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TRENDnet TE100-P21 is a Fast Ethernet print server that transforms a stand-alone USB or Parallel printer into a shared network printer. The TE100-P21 is compatible with 10Mbps or 100Mbps Ethernet network and it has two USB 2.0 and one Parallel printer port. Network professionals can easily manage the print server using Web Browser and utilize the TE100-P21 to promote productivity in a workgroup environment with low equipment cost.
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Technical Details
- Product Type - PrintServer- Warranty - 5 Years
- - Supports Email Printing and FTP Printing
- - Includes LPR Program for Windows 95/98/ME TCP/IP Printing
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By Raoul Duke (Annapolis, MD)
The print server was DOA out of the box. It was unreachable on the network. The front printer LEDs flashed what appeared to be an error code (1 long, 14 short) without stopping. Trendnet tech support (in India of course) had no idea what that meant. It took almost an hour to satisfy them that the device was broken, even though I had done all conceivable network diagnostics before calling. I have to pay the shipping back to Trendnet and they will not ship a replacement until they receive the defective unit. I am totally nonplussed with Trendnet. I'll update with a review of the print server if I get one that works.
By Joyce Mcnabb (Pigeon, MI)
Supports Native DOS printing which some less expensive print servers don't do and I needed.
By EvilTwin (Portsmouth, VA USA)
I bought this Print Server to replace a Motorola version I have had running for several years. The motorola had some funky software to create the ports the print server needed and it would not work reliably on Win 7.
Before this server, I tried the Dlink 1260, what a piece of crap. Everything that server wasn't, this was.
Installation was a breeze. This is the hardwired version, there is also a wireless version, so I don't know how well that part works. Once you see it on the network, you can start configuring it. The application finds the server and starts the process to configure it. It comes with one parallel output as well as two usb. I have an old HP G85 on the parallel port and a Samsung Laser on one of the usb. Once I loaded the software to configure the port, it let me select the printer based on drivers that were already loaded. It then creates the printer definition and bang, you are there. I had this thing up and running on both printers within ten minutes of hooking it up. So much for the crap Dlink puts out.
Its only been in service about a week, but so far so good. Print servers dont have to do anything fancy in my book, they just have to work, and this one does that fine.
By Joseph R. Balsamo (Boulder, CO)
I tried this unit after having utterly failed with a D-Link DP-300U. I was prepared for another uphill battle with little success but was pleasantly surprised. The instructions are clear, the software installs in a flash and it's very friendly. Although the buttons on the control panel for the software are a little weird, I was able to get through that. One little quirk is that if you try to use your Windows Add Printer software to add a printer to a PC, you will get a strange printer name. If you use their software on ALL computers that you add printers to vs. Windows, the printer names are a lot friendlier. That would be my only complaint and I was able to overcome this by just taking the time to do it a second time. Even with that, I had two wireless and one hardwired network computers talking to two different printers (USB1 and LPT3) in less than 2 hours. Never had to press the on board reset button, which was a requirement I insisted on after my experience with the D-Link.
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By Big Wush (San Diego)
The TE100-P21 Printer Server works great only if you can get passed the installation. The Quick Installation Guide is not helpful especifically when the printers don't print after following the installation steps via the PS-Wizard. Here are a few things to watch out for:
My router recognized the TE100-P21 right after the plug-in which was a good sign. The PS-Wizard also seems to make it easy to add printers because it detected the printers I had previously installed on the computer, so you can actually pick from the known printer list. After I completely the steps and hit the "print test page" button, nothing happened. This is when the trouble started. After fussing with installing and deleting printers, I could not get the printers to print. In the end, I followed some reviewer's suggestion to follow the detail instructions from the User Guide (come with the CD), then it made sense to me that I had an IP address conflict. The default IP address 191.168.0.1 doesn't work but there was no error messages. After I manually changed the IP address to 191.168.1.121 (it can be any IP address within the acceptable range), I got the printers to work. Once I got it working on one PC (Win/XP), repeating the steps on my other two PCs were easy. Now, all three PCs (2000, XP, and Vista) can print to the printers (Samsung MS-2250 and HP 1200) with no problem.
Another lesson learned is that during all the fussing by adding and deleting printers to the TCP/IP port, there is no effect on these changes unless you reboot your PC. So, if you messed up with the initial installation, you should delete everything and start over again with a "factory reset", then reboot your computer. It should work after that.
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