Going wireless is definitely one of the pipe dreams of mankind, otherwise Wi-Fi routers would not have been so popular these days. Having said that, wires tend to be able to have a life of their own and clump together whenever you are not looking, and with the Lantronix xPrintServer which is said to be able to deliver wireless iOS printing, it lets you hook up any printer to your home network with a teeny weenie box, transforming it into a wireless printer that will play nice with your iOS-powered device – case in point, the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
The first xPrintServer was released late last year, enabling you to transform any network-connected printer into an iOS printer through the simple act of plugging an Ethernet cable into the tiny box, for it to search for networked printers. With the xPrintServer Home Edition being part of its lineup, all you need to do is to throw in a USB port and it ought to work with just about all printers out there in the market, almost anyways.
With this $99 print server, you are now able to send print jobs over from your iPad to virtually any printer, making those that support Apple’s AirPrint service no longer an exclusive domain.
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