handles the contention nicely, automatically connecting the first computer, and on the second computer showing that the device is connected to another computer, then disconnecting the first computer when that print job is done, and automatically connecting the second computer and completing the print job. If one user is connected to the external HD, I can see that in the Hub Control Center, and can "Request Use" of the hardware. A little text message pops up on the connected computer, and then if the connected computer disconnects, the requesting computer can manually connect. One of the weirdest things about it is that they tout its wireless ability (the box has the word "wireless" on it at least 11 times), but it has only a 10/100BaseTX port, so you have to connect it to a wireless access point or router, not included (which is clear if you read the whole box). The box also touts it as "the industry's 1st reliable print server" even though it isn't a print server. It does seem to be a reliable way to share printers, though, so it does the same job as a print server. The only real difference is that the print queues are maintained on the desktops and contend for the printer, instead of going into a central queue on the print server. I did a little test on the transfer speed on the Belkin F5L009. I transferred a 1.3 GB file through the F5L009, and the transfer speed seemed good for the first minute, then plummeted, and the transfer took about 20 minutes, during which time the computer was much less responsive (though the Task Manager showed CPU and HD usage under 25%). Then I plugged the drive right into my laptop's USB port and the transfer took 1 minute. Smaller transfers (10 MB) only took about 30 seconds, which is OK, but hardly USB 2.0 speed.
Buffalo LPV3-U2
	Works	Doesn't work
	Canon i560: Tony reports "My Canon i560 printer works on my network - BUT not the printer monitor software. The setup CD for the buffalo LPV3-U2 print server gives you the option of acquiring the IP address automatically, but once set up it requires you to manually enter the assigned IP address in the printer port. This creates a conflict if the router assigns a different address sometime in the future. It seems there are no USB print servers out there that support printer monitor software."
Canon Silex Pricom C-6200U
	Works	Doesn't work
	Canon i560: Nick reports "I'm happy to report that after setting up the pricom print server with the IP addresses, it has worked happily for ages now. I set each PC to have this as the default network printer. It works properly & is fully bi-directional, reporting printer status & ink levels, etc nicely."	Canon LBP3200: Nick reports "we're having absolutely no luck getting a Canon LBP3200 with a Silex Technology Pricom C-6200U working through Cups (SUSE 9). We've tried all sorts of variations of IP address and port names/numbers. LPR ports, TCP/IP ports etc but to no avail. We also have an HP R30 with a usb print server which refuses to cooperate. I'm tipping it's an OS thing. Occasionally the printer will print out a page after the print server and printer have been turned off for a few minutes. On the upside, the installation disc that accompanies the Pricom has the printer working in around 3 minutes if you choose to print directly to the print server (as the manufacturer intended...)"
Canon Silex Pricom C-6700WG
	Works	Doesn't work
		Canon Pixma 8500: Nick reports "I spoke to Canon who recommended the silex C-6700WG as that is USB2. I can't get the thing to work though. It seems to corrupt the printer driver as the spooler stops working and the only way to get the spooler back is to delete the printer drivers and reinstall them. Then as soon as you try to set up the silex the print spooler goes down again."
