two-way printer communications via Airport Express
Howdy...
I've had my AE for a while now. Its been awesome as a bridge between my WinXP Dell and my Bose lifestyle system and as a wireless hub for internet access. Only today, however, did I get a printer, a HP 5650. I have configured it as instructed in the AE manual and can print documents to it. However, there is no two-way communication between the printer and the computer over the wireless. Can anyone comment on whether or not this is possible? HP includes several nice utilities such as ink level monitoring and others that I would very much like to use. Unfortunately these all require two way communication with the printer. Any help would be appreciated.
I've had my AE for a while now. Its been awesome as a bridge between my WinXP Dell and my Bose lifestyle system and as a wireless hub for internet access. Only today, however, did I get a printer, a HP 5650. I have configured it as instructed in the AE manual and can print documents to it. However, there is no two-way communication between the printer and the computer over the wireless. Can anyone comment on whether or not this is possible? HP includes several nice utilities such as ink level monitoring and others that I would very much like to use. Unfortunately these all require two way communication with the printer. Any help would be appreciated.
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Kinda sucks, I agree. Perhaps a firmware update down the road will allow this (I have no idea if that is even possible, but I can dream).
I personally am hoping that Apple provides an interface for scanners. Something suing the same system as you use to share scanners from one MacOS X computer to another (small list at this point... through image capture), but I would expect this only on second generation base stations, not as a firmware upgrade to older models.