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Mac Forum / General / General / May 2008Using airport to share printer and scanner from several workstations
I have a classroom with a dozen G5 Mac Pros running Tiger and we want to allow them to use a couple of A3 photo-quality inkjet printers and a couple of flatbed scanners. I see that the airport base station extreme only has one usb port. Is it possible to use one airport extreme base station to connect all of these peripherals, add airport cards to each Mac Pro, and be able to use any of the printers or scanners from any of the Macs? What other equipment is necessary? Should we look to buy any specific printers or scanners that will be more compatible? Is there some other approach that will work better? Thanks for any advice. > I have a classroom with a dozen G5 Mac Pros running Tiger and we want to > allow them to use a couple of A3 photo-quality inkjet printers and a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > these peripherals, add airport cards to each Mac Pro, and be able to use > any of the printers or scanners from any of the Macs? You can attach multiple printers and hard drives to the base station with a USB hub. To the best of my knowledge the base station does not share scanners. You'll also probably be interested in this page: <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070118020953464> G  Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix Thanks, Gregory. Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or two? >> I have a classroom with a dozen G5 Mac Pros running Tiger and we want to >> allow them to use a couple of A3 photo-quality inkjet printers and a [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > G > Thanks, Gregory. > Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or two? [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > > > G Would be nice if I only had to reply to the OP, once. You could use a USB Server like the Keyspan US-4A to do that job. Works for "Me". SignatureBruce in alaska add <path> after <fast> to reply > Thanks, Gregory. > Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or two? That functionality (as well as printer sharing) is actually part of the stock OS install so you could just hang the scanners off of a couple of the machines. Scanner sharing is accessed through the Image Capture application that should be in your /Applications folder. I have no firsthand experience with it; for my environment it's just as sensible to scan locally and then transfer the resulting file to the machine where I need it (if necessary). I'll fiddle with it if you need me to, though. Greg Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix > > Thanks, Gregory. > > Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or two? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > then transfer the resulting file to the machine where I need it (if > necessary). I'll fiddle with it if you need me to, though. Are you sure about that? If scanner sharing is built into Mac OS X, that's news to me! SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > > > Thanks, Gregory. > > > Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Are you sure about that? If scanner sharing is built into Mac OS X, > that's news to me! I was looking at the config screen as I typed that message, and I recall it begin there since at least the 10.3 era. Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix > > > > Thanks, Gregory. > > > > Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I was looking at the config screen as I typed that message, and I recall > it begin there since at least the 10.3 era. What config screen? SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > > > > Scanner sharing is accessed through the Image Capture application that > > > > should be in your /Applications folder. I have no firsthand experience [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > What config screen? In 10.3 and 10.4 it's the Sharing tab of Image Capture's Preferences window (and I was on a 10.4 machine when I wrote that message). In 10.5, it's accessed through the Sharing button in the browser window that's accessible under the Devices menu. And, following up the older message: I have firsthand experience with it now. My MacBook running 10.5 was able to use the scanner connected to my G5 running 10.4 without issue. But I still think it's more convenient to use the scanner locally and transfer the result unless someone else is using the machine with the scanner. Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix > > > > > Scanner sharing is accessed through the Image Capture application > > > > > that [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > use the scanner locally and transfer the result unless someone else is > using the machine with the scanner. Very interesting. I've never seen that before. Or maybe it's just I've never seen it *working* before. What's the trick to get the scanner to show up in the Devices list? My AGFA 1212u doesn't show up there. SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > > In 10.3 and 10.4 it's the Sharing tab of Image Capture's Preferences > > window (and I was on a 10.4 machine when I wrote that message). [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > never seen it *working* before. What's the trick to get the scanner to > show up in the Devices list? My AGFA 1212u doesn't show up there. From what I can tell it needs a driver that supports the Image Capture Architecture introduced with OS X 10.2 or later, or alternatively works with some (but implied by the docs, not *all*) TWAIN sources. Signature"Harry?" Ron's voice was a mere whisper. "Do you smell something ... burning?" - Harry Potter and the Odor of the Phoenix > I have a classroom with a dozen G5 Mac Pros running Tiger and we want to > allow them to use a couple of A3 photo-quality inkjet printers and a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Thanks for any advice. You can share printing from any Mac with an Airport card. The printers do not have to be plugged into your base station. You can plug the extra printers into the Macs and set up printer sharing. You'll want to use the Macs that are most often running, however, since the computer does have to be on (not sleeping) to share. This is how I have our home network set up (3 Macs w/a 4th soon + Airport Extreme base station + laser printer + scanner + many hard drives + inkjet printer). Note that the only thing plugged into my base station is my DSL and it's way at the other end of the house. Madeleine |
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