D-Link DI-524UP
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Canon Inkjet Pixma ip3000: Stephen reports "It worked using Queue lp1 (not lp0) and deselecting LPR Byte counting. Like the other people the status window says that the printer is offline but it still prints. Sometimes the status window doesn�t come up but still prints." Canon Pixma IP4000: Ken reports "I installed it a couple of days ago and am very happy with it. The installation was easy straight forward and worked first time. Setting up the printer proved easy too. The instructions were great and I've had no problems. I have a Canon Pixma IP4000 and have had no problems printing documents or photos from my desktop connected to the router by ethernet or from my laptop connected by wireless. The only annoyance is the status monitor tells me the printer isn't responding while in the background I can hear it happily printing away. Oh well we can't have everything." Canon iP4200: Tim reports (using the link mentioned below in the Canon MP530 comment) "The info about setting lp1 (instead of just lp, which it should be according to D-Links directions) worked a treat. Printer operates just fine, but no status reports such as ink levels." Canon Pixma iP5200: Marteyn reports "In short: it works. This printer seems to be a Host-based printer (though I�m not sure about this), which is not supported by D-link for this model. However, after some tinkering and turning stuff on and off I got things up and running. Unfortunately, just like I have been reading about other people with Pixma printers, there is no proper status feedback from the printer. For example, I can not see the ink-levels on my printer. Come January Canon Malaysia will use my print server to test and see if they can come up with a solution." Canon Pixma MP530: Dan reports "The following link shows how to do it: on step 8 set to 'lp1' regardless of if you're using USB or not. http://whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/592722.html. Of course, it's a multifunction printer so it's only the printer bits that work." Kyocera Mita FS-1010: Francis reports "What isn�t clear is it�s a two step process. When you first set up the printer as a local printer you�re setting up the printer specs in the router. After that�s done then you have to set up the computer as a client (ie run the network wizard) and then add a printer using TCP/IP." HP 3330 MFC: Dave reports "I have an HP 3330 MFC (running with XP system) that would not connect using normal setup wizard. I followed the link http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/592722.html and then Mattyboys instructions. Worked a treat. No problems printing now. Scanning is a problem, as the original setup points to the old usb printer setup... and I can't setup scanning through the print server." HP Deskjet 3535: Ana reports "On XP works fine, I Just had to read the damn manual. On Vista I had to disable �bi-directional printing� and select �print direct to the printer�. That means no spooler�" HP LJ1020: Mark reports lots of troubles getting it to work but was successful in the end. "It took some trial and error but even though the printer is a 1020, it worked with a 1022n or 1022nw driver." Samsung ML-2010 Monochrome Laser Printer: Bill reports "It worked first time. I installed the printer driver first then followed the router instructions for installing a printer using the USB server exactly; then deleted the original driver. The printer works like a dream from all three XP Pro computers on the network; however error messages do not appear from the status monitor."	Canon Pixma IP4200: Nathan reports that he "cant get it to work." Canon pixma ip5000: Westfresh reports "cannot get to work at all". Canon S600 & S400: Imigry reports "both are recognised by the print server but that is as far as it goes. Despite trying different IP addresses and even getting a driver from Canon that supposedly supports this setup it just does not work. The problem is not the print server and Canon tells me the puchase of an additional bit of hardware to run the printer thru will fix it. It's cheaper to just buy another printer." HP Laserjet 1000: Olle reports "Have spend some hours trying to get an HP Laserjet 1000 work with DI-524UP. It just does not work and I guess that the Laserjet 1000 is a host-based printer."
		Canon LBP3200: Nick reports "we're having absolutely no luck getting a Canon LBP3200 with a Silex Technology Pricom C-6200U working through Cups (SUSE 9). We've tried all sorts of variations of IP address and port names/numbers. LPR ports, TCP/IP ports etc but to no avail. We also have an HP R30 with a usb print server which refuses to cooperate. I'm tipping it's an OS thing. Occasionally the printer will print out a page after the print server and printer have been turned off for a few minutes. On the upside, the installation disc that accompanies the Pricom has the printer working in around 3 minutes if you choose to print directly to the print server (as the manufacturer intended...)"
D-Link DI-624S
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Brother HL-1430: Tony reports "The printer did not work first up but I did a firmware upgrade on the Router and all works well now". Oliver adds that it's necessary to follow "the procedure for LPR setting required like the 704UP"(Zip file). Brother HL-2040: HItesh reports "Initial tries to get the printer to work over the print server failed (as the printer works on host based settings). However, installing the Brother HL-2070N drivers that also come on the printer cd worked a treat. Using IP port\queue name (as recommended by DLink in their manual) works now over LAN and WLAN." Brother MFC-7420: Jerome reports "it worked without a hitch as per the appendix which is in the electronic manual." Canon i965: Paul reports "I tried the printer via the D-Link�s USB print server and it appears to work ok � was able to print a test page from both PCs connected." Canon Pixma iP3000: Steven reports "Taking the advice of others who had updated router firmware I did the same and have now successfully installed my printer as a network printer through the router." Canon MP110: Matt reports "I bought a DLINK DI-624S today and had problems trying to get it to print via the USB port on the router. I upgraded the firmware of the router to 1.1 and bingo it is now working fine." Canon S820: George reports "I was able, after a while, to get the DI-624S to work properly as a printer server with a Canon S820 printer. The printer status monitor works also." Lexmark E230: John reports "superficially it works fine, but any document of more than about 12 pages just fails. I'm experimenting with spooling versus direct print, memory allocations, etc. but no luck so far. Can't find a time out setting, yet. You can only change the setup of the printer locally, so to get it to work via the server connect it locally and tick all the spool, memory associate to the USB connection and timeouts and set them to high values... i.e. the only issue is the speed at which it responds via the server, especially if you have the power saving set short. "	Canon LBP3000: Warren reports "I have been trying for a week to get this printer to work with the D-link router. The router sees the printer ok but no amount of fiddling with ip addresses and port configuration can make the printer work. The usual message from the printer software, when there is a message, is that the port is not supported."
