Paul A. Luzzi

March 2, 2011

Well, this turns out to be the first post this year, but there has been much activity just not a lot of posting about it. Most recently I took a troublesome print server out of the mix. I was using a Linksys WPSM54g to USB connect my HP LaserJet 2550 color laser printer to the network. The printer comes with parallel and usb connections, and when connected via either method to a pc, it was flawless. But using the USB connection to the WPSM54g was troublesome. After any settings change on the WPSM54g, the USB link would drop. And after every single print job, the USB would drop. To restore, I had to unplug the usb from the WPSM54g, then power cycle the WPSM54g, then plug the USB back in again. Simply pulling the USB alone wasnt enough, nor was power cycling the WPSM54g. What I found did work, is to pull the USB from the printer side, wait 2 seconds, then reinsert. But that was too much to tolerate for every print job – especially now that its network connected. The resolution was to get a Linksys WPS54gu2 which offers both USB and parallel connections. Setting up the parallel made all my problems go away and now it never loses connection.