LaserShare is an intelligent printer controller that allows up to four or eight computers to send data to a single HP LaserJet Series II, IID, III, IIID, Brother HL8e* and HL8v*, or Wang LDP8 laser printer.
LaserShare MIO installs into the HP LaserJet Series IIISi, Series 4, and Series 4SI and will support serial speeds up to 460K bps. LaserShare connects directly into the optional I/O or MIO slot of the laser printer. Power is taken directly from the laser printer so there is no need for a power cord. LaserShare and LaserShare MIO can accept data from all ports simultaneously. Print jobs are printed on a first-in first-out basis. All LaserShare models come standard with a buffer that can range from 256K to 4MB. The buffer on LaserShare MIO models may range from 1MB to 4MB. LaserShare 4C and LaserShare 4C MIO come with four EIA-232C serial ports. LaserShare 8C and LaserShare 8C MIO come with eight serial ports, LaserShare 4E comes with two parallel and two serial ports, and LaserShare 4A and LaserShare 4A MIO come with four parallel ports.
*The LaserShare device for the Brother HL8e and HL8v is referred to as LaserShare 4CB. This device is available with four (4) serial computer ports and a fixed buffer size of 256KB.
The BayTech PS-4A, PS-4C, and PS-4Amodels are user configurable, high speed, network print servers that support up to four printers. The PS-4Ahas four parallel ports, the PS-4Cwill has four high speed serial ports, and the PS-4Ehas two parallel and two high speed serial ports. The BayTech LaserShare Network PS-MIOis a network print server card which installs into the MIO slot of the HP LaserJet Series IIISi, Series 4, and Series 4SI laser printers. Each BayTech print server is compatible with Novell NetWare 3.XX using normal NetWare commands and utilities (i.e., PCONSOLE, CAPTURE, and NPRINT). You may use an Ethernet 10BASE2 (thin coax) or 10BASE-T (twisted pair) network interface. The BayTech print server services up to 32 print queues distributed on as many as 32 file servers.