D-Link DI-704UP
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Brother HL-1240 Brother HL-1430 & Epson C41UX: After having problems getting it going, Brent advises that the install guide found on the Australian site (Zip file) states to enter LPR settings as 'lpUSB0'. However if you check the D-Link global site it states to enter just "lp". Using LP works while 'lpUSB0' would not for some reason. Brother 5140D: See comments by Angus for HP Laserjet 1000 in "doesn't work" column. Brother HL5150D Brother MFC 9180: Cam reports "Ive been using this for maybe 1 � years or so. The printer works fine and haven�t had any problems with it. And so the print server has worked fine as well." Canon i865: Rob reports "I have a DLink DI-704UP and it works fine with my Canon i865 EXCEPT that the print monitor reports "Printer not responding". The job prints at normal speed but alas no warnings of paper or ink out." Canon iP3000: Justin reports "it worked on all machines (98, 2000 and XP). I only tested from notepad, and the client tested from word, but both were successful." Canon MP730 Canon Pixma IP2000: David reports "Responds to commands sent to it, like clean, power off etc, but there is no feedback for ink levels or other status. The print drivers installed happily connecting through the router printer port." Canon iP4200: Thomas reports "Canon ip4200 and D-Link 704up work fine. Installation is very easy all you need to do is install the printer server, install printer drivers and manually select D-Link printer port. Printer works great EXCEPT printer sometimes reports "Printer not responding" (just turn off monitor status) and cannot tell you ink levels. I have had issues with 'dropouts' where the printer and router are not communicating. Turning the power on and off to the printer solves the problem but this is annoying and I cannot fix it." Canon PIXMA iP5000: Giles reports "It works fine as far as printing goes. It seems to take instructions o.k. like automatically turning on the printer, duplexing etc. However, it gives no feedback on the printer status, such as ink levels, etc. It just leaves a message saying �printer not responding�. This can be a bit frustrating!" Canon Pixma i6600D: Paul reports "I setup the printer software and drivers before connecting, as per instructions. I then setup access from the router as D-Link instruct and it worked perfectly straight up. I successfully tested the printer with adjusting preferences, printing test pages, print head alignment test, nozzle check and power off working fine from the properties menu. The only exception was viewing printer status which looks at ink tank levels etc, would not work." Canon S100SP: Michael reports "...it mostly works ok except it sometimes refuses to print for no obvious reason, requiring powering off and on; it demands that bi-directional printing be enabled; and the printer driver always reports "printer not responding"." Canon S520 Epson C41UX (See above for Brother HL-1430 Epson AcuLaser C1100: Darren reports "It seems to print OK. However the print job will not stop. i.e. It will keep printing until I kill the job on the Printer. I have just begun my investigation on this one. Not quite sure if its the printer or the router that is causing the problem. This didn't happen when I directly plugged the printer into the PC via the USB cable." Update: "I seemed to have solved the problem by deleting the port then reinstalling using instructions from the DLink FAQ on their website." Epson C66: Peter reports "Works fine with the C-66. Emailed D-Link about my particular printer before I bought it, they had no clue. I would advise anyone considering buying this box that if your printer is not on the approved/disapproved list. Go and give it a try anyway, there's a good chance it will work. I, like all the others do not get bi-directional support (no ink levels). Don't know why there isn't an update to fix this yet, that is ridiculous. I see no delay in printing caused by using the 704up over not using it. However, once in a while (like when changing the cartridges) I will lose connection with the printer and will not be able to print. Print server works by assigning an IP address to the printer. To fix the issue, I must get new address for printer. Turning off the computers, the printer and then the router. Then I turn on printer first, wait till it posts, then plug in router, then turn on