Comments on: BROTHER HL-2170W – PRINTER – B/W – LASER – LETTER, A4 – 2400 DPI X 600 DPI – UP TO 22 PPM – CAPACITY: 250 SHEETS – USB, 802.11B, 10/100BASE-TX, 802.11G http://www.california-screen-printers.com/brother-hl-2170w-printer-bw-laser-letter-a4-2400-dpi-x-600-dpi-up-to-22-ppm-capacity-250-sheets-usb-802-11b-10100base-tx-802-11g/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:39:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joseph Ekaitis http://www.california-screen-printers.com/brother-hl-2170w-printer-bw-laser-letter-a4-2400-dpi-x-600-dpi-up-to-22-ppm-capacity-250-sheets-usb-802-11b-10100base-tx-802-11g/comment-page-1/#comment-1693 Joseph Ekaitis Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:53:44 +0000 http://www.california-screen-printers.com/brother-hl-2170w-printer-bw-laser-letter-a4-2400-dpi-x-600-dpi-up-to-22-ppm-capacity-250-sheets-usb-802-11b-10100base-tx-802-11g/#comment-1693 Printer sharing was a great idea but its days are numbered. You already know how it goes: You're in the family room with a laptop and you need to print something on the printer attached to the desktop in the bedroom that's become the home office. You click the Print icon and then make the pilgrimage to wake up the desktop or call out and hope someone's near enough to wake it up. <br /> <br />This printer fit right into our Mac household which includes a MacBook that occasionally runs Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. The WiFi setup was delightfully boring using the network cable method. And, hey, who DOESN'T have an extra network cable around the house? You follow the step-by-step instructions without compromising your WiFi security. When you're finished, you unplug the network cable and you're printing wirelessly (is that a real word?) from anywhere in the house. <br /> <br />Setting up the printer in Windows via Boot Camp was like adding any other network printer. I needed only to pick the IP address of the printer itself (not the wireless print server's IP address) and in seconds a Windows XP Printer Test Page floated into the output tray. Ubuntu found the printer all by itself and installed its own CUPS (Common UNIX Printing Solution) driver. <br /> <br />If at least half of what you print is black and white text and you already have a wireless router, you NEED this printer. Inkjet ink is just too expensive for that, and printer sharing is SO last century. Printer sharing was a great idea but its days are numbered. You already know how it goes: You’re in the family room with a laptop and you need to print something on the printer attached to the desktop in the bedroom that’s become the home office. You click the Print icon and then make the pilgrimage to wake up the desktop or call out and hope someone’s near enough to wake it up.

This printer fit right into our Mac household which includes a MacBook that occasionally runs Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. The WiFi setup was delightfully boring using the network cable method. And, hey, who DOESN’T have an extra network cable around the house? You follow the step-by-step instructions without compromising your WiFi security. When you’re finished, you unplug the network cable and you’re printing wirelessly (is that a real word?) from anywhere in the house.

Setting up the printer in Windows via Boot Camp was like adding any other network printer. I needed only to pick the IP address of the printer itself (not the wireless print server’s IP address) and in seconds a Windows XP Printer Test Page floated into the output tray. Ubuntu found the printer all by itself and installed its own CUPS (Common UNIX Printing Solution) driver.

If at least half of what you print is black and white text and you already have a wireless router, you NEED this printer. Inkjet ink is just too expensive for that, and printer sharing is SO last century.

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