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Review on ⚙️ Lantronix xPrintServer Office Edition (XPS1002FC-02-S) Pro by Mike Quade

Revainrating 3 out of 5

This is an EOL product. No future driver updates will be provided directly from Technical Support.

Buy xPrintServer Office only if your printer is on the supported printer list. It seems to work for one of the ones I've tried on this list, but given that updating drivers is possible from both the admin interface and the USB port, I figured that gave some flexibility and/or future updates for support printers. This is especially important because it uses Linux CUPS in secret. I contacted their tech support and they clearly said they will not have any other printers in the future, nor will they help me with instructions on how to pack and download the driver. If you don't see your printer listed, it will never be there. Basically it seems to be an EOL product. If you're tech savvy, you can run CUPS and the AirPrint driver from the Raspberry Pi bundle for 1/3 the price. Unfortunately, the device looks nice and I wanted to be lazy messing around with CUPS, network setup, and driver configuration, but this device offers little in the way of flexibility and value, and with no future updates, you'd better make sure it's doing exactly what you need it to do OOTB or your money is wasted. Their customization interface is also amateur in terms of code and design quality.

Pros
  • Cool
Cons
  • Almost everything is fine