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Hey, so this is the situation....
I have a classroom and had a HP laserjet 2300. About a month ago it decided to just die on me (starts up but hangs in the boot up screen, won't print or do anything else), and after filling out a repair request the district tells me that they won't replace it (my particular school is funded by the DoD, and they are late with their check... again). Well, I have a Laserjet 1100 in my closet, but no ethernet jack on it, and no USB either for that matter, just parallel.
Well, my main computer there is a Dell D800 laptop, which has no parallel port. I have an old P3 Dell Optiplex with one that I could hook it up to, but it is a PITA to log into my account on that computer to print every time I want to, because it is slow as fuck.
Is there a way to hook up the printer to the Optiplex and be able to set it up as a network printer for the laptop so I could print to it just like I used to with the ethernet 2300? Thanks
I have a classroom and had a HP laserjet 2300. About a month ago it decided to just die on me (starts up but hangs in the boot up screen, won't print or do anything else), and after filling out a repair request the district tells me that they won't replace it (my particular school is funded by the DoD, and they are late with their check... again). Well, I have a Laserjet 1100 in my closet, but no ethernet jack on it, and no USB either for that matter, just parallel.
Well, my main computer there is a Dell D800 laptop, which has no parallel port. I have an old P3 Dell Optiplex with one that I could hook it up to, but it is a PITA to log into my account on that computer to print every time I want to, because it is slow as fuck.
Is there a way to hook up the printer to the Optiplex and be able to set it up as a network printer for the laptop so I could print to it just like I used to with the ethernet 2300? Thanks