Query on iMac <--> printer communication

Post #304,076 by Ashton 2/12/09 11:31:47 PM Reply	Query on iMac <--> printer communication Minimalist 'network', in lieu of dangling / long USB cable envisioned: Would Airport talk directly to a printer, sans any router? (Though I have a couple here for trial, if it comes to that.) Haven't discovered the power output / receiver sens. of either the Canon or iMac-Airport board, but this is <~20 feet. Would that not also require, if wise, a s/ware firewall (set to recognize only printer's MAC address?) Maybe that's nontrivial w/Airport ... seems like it's usually a router cum transceiver task, covering both wired and broadcast. (Also unclear if my trial copy of NetBarrier X5 can be ambidextrous re. modem and Airport traffic.) (I'm not yet to the setup of a link re. hi-speed access, attendant router/firewall + cable-modem and more arcane details. Antennas + local help will happen on that, whenever..)
Post #304,087 by Meerkat 2/13/09 9:14:41 AM Reply	Apple's 'Airport Express' might do the trick More info here: http://www.apple.com...res/printing.html But there may well be generic versions available for less. I don't have any use for printer at home, so I'm afraid I'm not speaking from experience. Sorry if it's not much help, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right? They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
Post #304,128 by Ashton 2/13/09 5:46:47 PM Reply	Well, you'd believe that ..'cause you be soo gullible... ;^> Guess I have to find out how the guts work; just naively figured: 'Airport' be an RF transceiver; ditto in modrin gussied-up 'printer/fax/scan/coffee' makers. Why the failure t'communicate? (Then there's Bluetooth: yan transceiver. That's TWO! WTF need we a Third gadget, with all this built-in comm stuff?) I mean.. we're talking a few feet here. A few microvolts/m. It's pretty, it's tiny ... costs ~same as my 38# PRINTER! (Profit much?) Seems to be an AP -- but why isn't That a-part-of this alleged 'wireless' USB printer ?? By that def'n: ANY USB-printer is "wireless" !? (I must be missing something.) Guess Canon omitted its own 'access point' == so it IS as much a' wireless-printer' as any other USB-printer. Bloody marketing-speak lies. {sigh} Thanks for tip; looks like I have to use the gear next needed for the HS-link, probably access printer via router. But sure like the teensy Apple solution, however costly VS the industrial-grade-ugly of most.
Post #304,129 by a6l6e6x 2/13/09 6:33:35 PM Reply	See if last post helps you here: http://forums.macrum...read.php?t=251123 Alex
Post #304,131 by Another Scott 2/13/09 6:45:15 PM Reply	Zounds!
Post #304,146 by Ashton 2/14/09 2:33:25 AM Reply	Wow !!________________just ... ... WOW!! Thanks - it's a start. While it's not bafflegab, it sure sounds like a Beastware recipe to get your ASR-33 going. Just perhaps the encryption ritual (re. new std) has improved somewhat since 11/06. But there's damn little there that intuition might guess, so I'd need to get Canon to e-mail an equivalent cookbook (as, presumably, was read off a script -- developed after many bewildered calls.) Then too, I'd like Not to go with Canon's CD-full of whatever extra stuff. If it can possibly be skipped. (Maybe their techs do not want to follow that route; guess I'll find out.) The folded 2-pp Mac Wireless Setup speaks only of an 'AP'; does not even consider you might want Just The Printer to connect. Hah.. Google mind-box type-in: Canon Pixma MP620 setup from iMac Airport direct to printer, got: http://discussions.a...?threadID=1750354 (-- got 3900 hits.) An exact answer appears: no 'ad hoc' mode supported by Canon Re: Printer Canon Pixma MP620, Wifi problem Posted: Jan 21, 2009 12:18 PM in response to: woodenlore The guy in the Apple store was wrong. You cannot connect the printer directly to the Mac via wireless (Airport). This is called ad-hoc mode. The printer only supports infrastructure mode, where a base station provides the wireless service. So you will need some sort of wireless router, such as an Airport Express, between the Mac and the MP620. PaHu And ... PAHU is from Oz!! (Jeez.. who cares? if someone mistakenly sends you some pron over the aether and you waste a couple hundred pages before you're Sure you want to interrupt the job?) But then, even I know that 64-bit encryption of anything is pretty dumb in '09, if that is correct limit on er, "ad-hoc mode" (??) Sounds as if, in '06 Canon did provide for wide-open (maybe so coffee house denizens could print while sipping?) So I wait for the whole-hog-install; meanwhile it's just a wired-USB printer. Still, a lot of gadgetry for ~$3/#
Post #304,150 by Meerkat 2/14/09 7:29:39 AM Reply	Good grief. I suddenly wish Apple still made printers... They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
Post #304,149 by Bman 2/14/09 4:11:02 AM Reply	Ashton did you read this Easy Setup Instructions For Apple AirPort Wireless Networks http://www.usa.canon...DownloadDetailAct "Pictures are better then words because some words are big and hard to understand" Peter Griffin (Family Guy)
Post #304,184 by Ashton 2/15/09 4:57:34 AM Reply	Thanks. Checking it out.

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