computer. This by the way is the correct order to power up when installing. Again, the manual and quick-start guide both tell you otherwise, don't believe them. This has only happened twice, and I consider it an acceptable issue, though there should be a way to release and renew the printer only through the on-screen interface." HP DJ895cxi HP Photosmart 7600: "K" reports "My HP Photosmart 7600 printer is not supported. When you get to the step to select your printer it is not there. D-Link support says to try inserting your Printer Driver disk at that point, that did not work either. I tried something stupid and it worked. I selected a driver for a different printer, then after the install was done I went in and changed the driver to my printer driver (which my system still had available as it was installed previously). Works great!" HP LaserJet 1010: Erica reports "All I had to do was install the printer software that came on the CD that came with the router on each computer. Then I just followed the following guide located at this website." Lexmark X215 MFC (print only) Samsung ML4600: Bill reports "Setup was fine just as described in the instructions. However, it sometimes will not accept a print job and/or the print job just sits in the queue. I recently found in these situations that if I reboot the router it automatically runs the print job." Xerox Phaser 3115: Scott reports "I have a 704UP and it works with Xerox Phaser 3115, but will not support my Kyocera Mita FS-1010"	Macs: Cathy reports "I just recently purchased a D-Link Ethernet Broadband Router with USB print server (DI-704UP). There were no instructions on how to install the print server software on a mac. Anyway, I rang the D-Link Australia technical support line and they confirmed that they do not support Macs - so no print server for me! It's a bit misleading cause it does say on their online tech sheet that they have print server support for Mac OS, however, when the router came it says on the box that the print server only works with Windows Operating Systems. How disappointing!" Update: Rod reports this link which is all about getting OSX to work with the DI-704P. The 704P has a parallel port print server rather than USB, but the instructions might just do the trick anyway. Canon Laser Shot LBP-1120: David reports "I have tried to get the printer to print through the printer server of the router, but have been unsuccessful. The router knows that the printer is there, but the printer just won�t work." Dell AIO Printer 962: Calton reports "does NOT work with D-link DI-704UP" Epson R310: Keith reports "first unit did not work, got replacement unit from D-Link - set up easily, worked for 1 day then failed, tried to get it working for a week and then gave up. DI-704UP has the most reliable Bigpond Cable client I've tried, so all is not lost." HP Laserjet1000: Angus reports "I have recently installed a Dlink DI-704UP print server/router and tried two laser printers: The print server didn't work with HP Laserjet1000 (This is a host based printer. HP warned it didn't work and they were right). The Brother 5140D worked perfectly. (XP worked out of the box with its supplied LPR/LPD, win98 required installation of the DLINK supplied print server software)." HP Laserjet 1320: Jeff reports that contrary to D-Link's phone advice, this was not compatible after all. HP confirmed this was the case and advised that it would only work with a HP JetDirect Print Server. Samsung ML-1710: does not offer complete bi-directional support & when the printer goes into standby/sleep mode and a print job is sent, the printer doesn't wake up and print. Kyocera Mita FS-1010: Scott reports "I have a 704UP and it works with Xerox Phaser 3115, but will not support my Kyocera Mita FS-1010" Kyocera FS 820: Stefan reports no success with this. The router would not show the light for a connected printer. Lexmark Z53 Color Jet: George reports "I have been fighting with the USB print server function of a D-Link DI-704UP for nearly three months. The router works fine, but not the print server. We had previously had no trouble with a D-Link DI-704P (with a parallel port print server), but when the router portion failed, the DI-704UP is what the company replaced it with. Our printer is a Lexmark Z53 Color Jetprinter. The D-Link tech told me to phone or email Lexmark and get an IP address and port name. So far, that has not been forthcoming."
