Buffalo Technology LPV3-U2 Network USB 2.0 Print Server

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $49.75

Features:

• Converts a USB printer into a shared network printer
• Simple and quick installation
• Print out files and pictures remotely
• Supports 10/100 network
• Compatible with any USB-enabled printer

Customer Reviews:

Working great on Windows and OS X! [Posted on 2008-03-12]
I'm writing this mostly to thank John S. Lyon Smith, whose review should be called "Buffalo Print Server: the Missing Manual." Following his instructions, the print server installed with no problems. The provided setup CD couldn't even find the device and was useless.

A Great Product-Tech support are idiots! [Posted on 2008-03-18]
My thanks also goes out to John S. Lyon Smith. His post did what almost 3 hours of tech support from both Buffalo and Linksys could not do, namely get my printer to work with my Macbook.....These companies need to hire persons like him to develop their manuals....I was told by Buffalo that their server would not even work with my HP P1100 PhotoPrinter (this was after 3 hours of telephone support) and, once I followed Mr. Smith's steps, it worked perfectly.

Dan
Danbury, CT

Perfect on XP - took a while to get it working in OS X [Posted on 2008-04-18]
Well, now that it works, it's a nice thing to have :-)
After a lot of tinkering, I finally got it to work under OS X by activating AppleTalk.
P1 did show up in de printer list (as P1 Bonjour) and I was able to install the printer, but it never printed anything. The print job just stopped after a few seconds.
I then activated AppleTalk on my Mac (Tiger 10.4.11), installed the second P1 that appeared in the printer list, tried printing and still nothing happened (print job kept saying "printing"), so back to tinkering.
Then after about half an hour, suddenly the printer started printing the P1 AppleTalk printjob.
I then decided to reboot my machine and lo and behold, now it works perfectly.
So, Buffalo, please rewrite yer manual for this one.

Avoid this trash [Posted on 2008-05-26]
Complete garbage. Forget about getting this to work with a Mac. You may be able to get it to work temporarily with Windows, but every time your printer is powered down you will have to configure everything all over again.

The manual is a bizarre joke, as if made for some other product.

Two one-hour calls to their clueless tech support staff both ended with the technicians giving up.

AVOID THIS PRODUCT, YOU WILL BE WASTING YOUR MONEY.

won't work with multifunction printers [Posted on 2008-09-30]
It does not indicate anywhere that this print server can not work with a multifunction printer. In fact, even the manufacturer's own tech support didn't know. I spent over 20 hours trying to get this thing working until finally the tech support figured out the problem. It may be an excellent print server for regular printers, but buyer beware: if you have a multifunction printer - this will not work!

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