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Your cart is empty.This palm sized 1-port USB 2.0 Print Server allows any networked computer to share a USB printer. It complies with USB 2.0 specifications (backward compatible with USB 1.1 spec.) and provides users with an auto-sensing Ethernet port that works with either 10Base-T or 100Base-T networks. This unit also supports multiple protocols and multiple operating systems The built-in web management feature provides more convenience by allowing the user to configure monitor and even reset the print server via a web browser. This eliminates the need to place the printer right next to the computer. Print jobs can be sent to a printer in another country just as easily as to a printer in the same office. Why bother sending a degraded fax image while you can print an original at the destination? Features Easily connect your USB printer to a network Allows multiple computers to share one USB printer on the network Print from any computer on your network Supports DHCP Client and multiple network protocols 10Base-T / 100Base-T auto-sensing Supports Telnet and Web Management software NOTE: While the print functions on a compatible Multi-function printer may work other functions such as scanning may not. Drivers and Manual:
JCR
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2024
I was a little skeptical about trying this since the reviews were pretty mixed. I have a Brother HL-L3290CDW which is a great printer, but within the past year or so has been having issues staying connected to WiFi. Since it does not have an Ethernet port built-in, my only option was to awkwardly connect my laptop to USB when I needed to print something. But otherwise, the printer itself still worked fine, so I didn't want to replace it.This little USB print server saved my printer! Setup was easy, just connect the USB side to the printer, plug the Ethernet side into your router or switch. It comes with a CD with some setup software - I'm sure if you don't have a CD drive on your device, you can find this software online as well (my laptop does not have a CD drive, but my desktop PC does - so I copied the files off of the CD and put them on a USB drive so I could install on my laptop). The software itself is basic with only a few options, the first option runs through a wizard which finds the USB print server device on your network, shows the printer model that the USB print server detected, and allows you to install the printer on your PC. You may have to go to your printer manufacturer's website to download print drivers if your PC doesn't have them automatically.After the initial setup, the printer appeared in my list of printers, and print jobs were now making it through every time, instead of about 25% of the time using the printer's WiFi connection. I'm very happy I tried this device and would recommend it if you have a printer without WiFi / Ethernet, or a printer with a problematic WiFi connection like mine.EDIT: Both my laptop and desktop are Windows 11. The product details don't list support for Windows 11, but I haven't had any issues.
Andrei
Reviewed in Canada on February 12, 2023
Easy set up. Working as intended!
SRINIVASA BHAGAVANULU DURVASULA
Reviewed in India on October 31, 2023
This product not suitable in my system
On T.
Reviewed in Canada on May 16, 2022
Working with Win 11 (used Win 8 install). Don't have CD on new PCs, was very hard to find old PC with CD to copy the needed application! No mention of the product name or ID to google for support.Would not recommend
Joseph A.
Reviewed in Canada on October 19, 2022
Both the online literature and enclosed literature in the Box were in contradiction regarding wether my HP LaserJet p1005 printer would work I ended up calling Monoprice and they said it would definitely work both myself and my neighbor who's a computer programmer tried it endlessly with mono prices suggestions and it still didn't work piece of junk
Anurag
Reviewed in India on April 1, 2022
I have ordered one it didn't work at all in windows 7 (print crashes every time), windows server 2016 and 2019 printers won't get added, these are mostly buggy software and not updated, better go with Netgear router with USB (readyshare print) cheaper and works flawlessly
Chris
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2016
I bought to try and connect my HP LaserJet 1320 to my Windows 10 PC. It didn't work. Setting it up was a breeze -- simply plug it in, and it powers up and uses DHCP to assign an IP address to itself. The web UI is minimal. The included software appears to work for setting up a printer just fine, and is much easier to use than setting up LPR printers manually under Windows 10.But whenever I went to print something, nothing came out of the printer. No lights flashed on the printer, so it wasn't even receiving any data. The web UI is so simple it provided... zero debug information so I could tell what might have failed, or if it even received the document.Guess it doesn't work.Note that the description above fails to mention two things: (a) the box and manual says it is only tested to work with versions of Windows up to Windows 7; and (b) there is a relatively short list of printers it is "compatible" with -- and my LaserJet 1320 is not on the list.Oh well.
Walt Coleman
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2016
This thing works great... so long as you are comfortable getting things configured manually.It appears things CAN be configured automatically IF your printer is one of the select few supported by the software. In my case, my printer was not supported. However, my printer can communicate via LPR protocol therefore it DOES work with this product. FWIW, My printer was manufactured in the mid 2000's and I'm printing to it via numerous computers running Windows 10 Pro.In my case (because my printer was not supported), I had to:1. Statically assign an IP address to the print server2. Manually configure the printer on each client computer to use a TCP/IP port (pointed at the statically assigned IP address of the print server), and then3. Specify that the manually configured TCP/IP printer port use the LPR protocol.Voila, printing!One small point of issue I had with the product was the packaging. It says "Wired or Wireless Printing" in big letters on the box. Printing is only wireless IF the print server is connected (by wire) to a router hosting a wireless access point. This product is a wired print server. Period.
Alan Wheeler
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015
This USB print server is compact, inexpensive and does exactly what it was designed to do. It comes with a CD that has a utility to access and configure the device but I didn't bother with that. The MAC address is printed on the bottom of the device, so after I plugged it in I went into my router's config and looked at the list of DHCP clients to verify that it was connecting to my LAN properly. That gave me the IP address assigned to the device. I was then able to enter that IP address in my browser's URL field and access the admin page for the print server. Later, I configured the router to assign a static IP for the device to make it easier to configure my printer. Once that was done, I just added a standard TCP/IP port in Windows' printer config window with the assigned IP address, selected LPR as the protocol, accepted the other default settings, and the printer works perfectly. I'm using Windows 8.1 on my machine, but this device should work just fine with any version of Windows from XP to 10, as well as Linux, I would assume. The manual claims that this device will support other types of USB peripherals such as scanners, multi-function printers and storage devices, but I didn't test that functionality, so I can't comment on how it handles those other peripherals. If you need to network a USB-only printer though, it would be hard to go wrong with this little server.
David Barriger
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013
Worked with all workstations except my wife new laptop that is a windows 8 system. That information listed up front, would have been helpfulGood product for those that did work.
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