DLink DI-724P+
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	HP laserjet 1100: Cameron reports "I can happily report that WPA-PSK ASCII was easy to setup, as was my HP LaserJet 1100 parallel printer. "	HP LaserJet 1160 (With Vista): Eva reports "We currently have a Dlink DI-714P+ which we have used up til now for an HP LaserJet 1160 printer. It has worked well with XP. Since we upgraded to Vista on two of our three machines, it only works intermittently. It works for a couple of printouts, then suddenly (I have found no pattern) remains in the queue. It doesn't print until computer restart. We have another printer also, so we tried switching to that to see if the problem was printer/driver related, an Epson Stylus Photo 890, but the intermittent problem remained. I thus conclude this printer also would work on XP".
DLink DI-824VUP+
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Glen reports in general "I noticed something about the software for the D-Link DI-824VUP+ router/print server that might be useful to point out to people. When it's installed you get a port added to the printer called PRTmate that redirects to the print server. What isn't obvious is that by default this is configured to use the parallel port on the router and if like most people these days you have a USB printer your print jobs go into a black hole. No error message, the job just sits there and never completes. Soon as you click the Configure Port button on the PRTmate port in the printer properties and change it to USB it's all happy. Easy enough once you know but I'm sure it's caused some head scratching." Canon i550: Glenn reports "that both the parallel and USB ports can be used simultaneously. I have a Xerox P8ex Laser and a Canon i550 InkJet and both work fine via the USB port (and parallel port for that matter). I presently have the InkJet connected to the USB port and the status monitor doesn't function (never worked when connected directly to the PC anyway so maybe not the printer server's fault). Canon S900: Cameron reports "I set up my network using a D-Link DI-824VUP+ and connected my Canon S900 to the USB and my Epson Stylus Colour 600 to the parallel port. I installed them using the supplied instructions [on CD] and they both work fine. The router is using firmware V1.04 ,the printers are both using original drivers and the operating system is Win XP. The queue name is lp for the Epson and lpUSB0 for the Canon." Epson Stylus C20: Mark reports "the Epson Stylus CX5200 Printer does not work with the D-Link DI-824VUP+. How ever the Epson Stylus C20 works fine. Both are USB connected." Epson Stylus Colour 600: See Canon S900 above. HP laserjet 1100: Rick reports "works great on the parallel port" HP Laserjet 3380: David reports "I got a HP-3380 MFC Laser printer working all ok via the D-LINK DI-824VUP+ USB print server. I used the Post Script driver supplied on the HP CDROM supplied with the device, just click 'have disk' and browse to the English\Drivers\WinXP folder of the CD To install the driver at setup time.Of course only the printer works via the network, not the FAX etc �. :)" HP PSC2510 Xerox P8ex Laser: See Glenn's report above for Canon i550.	Canon i450 Dell A920 MFP Epson Stylus CX5200: Mark reports "the Epson Stylus CX5200 Printer does not work with the D-Link DI-824VUP+. How ever the Epson Stylus C20 works fine. Both are USB connected." Epson CX5400: Char reports "I have an Epson CX5400 and it doesn�t work even after changing it to a USB port rather than a parallel port. Dlink couldn�t even help. I�m going to Best Buy today or tomorrow to get a new printer." HP 1010: Maxwell reports that it constantly loses the connection and requires a reboot of the Router, Printer and PCs to get going again but is still in discussion with DLink for possible fixes. HP Laser Jet 3030 (MFC) Lexmark Z45
DLink DIR-825
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
		Canon iP4300: MCalca reports "I have a Canon iP4300 connected to a D-Link DIR-825 Router with Print sharing. There are two PC Desktops, wired, running XP Home and XP Pro and a Wireless Dell Laptop running Vista Home Premium. I installed the Print Share Utility and Printer drivers on all 3 machines. I am able to print from all three machines but I keep getting the following error: "Canon iP4300 USB001. Cannot communicate with the printer. Turn Enable bi-directional support on in the printer's Properties dialog box". I cannot get rid of this error and I cannot turn on bi-directional support because the check box is greyed out. Canon has been completely useless and supports only one print server. Network Magic does not support print servers and does not fully support my router. D-Link will only support getting your internet shared but not the Print Share option. I tried setting the port to TCP but could not print at all. Any one out there get this router to work correctly with a non network Canon USB printer?"
