| Value |  3.5 | | Performance | 3.5 | | Ease of Use | 3.5 | | Overall Satisfaction |  3 |
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5 of 5 Works very well, easy to setup Wednesday, June 11, 2008
A Customer from Fair Lawn, NJ
Works very well and can support up to three printers, 1 parallel and 2 USB. Quite usefull when you need to support a older parallel dot matrix printer on newer hardware that has no paralell ports. Can also easily share the same printer on the network with others PCs. Was this review helpful?  
5 of 5 Does what it says Monday, March 03, 2008
A Customer from Denver, CO
I was expecting I might have an issue with the ip address since many network devices now days default to 192.168.0.1, as this does. However, the utility on the CD made it a simple task to change it to something that will work with my network and once that was done, the setup utilities made the task of switching from the print server I had been using to server up my two printers (an old PC running Windows 98) to this a snap. Great value! Was this review helpful?
3 of 5 No Status Window Tuesday, February 26, 2008
A Customer from Roxbury, NY
You must read the manual which is on the CD to get this configured properly, the booklet just won't do it. I finally got everything working, but then learned that my status window on the Canon Pixma IP4000 printer won't work with this. It won't send the info back through the server to the computer. So I have no way to know if my ink is low or which tank has gone empty. If I had known that that feature would be missing, I would not have bought this. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Good Product Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A Customer from New York, NY
Was easy to attach to the network & printers, but had a problem finding the ip address. Our IT guy gave me one, and we are working just fine. Even seems to print a little faster than the print server we had before. I recomend this product. Was this review helpful?
2 of 5 Is your printer really going to work???? Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Tom J. from Hampton, VA
Beware of this product, I have a HP photosmart and when I ran into trouble and called TRENDNET tech support they pointed out that this and many of HP and other home caliber printers are NOT network printers. A small detail that they do a poor job of pointing out in there advertizing. So, check out your printer before you believe these other reviews... Was this review helpful?
1 of 5 Do you have a network compatiable printer?? Thursday, October 18, 2007
t.w.jones from Hampton, VA
That detail is poorly emphasized on this manufacturers product. While the advertising states "transforms virtually any standalone USB or Parallel network printer", it reads as though both a standalone USB or Parallel network printer can use this device. Be advised that is not the case. This product will not work with most consumer grade HP printers (Photosmart, Deskjet, etc.) The bottom line, do your homework or you will end up with a $100 paper weight.... Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Works great , manual stinks Tuesday, September 25, 2007
A Customer from ny,ny
User guide is wrong. Call in support is marginal, but Their website has the correct setup information for windows XP.
Despite wrong manual for XP, it works great. It's a pleasure to let the family print to a choice of printers from computers networked on different floors, without needing to power up a computer near the printers.
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1 of 5 beware of compatibility issues Tuesday, September 18, 2007
long time buy.com customer from Reading PA
Received this product & it worked great with my parallel printer, but my USB printer was a differnet story. Called tech support & after an hour wait, a female tech told me there is a printer compatibility list that is not published anywhere, but if your printer is not on it, it will not work. She routed me to the sales department who told me they have no female techs & I would have to call back again. Horrible support!!!! Was this review helpful?
1 of 5 Flaky print server but worse support Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Paul from Dallas, TX
I hooked up this print server in a minute or two. My pc could talk to it. The print server could talk to the printer. I could print a test page successfully from the print server. I could not get my pc to print anything more than the first word or two of a doc. Trendnet's online manual gave different instructions than the manual that came with print server. Their first tier tech support was useless. They promised a follow up from 2nd level support. That was about a week ago. No response. The unit is going back. Was this review helpful?
1 of 5 This product sucks Wednesday, July 11, 2007
A Customer from NJ
This print server sucks at too may levels.
1. The instructions are bare-bones. If there is a glitch you have to figure it out yourself.
2. The instruction manual is a joke especially the troubleshooting section. For every FAQ the standard reply is "Check your printer connection" or some such verbiage.
3. I have two old printers - an HP Laserjet 5P from the late 90s and a HP Officejet G55 which is slightly more recent. The Laserjet has a parallel interface while the Officejet is USB. I could get the Laserjet to print but no dice with the Officejet.
4. Customer service is non-existent. After waiting for half an hour I was told to leave my number and someone would call me back. Yeah right. After two hours I'm still waiting.
5. The product is extremely flaky. It works with some printers but not with others. But neither the manual nor the website gives you any assistance with this. If you buy this print server or, I suspect, any product from trendnet, let it be at your own risk.
