Hello,
please add printer support for router os or create metarouter image with printer server support (maybe cups).
Thanks
Print server is awesome feature for mikrotik rb9/rb7****
best idea
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with the ability to upload firmware of a printer.
Good…
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Only interested if full multifunction support, maybe by defining some new standard. In that case, very much so.
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now is many important function that need to be optimized …
print server is completly useless
ROS should do what is intended for at first. Until it is error-free such useless things like printing or scanning do not have their place here.
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While I agree that the priority is fixing RouterOS 6 first, a multiplatform multivendor multifunction “printing” standard is a long term project that would involve many actors and does not start with coding, and would increase Mikrotik’s status if it leads the initiative.
we dont need that feature at all.
New printers have wi-fi and google cloud print. Just buy them. It’s the future. They are allready cheap.
No need in print serrver functionality in RouterOS
The choice of printers is very limited in some countries
RB7/RB9 are cheap routers (with awesome functionality) and compatibility with printing is good feature for small offices or home usage, printer with network +$20 / print-server is +$20 or more, I am not saying that this is a very important thing but useful.
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In a year or two you will not be able to buy a printer without ethernet or wireless integrated … why develop a functionality that will be obsolete by the time it is released and only handfull of users will use it until their old printers die. You can buy a print server for 10$ or less on ebay. Not worth the effort, not to mention flash/memory usage. IMHO Mikrotik makes routers for advanced users, and should more focus on routing than on file sharing, printer sharing and similar features …
JF.
Maybe a Remote USB approach is better suited. That means it will not become obsolete and satisfy a lot of people: printers, multifunctionals with working scanners and remote fax, cameras, IR receivers, remote sound cards, you could even have your mouse and keyboard in a rack in the basement 
Such product already exist, I’ve tried one (ST-Lab) and have mixed emotions about it … this approach also takes more programmers from other tasks to develop and maintain windows/mac/linux drivers. Why integrate it into a router if you can get a working unit for 10$ in a local store or ebay.
JF.
Hi, please add link for $10 print server.
Oh, I’m already check. No ten bucks print servers. $20+ minimum.
Yes, but it is an additional device, with a network connection taking up a port and its own power supply.
That function could be kind of “for free”.
And imagine e.g. a serial adapter for managing the console of another device on top of a tower. Or a USB device measuring some parameters in a remote setup.
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