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Hawking HPS1P 10/100M Parallel Print Server
Features:- Compact size
- Easily connect your printer to a network
- Print anywhere over the Internet/Intranet
- Easy to install and use
- Parallel Port only
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $99.74Our Price: $59.95 You Save: $39.79 (40%)Prices subject to change.
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - worth the money, and a little trouble
This was my second try, having first failed with the equivalent Netgear server despite over an hour on the phone with their tech support. This one is better made, has better---although far from perfect---installation software. Installation went well until it came to the installation of the printer, at which point the installation program appeared to hang. I restarted the computer and called tech support, but in the course of the cal I found that the installation had gone all right. A second call was needed to help me get a different computer connected to the server, but it was handled with skill an patience by the tech. (Maybe I was lucky, but I had good service twice.) I like my old HP LaserJet 5MP printer and this print server made it possible for me to keep it.
I've only had it up and running for a few hours, but it appears to work just fine. I only wish that they had made it smaller, because I had to saw out the cable opening at the back of the printer in order to accommodate the HPS1P. All in all, I'm quite satisfied with the unit.
Rating:  - Please stay away
This is my first posting towards any product that I have bought online. I consider myself to be very tech saavy and was in need of an ethernet enabled print server. For some reason in my mind, I wanted to save money and buy something that I thought was simple enough to design and make, so I could trust any manufacture. BOY WAS I WRONG!
I could go on and on, why YOU should stay away fromt this product. I regret the day I bought it. I feel so strongly against it, that I actually took the time to write a review.
Some things I hate about it:
1. Abnormal addition to the 'add printer' dialogue in winXP. I have added printers via a print server and the hawkings folk, decided to use a very counter intuitive way of setting it up.
2. Crashes, when you need to print large documents, this thing goes nuts.
3. When multiple computers are sending jobs I don't know what to expect.
4. NO Power saving features. I like to turn off my printer when I'm not using it, well that means I also have to restart the print server as well, I can't just leave it on.
Overall this product is a piece of CRAP spend the money and get something good!
Rating:  - Installation was a piece of cake!
This device works perfectly. The installation was seamless. I did make one call to customer support, and gave up before they answered... but as it turns out, I didn't need their help anyway. It couldn't have been any easier.
Rating: - No support, very poorly implemented.
There re much better and easier products out there. Imagine having to send the thing back to the manufacturer because it can't be reset? During config, the first one stopped responding. It can't be reset, so it went back. The second one had driver issues on three out of four windows xp systems.
They're all returned now. Avoid this product at all cost.
Rating: - piece of junk...
Gave trouble from day one -- Tried to upgrade firmware, upgrade faled, and it's non-working now...
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