I am thinking of cutting my losses and dumping this junk. Too many hours spent in making this work. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Fast and easy to use Saturday, June 02, 2007
A Customer from Washington, DC
I was pleasantly surprised with how simple and fast it was to configure this print server. It was up and running in within 15 minutes, and has kept running without any additional effort on my part for the past four months.
This item does a require a little bit of networking knowledge and imagination in order to configure it for use in your network. But, then again, you probably shouldn't be ordering this item if you didn't have such knowledge.
I had previously used a Netgear Print Server. The TRENDNET print server is better in three ways:
1) It's accessible from inside and outside of the local LAN segment.
2) It does not require the installation of any special software on client computers in order to get it to work.
3) Network enables up to three printers.
Highly recommended. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great Answer For Printer Sharing Problem Monday, May 21, 2007
Jerry from Washington Township, New Jersey
Easy set up and configuration. I have it attached to a Linksys Wireless router and it works flawlessly. Also solved the problem of running an HP parallel printer (Laserjet 5L) with new computers with no parallel ports. I highly recommend it for sharing printers in a network. Was this review helpful?
1 of 5 DO NOT BUY!! Friday, April 06, 2007
A Customer from Peoria, IL
VERY, VERY Slow!!! Used to share Dymo usb printer for stamps and was 60 secs between printing each label.
Very poor performance. Was this review helpful?
1 of 5 piece of junk, barely adequate Mac support Thursday, March 29, 2007
gray from Boston, MA
I wasted a lot of time on this piece of junk and returned it the day after I bought it. Maybe the windows support is ok but the Macintosh support is _barely_ adequate. The manual is vapor so expect to do a lot of searches on their terrible homepage. I had to infer configuration information from other models to get it to work. It never detected the printer right, half of the options on the damn internal web config I could not find documentation for, the Bonjour/Rendezvous printing never worked, IPP didn't work, and although the product description says it supports these, the FAQ answer I found on the website says to use lpr/lpd.
After a couple of hours and a very bad taste in my mouth, I returned it and got an Airport Express for $99. Worked within 5 minutes of plugging it in. Detected the right printer and driver and just works. Oh, and the Airport Express is a wireless router as well. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Works wonderfully Sunday, March 18, 2007
A Customer from City, State
The installation instructions are good. Once it was configured, printing to it was easy from anywhere in my network. It just plain works.
I'm using it to print to a USB printer. Printing through the print server is just fine, but you lose some of the bidirectional functionality that would be available if the printer were directly connected through a USB connection (such as determining the amount of ink left within the printer from the printer software running on the computer, etc.) Was this review helpful?
4 of 5 Mostly satisfied Wednesday, February 14, 2007
A Customer from Seattle, WA
The print server setup is quick. It announces itself on your network very nicely, so mapping a printer to the port is a piece of cake.
The LPT port works like a dream. The USB ports however do have problems communicating to the All in One type printers. I'm sure I can resolve the communication issues, however it may require using a RAW driver instead of the advanced Windows driver that came with the printer. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Easy Install Sunday, February 11, 2007
A Customer from Satellite Beach,FL
Plugged in and works Great. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Great Printer Server for the money Monday, October 09, 2006
A Customer from Georgia
I have HP printers at home. The hp printers were a little difficult to set up, but, once I figured out how to configure the computer settings & made the printers local, it worked perfect. Great product & works just as advertised. Would purchase the item again. I was afraid of the server due to the inexpensive price & the fact that it offered so much with 2 usb ports & a serial connection, but the product is worth the small price. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Very easy to setup Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Happy from Los Angeles, CA
I was expecting to change my PC's IP address to setup this print server, but small utility program on the installation CDROM found this print server and I was able to change the IP address of this device with in a few minuets after connecting the device. I have been setting up so many SOHO network devices and this is the simplest network experience ever! At this time I connected Lexmark laser printer (USB port) and Epson dot matrix printer(Centrix port), and it just works. Was this review helpful?
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5 of 5 Here is YOUR new network print server!! ;) Sunday, May 21, 2006
David from Milwaukee, WI
This little print server is AWESOME!! Easy to set up, configure; it simply works GREAT!!! Don't use a computer to share printers on your network, use this device instead!! I have 2 HP printers working on our home wireless network and this device is a champ!! Even though HP says their printers will "only work with a HP print server" (HP Jet Direct card or print server) don't worry about it. I have an OfficeJet 6210 and an old LaserJet 6P printing happily here. You can use a web browser to look at the device, configure it and it even captures the MAC address AND IP of the devices that have printed to it! Furthermore it tracks the number of jobs that have printed listed by IP as well as their corresponding size! WOW!!! Can't beat this for the price either!!! You GOTTA get one of these...... Was this review helpful?
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