D-Link DNS-323
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Canon i350: Michael reports "The Canon LBP3300 printer does not work on the D-Link DNS-323 USB print server. My Canon i350 does. As I now understand it, printers with Canon�s CAPT need a CAPT print server on the machine which is connected by USB to the printer. It would have been nice to know this when I bought the DNS-323." Epson C42+: Foamcow reports "I use a D-Link DNS-323 with an Epson C42+ with no real problems. I seem to recall it worked right away with no fiddling. Only problem I have is that there doesn't seem to be any way to monitor the print queue on the DNS-323 without installing modifications that would take it out of warranty (and potentially 'brick' the unit)." HP PSC 750: Mads reports "I got it to work with a little fooling around. I guess this work-around will work for all HP PSC Series (Printer/Scanner/copy). 1. Install original PSC 750 driver on the pc (just connect it direct to the USB port) 2. Connect the PSC 750 to the DNS-323 3. Double-click on shared printer (\\dns323share\lp) 4. Pick "HP PaintJet" from the list when prompted for printer driver 5. Go to Printer -> Properties -> Advanced and choose "HP PSC 750" on the driver drop-down Now you have full printer functionality (but no scanning, I guess�) Lexmark Z65P: Jorge reports "I just followed the manufacturer's instructions and it worked well. After installation users might want to leave the printer on, reboot the computer and then try printing a test page."	Canon LBP3300: Michael reports "The Canon LBP3300 printer does not work on the D-Link DNS-323 USB print server. My Canon i350 does. As I now understand it, printers with Canon�s CAPT need a CAPT print server on the machine which is connected by USB to the printer. It would have been nice to know this when I bought the DNS-323." HP PSC2100: Joshua reports "I cannot get my Dlink DNS-323 to use my HP PSC 2100 series all-in-one printser".
D-Link DP-101+
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
		Canon BJC-3000: John reports "Frankly, the Dlink has been an absolute pain in the arse, it would not work with TCP/IP and I had to install NetBEUI to get it to work. When I upgraded to WinXP the other day it would not work what ever I did."
D-Link DP-301P+
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Samsung SCX-4100: Randy reports "The 301P+ is connected to the parallel port of my Samsung SCX-4100 printer/scanner/copier (has both USB and parallel ports - the USB port is plugged into a nearby desktop). Setup was nearly instant - I just plugged everything in and followed the instructions on their quick start guide to set up Windows XP to print." Toshiba TEC B-443: Nirus reports for both the Netgear PS101 V2 and D-Link DP-301P+ "This is a label printer that I deal with on a fairly regular basis (like 20 -25 of them), also the newer Toshiba S4V which is just a newer version of the same. In my experience both print servers work perfectly on this printer style."
D-Link DP-301U
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Terry reports (in general): This Print server was really crappy with the 1.xx firmware out of the box it ships with. Constantly locking up randomly needing power cycle to bring alive and then would shortly die. Updated to 2.00 firmware and it runs like a dream. 5 units tested with the same result. Canon i350: Randy reports "The 301U is connected to my Canon i350. Setup was a little tricky. First, the device defaults to an IP of 192.168.0.10 instead of using DHCP. My network is 192.168.2.xxx and it took me about 20 minutes to figure out that the device was on a different subnet. So then I took a spare laptop and set its IP to 192.168.0.xxx and used it to configure the unit to use DHCP. Then, for an unknown reason, printing wouldn't work at all. I finally removed the printer from control panel and restarted the installation process. It worked." Canon i350: John reports that "it seemed to work a treat. " Canon imageClass MP370: Anthony reports "the only issue is that the Canon monitoring software reports that the "Printer is not responding". Obviously there is some failure in bi-directional communications, however the print job does print." Canon Pixma ip4000: Crispin reports "My network contains a mixture of Windows 2000 machines and Mac OSX boxes. The Windows computers have no problem printing with this set up but the Macs presented more of a problem which I appear to have overcome: The Canon ip4000 printer drivers for OSX don't behave like other drivers in that they don't show up in the dialog box unless the printer is actually plugged into the machine with a USB cable. The answer seems to be to use the drivers for the Canon BJC 7000 instead which appear to work well with the ip4000 printer." Canon iP4300: Adriaan reports "Our wireless home network consists of a PC and a laptop, both running Windows XP. We can print wireless, but the 2 computers cannot retrieve the printer's status (unless I connect them directly with the printer's USB cable). This is rather annoying since you can't monitor the printer's ink levels, and that results in empty ink cartridges at the most inconvenient moments. The printer will the not print with empty cartridges, unless the you accept "the consequences" (possible damage). But to have the option to accept these, the computer needs to know the printer's status, and this I only manage to recieve by connecting the computer directly with the printer." Canon Pixma MP780: Richard reports "as with other MFDs the scanning and fax functions don�t work, other than this a relatively painless install. However, I