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Features
- Connect your USB and parallel printers to your existing wireless 802.11b or 802.11g network
- The Hawking HWPS12UG combined with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) lets you easily connect to any printer and print documents by specifying the print server's IP address
- Through its enhanced functionality, the HWPS12UG can support up to three printers at one time
- You can send a print job to a printer in another country just as easily as sending a print job to your home or office printer
- Simply print an original document through the HWPS12UG's IPP capabilities and send it from one office to another.
Product Description
The Hawking, HWPS12UG, 2 USB + 1 Parallel port 10/100 Wireless Print Server, is a powerful and convenient tool to connect your USB and parallel printers to your existing wireless 802.11b or 802.11g network. Through its enhanced functionality, the HWPS12UG can support up to three printers at one time (2 USB + 1 Parallel). The Hawking HWPS12UG combined with the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) lets you easily connect to any printer and print documents by specifying the print server's IP address. With IPP technology, printing over a WAN or the Internet becomes much easier. You can send a print job to a printer in another country just as easily as sending a print job to your home or office printer. IPP eliminates the need for fax communications between offices. Simply print an original document through the HWPS12UG's IPP capabilities and send it from one office to another. The print quality from IPP printing is equal to that of a document printed from your local office. With the HWPS12UG, your printers become a fully functional networked print station.SimilarProduct
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Customer reviews
Good product, excellent customer service 
by .. Pavel (Denmark)
This print server supports WPA security protocol (the description on amazon.com is outdated). The installation CD that comes with the print server already contains the latest drivers, so it is not necessary to download or update anything. Also the documentation is up to date, only the box still mentions only WEP.
I bought this print server because it has both parallel and USB ports, and 802.11g wireless network with WPA security. I found only one more wireless print server on the market with these parameters (Motorola WPS870G) but read a review that their implementation of WPA does not work. Support from Motorola was not able or willing to confirm or reject this information (they three times suggested (via e-mail) to contact someone else instead of giving me an answer). Hawking support replied to (and answered) the same question within minutes.
Installation and setup of the print server is easy using wizards. I was able to setup the print server and two computers on my home network during couple of minutes, but had a problem on a computer which is remotely managed by the corporate domain and something on this computer prevented the Hawking network driver to communicate with the printer. Support from Hawking was able to help me via e-mail overnight; they sent me information which ports should be open in the firewall and how to configure a tcp/ip port manually without using the Hawking network driver, and it solved the problem on that computer. The fact that you do not need Hawking network driver in order to print could be in the documentation.
The wireless receiver is quite sensitive; the print server is able to detect wireless networks of my neighbors that none of my computers was able to detect.
Documentation could be improved. Documentation is useful for basic setup and if everything goes fine, but do not tell you very much what to do if something does not work as it should. The user's manual could assume that not all users are experts in network protocols, and give more information on when to use various system options such as SMB, LPR, IPP, Netware, Appletalk, SNMP and what these terms actually mean. Other example is that the documentation describes you how to configure a static and dynamic IP addresses, but does not tell you that it is a good idea to assign a static IP address to the print server.
The function of the WLAN LED is a bit confusing: under normal conditions the Power LED and LAN LED have constant light, which indicates the server is connected to power and LAN. The WLAN LED is under normal conditions flashing, which indicates that wireless is enabled, but it does not mean that the print server is connected to the wireless network.
Overall, it is a capable print server and their technical support is excellent.
Excellent product by .. M. L Mandell (NJ)
I had this product up and running in less time than it took to open the package. You do need a wired network and an extra ethernet cable (which does not come with the product) to program the device. The manual was brief but sufficient. If you set up your own wireless network, as I did, you'll be able to use this product.
Device is great, documentation needs improvement 
by .. Ken H. (Fort Collins, CO USA)
As with some of the other reviewers, I felt the documentation needed some improvement. I have encryption enabled on my network, so I had to use a hard wire to configure the device. Run the wizard to store the 128-bit encryption key (you need to make sure you select the HEX 26 digit mode in the drop down), select a name and print queue, and select either DHCP or a static IP address. I suggest a static IP address to make configuring a printer port easier (see below). It looks like the default for the device is 192.168.1.185, but I had to look in the router DHCP table to find that. Now the device is ready for connecting wirelessly.
One area missing from the documemtation is that the Print Queue Name used by your printer setup and the Hawking device need to be the same. When adding a new printer in Windows, you first select that you are adding a Local Printer (do not automatically detect). Then Create a new port. In the Type of port drop down you should see PrintServer Network Port (the Hawking software adds this port). Select this port and click Next. You will get a Port Name dialog box. Click Create and type in the PrintServer name and IP address. This would be the name you called your PrintServer while running the wizard. I suggested during setup to use a static IP address so you can just enter that number here. Click OK and your PrintServer should show up in the list. Highlight it and the Port and IP Address fields will fill in. Select the first Print Port (LPT1) and then enter the SAME QUEUE NAME that you used during configuration of the PrintServer with the wizard. I used PS1, PS2, and PS3 and entered the PS1 name in the spot next to LPT1. Click OK and then select the printer you are connecting, and finish out the Add Printer dialog.
One additional item you need to do is to go into Printers and Faxes, right click on the printer you just added and select Properties. Click on the Ports tab. Highlight the printer you just added and select Configure Port. In the Select Protocol dialog, I selected AUTO, and set the Queue Name to the same as done during the PrintServer wizard configuration and during the Add Printer/Add Port. In my case this was PS1. That was the last trick and all worked great after that. It takes me about 3 minutes to configure another wireless notebook to print through the Hawking device, and it works great. Hope these instructions help, and wish they had been in the manual to start.
works with assistance by .. Wireless Genious (Anchorage, AK)
Didn't work as described in instructions. After speaking to tech support for about 5 minutes was printing. Had to configure the port with the IP address of the printer. Now it works flawlessly. An adendum should be included in the instructions or on a website to describe how to configure the port for printing.
Response to previous reviewer by .. ()
This isn't really a review, but a response to the previous reviewer. While it doesn't make sense to you to need a wired LAN connection to configure a wireless device, it does to me. It's using the same approach that WAPs use. You have to configure the device before you can use it, and it's probably cheaper to implement a wired LAN (since it is, after all, a LAN device) than to incorporate either a USB or parallel interface.
Thanks for the information regarding the lack of decent documentation. I'm still considering this device, primarily because it supports 3 printers, but will be more cautious and (hopefully) prepared if I do get it.