The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network

I was in the market for a printer that was cheap to buy and cheap to run. I did not print in color, so I concluded that a dot matrix laser printer would be a good choice. I looked up a couple of units and decided on Brother DCP-1510 as it was on sale for ~$100 with replacement toners running for $8 apiece. Not a bad deal. It had one caveat - no ethernet port, no WiFi support, and no Internet Printing Protocol....

April 3, 2022 · 6 min