have had issues with it over wireless where the last page of every document will pause for 20 seconds before finishing. Wired printing works fine, however set up is improved if you fully remove the drivers from the computer first. Using the manual for this print server is highly recommended as you�ll be up and running in just a few minutes." Warning: Dave reports that he had no luck getting this combination to work: "I have an DP301U and trying to set up an MP780 on it (actually I have 2 so I know the printer is ok) and the print status is always offline. I have updated the firmware. It works fantastic with my MP390". Canon S330: Nicholas reports "I recently purchased a D-Link DP-301U print server on my home network which comprises two Windoze 98 machines and one XP Home. The printer is a Canon S330. Apart from a few hiccups, which had more to do with my mistrust of the manuals and the usual ambiguous dialogue boxes from Micro$oft, the 301U installed without drama. To date it has worked perfectly, much more reliably than the Printer Sharing arrangement I had before. A few words of caution: Follow the instructions in the manual exactly. These are significantly different for different versions of Windoze. Write everything down that you change, including Port Name, IP address, Subnet Mask, etc. Double-check everything before hitting the Apply button." Epson Photo Stylus 720 printer Kyocera Mita FS-1010: Nirus reports (DP-301U Rev A) "acted erratically from the start, messed around with it. It would stop responding to pings as soon as the USB cable was plugged in, and start responding again as soon as you unplugged the USB cable from the printserver/printer. Worked fine after the firmware was upgraded." HP1020: Tim reports "I have this printer working with the DP-301U. When I first configured the DP-301U I had the common problem of the data being transmitted through my router and into the print server, the USB light coming on to say the server was trying to send data to the printer but the printer did not receive the data. I reset the print server so that I had a fresh start and reset the IP address to what I had given it in my router. Tested the Server Web page access to ensure I had it set correctly and changed none of the other settings. Then I used my HP 1020 install disk to totally remove the print drivers from my Windows XP computer and then reinstall the driver. I reattached the printer to the USB port on my computer, tested the print worked, and then reattached the USB cable to the print server. Next, I added a new printer through Windows, selected the TCP/IP port I had already created for the server and changed none of the settings from the defaults listed in the print server manual. The printer now works fine with the server." HP LaserJet 1010: Nirus reports "This printer model is known for not working with linux very well, due to the fact that it is a lower end �host based� printing model. My experiences find that while the print server behaves fairly reliably, if the printer does fall over (it does on a regular basis with linux), then the print server will also need to be restarted before the printer will work again." HP LaserJet 1300: Nirus reports "Works perfectly with this printer out of the box from both Linux and Windows".	Canon LBP3200 Laser Shot: John reports "After a quick call to D-Link support they confirmed that the 3200 is a GDI Host based printer and will not work with their print server. I did try it on a Canon i965 and it seemed to work a treat. " Lexmark x83 Lexmark Z-33: Mark reports "I am having the same problem as Terry, but unfortunately the upgraded firmware has failed to fix the problem"
D-Link DP-311U
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
		Brother HL-1430: Paul reports "It will print single pagews, including very large bitmaps, but will not cope with multi-page output from Word. I tried every option I could think of and searched the web and the D-Link and Brother sites thoroughly. Brother Solution Centre: "In the spooling options tell it to print directly to the printer (in the print driver), it sounds like it is having difficulty receiving confirmation between the spooling on the HDD and the printers memory". No response from them when I told them that this did not work. D-Link Tech Support: "Thank you for your email, in regards to your question, please try a different driver for that printer - a generic windows driver? And see if that improves the situation, also perhaps contact your printer manufacturer and see if they have any specialized printer drivers for TCP/IP printing." Brother HL-1440 Canon MultiPass 730: Blaster reports "The D-Link DP-311U does not work with Brother HL-1440 and also Canon MultiPass 730. "
D-Link DP-311P
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
		Canon BJC-250: Kathie reports "I first tried it with a D-Link wireless printserver Model DP-311P. The description of this server left me believing it would work easily with my generic parallel printer. Wrong...I could hardly log on to it successful and it must be in configuration mode (switch at back of server) to change its settings. This is where I got angry. It turns out that it doesn't work in WPA-PSK mode as I have my router configured. I had no idea this was true until I saw the DP-311P configuration page. Even though it was manufactured and designed in the same time frame as my router, it still only had WEP encryption. I could actually configure it with WEP 128 bit, but it slowed down my system and took lots of fiddling to configure. Of course it would not stay connected unless the router was set to WEP."
