Help networking two epson printers?

[munckee]

I have an older epson 1280 (the off-white version, not the newer silver one) and a new-ish epson C86. I'd like to, if possible, set them up to print wirelessly over our apartment network so that my roommate and I can each print to them from across the room. We already have a linksys wireless router up and running.

Can anyone explain what exactly I need to do to set this up? Are my printers even able to be networked in this manner? If so, am I missing anything that needs to be purchased, or is just a setup issue? Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[Reflow]

I have an older epson 1280 (the off-white version, not the newer silver one) and a new-ish epson C86. I'd like to, if possible, set them up to print wirelessly over our apartment network so that my roommate and I can each print to them from across the room. We already have a linksys wireless router up and running.

Can anyone explain what exactly I need to do to set this up? Are my printers even able to be networked in this manner? If so, am I missing anything that needs to be purchased, or is just a setup issue? Any help would be much appreciated!

Get a USB printserver.

 

[rogersmj]

There are devices you can buy, like a USB print server, that will allow you to hook your printers into them and then hook that device into your router. With normal (non-network) printers, that's pretty much your only option. However, if you want both printers to be hooked up to the network like that, then you'll need to buy two devices.

 

[munckee]

Thanks. Once I've got them hooked up to the router, what other setup is involved in terms of software or anything like that?

 

[munckee]

Does "multi-port" mean that I could use it to hook up more than one printer with just one USB print server?