Why Doesnt my printer have an ethernet port on it? -

At my school, they have HPlaserjet 2300 printers, and thats the same one I have at home. And EVERY printer at my school has a blue ethernet cable hooked up to it, so why doesnt mine. I have the SAME EXACT printer they do.

I checked out the 2300 models they had, none came with a network interface, but they all seemed to have a parallel port. There is such a thing as a print server that plugs into the parallel port on the printer on one side and then into the network on the other (see quot;sourcequot; below for some examples). I didn t see any real quick, but they do make some that look like part of the printer when connected.

check the model often the ethernet jack ( network printers) have a quot;nquot; network designation after their model whereas the others do not you can set up the printer on computer number one as a quot;networkquot; printer If attached to a router an left on the computer will be a print server and you will have a networked printer You may want to return your computer to the store , tell thee you made a mistake and wish to upgrade if you are having trouble networking the printers a very useful program is network magic www.networkmagic.com

theirs is most likley a special school edition designed to be hooked up in a net work for shared printing via a lan connection