D-Link DP-G310
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Brother DCP-110C: See Izzy's comments for Dell 942 in "doesn't work" column Brother HL-2040: Edwin reports "I have used the Brother HL-2040 successfully with no problems at all on the D-Link DP-G310. Straighforward Setup. However, the print server always seems to get VERY hot. ALso, in all cases setting up printing via a "TCP/IP Printer Port" seems to be more reliable than trying to setup the print server as a client on your Windows Workgroup Printer Sharing (although this does work)." Brother MFC-3240C: See Izzy's comments for Dell 942 in "doesn't work" column Canon IP8500: Stephen reports "I run a Lexmark Optra S 1855 on the parallel port with no problems I also have a Canon IP8500 on a USB port. The printer works fine, but the Canon Status Monitor software does not work. You have to disable this software, and relying on the flashing light codes on the printer itself for problems (Usually an empty ink tank)" Lexmark Optra S 1855: Stephen reports "I run a Lexmark Optra S 1855 on the parallel port with no problems I also have a Canon IP8500 on a USB port. The printer works fine, but the Canon Status Monitor software does not work. You have to disable this software, and relying on the flashing light codes on the printer itself for problems (Usually an empty ink tank)"	Dell 942: Izzy reports "did not work. After contacting D-Link and looking at the list of printers they were unable to advise which printer would actually work. The list of printers on the web side in Australia are no longer provided by HP. I tried it on a friends printer Brother MFC 3240C and DCP110C which worked first time. Other than the list of printers and problems with the type of printers the device is working..." Epson Stylus Photo R320: Steve reports "A nice little box that has USB 2 connectivity, wired or wireless. Easy http-based setup requiring no special drivers, and using only the standard TCP-IP LPR protocol within XP Pro! Unfortunately ALL PRINT JOBS DIED at the Ethernet-USB junction without any notification or error message. Tech Support was quick and reasonably informed. We tried flashing the firmware to 1.40, no luck. He even referred me to your page! I liked this device�s setup routine much better than Linksys�, but since I could get no output from it with my printer, it goes back to the store tomorrow." HP LaserJet 1020 Plus: Kamshetty reports "I was looking for a wireless cum wired print server for my office purposes, therefore thought DP-G310 would best satisfy all my requirements of being a wireless cum wired print server. While going through the products details page on the D-Link website, I couldn�t find anywhere the compatibility issues related with the product. I was not even warned by the reseller, of the compatibility issues related to it. Later after wasting hours on trying to install it in the network, I decided to call the D-Link technical support, from whom I finally learned that my printer (HP LaserJet 1020) is not compatible with the Print Server".
D-Link DP-G321
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Canon BJC4200: Stephen reports "Installation was easy and it was up and running on all of our computers within 10 minutes of coming out of the box. No printing problems thus thus far (its been several days)." HP Laserjet 4L: Cesar reports "It works seamlessly with a MFC HP Officejet 6110 (USB), a parallel HP Laserjet 4L. It would not work with a newer HP LaserJet 1020, it shows it offline and would not change or print." HP Officejet 6110: See Cesar's comments for HP Laserjet 4L	HP LaserJet 1020: See Cesar's comments for HP Laserjet 4L.
D-Link DPR-1260
Manufacturer's List	Works	Doesn't work
	Canon Pixma 4200: Lukas reports "without any problem " Epson Stylus CX-5400: David reports "As a printer, this device works fine. It will not detect as a scanner at all." Brother MFC-7420: Printing works fine but it doesn't detect the scanner to allow network scanning so I wouldn't bet on anything other than models listed as supported working fully with this unit. Printing & scannin