The Wireless Usb Printer Server is a useful minuscule device which enables you to connect a Usb inkjet, deskjet or laserjet printer to an existing wired or wireless network (not both at the same time) plainly by connecting it's Usb port to the Usb port of your printer. A typical wireless Usb print server has a Usb port (which is associated to the printers Usb port via a Usb cable), an elective Rj45 network port (for wired connectivity to a Network Router) and an inbuilt wireless receiver to receive signals from the wireless router on the network.
Before the introduction of the Wireless Printer Server the general way a Usb printer could be made available to network users was by connecting it to a specific computer and sharing it through the computers operating ideas so that network users could send print jobs to it, this meant that not only would that computer have to be on to enable printing but it also had to use it's resources to mange print jobs sent to the printer, this would be manageable to some extent in a home environment but in an office the question would be accentuated once you start experiencing crashes, slowdowns and interruptions that occur on the typical office computer when under heavy usage, not to mention the fact that anyone work that is currently being done on that computer would have to be interrupted whenever there is a printing question that needs sorting out, the alternative at the time would have been to buy an costly network enabled printer.
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There are assorted makes and models of Wireless Usb printer servers, some are dedicated Printer Servers having either a single Usb or manifold Usb ports (to enable more than one Usb printer to be added to the network), some models are a mixture of Router and Printer Server, giving you both wireless network connectivity and wireless printing connectivity functionality all in one.
The top Wireless Printer Server manufacturers are: Netgear, Belkin, Hewlett Packard (Hp), Hawking, Linksys, Trendnet and D-Link to name a few. Commonly a Wireless Usb print server will be slower at printing large files than a dedicated wired network printer, but the speed is still sufficient for all but large volumes of images and the convenience more than makes up for it.
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