tampamark

I will definitely need 5 wireless print servers, one as a receiver for each of the printers. The printers will be 20 feet apart so I couldn't use a single print server with multiple parallel ports. I will use the single wireless router on the computer side to transmit to the five wireless (d-link or hp jetdirect) receivers. Meat freezer is correct, this is a food production facility and it is COLD. Thanks! Mark.

There will be no other computers attached to these printers. The printers are to be distributed through a 100' x 100' room in different work cells, the only device attached to the printers will be the wireless print server. All print requests will initiate from the central computer with the wireless router, once the print job is transmitted to the server/printer it will carry that print job through a couple of hours. So there will be no sharing involved. This particular production room is a very harsh environment, 32 degrees with 80% humidity. The central computer will be a $7,000 climate proof tough station, the printers are solid metal thermal that run $3,000 each. That is the reason for one computer... That is funny you reference that article, I read it earlier in a goole search. It references more the opposite, many computers on a wireless router communicating with one printer (it looks like they specify a wired printer). Anyway, I want exactly the opposite, 5 printers with wireless print server and one hard wired pc to wireless router. Thanks for the input! Mark.

Hello, Just to give my background I am a fairly expert user, I just don't have any experience with this particular scenario so I am short cutting to other experts. I would like to have setup 5 printers distributed through a production room for one of my clients. They will have a central computer that is not networked cotnrolling these 5 printers. I will have a wireless router attached to the standalone PC and 5 wireless print servers attached to the parallel port of each printer. Is it fairly straight forward to setup the wireless links in this fashion? This is a bit outside of my area of expertise and I just wanted a warm and fuzzy that I am heading in the right direction. If you guys say yes, I am off to purchase a print server to initially test. Thanks in advance for your help, Mark.