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I am looking to buy the following laser printer:<br />
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<a href="http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3FN6" rel="ugc">http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3FN6</a><br />
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Ideally i want to have a network version but the model with an inbuilt NIC is much more expensive:<br />
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<a href="http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3FN8" rel="ugc">http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3FN8</a><br />
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My supplier also stocks a wide variety of low priced USB print servers. For exmaple:<br />
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<a href="http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3P35" rel="ugc">http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3P35</a><br />
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I am tempted to just buy the basic printer and use a print server. Can anybody advise whether using an external print server is going to give me any decrease in performance/reliability? If not, can anybody recommend any particular models?
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I am looking to buy the following laser printer:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3FN6

Ideally i want to have a network version but the model with an inbuilt NIC is much more expensive:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3FN8

My supplier also stocks a wide variety of low priced USB print servers. For exmaple:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=3P35

I am tempted to just buy the basic printer and use a print server. Can anybody advise whether using an external print server is going to give me any decrease in performance/reliability? If not, can anybody recommend any particular models?

Benefit of using internal printer NIC over a print server

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