Good Bonjour print server

Can anyone recommend a good print server that has Bonjour? Ideally I'd like both USB 2.0 and parallel for my Canon Pixma 5000 and my older Oki 810e led printer. I realize that I can share the USB printer with Airport Extreme base, but I'm not going to switch to that from my Cisco AP with 100mw of power. Wireless or wired is fine. Thanks for any info!

Hi,
If the printer is added to AD, it's shown as a child object to the printer server it self (computer account)
So, open 'Active Directory Users and Computers' > View > Select 'Users, Contacts, Groups and Computers as containers'.
Then browse to the computer account of the print server, and there the printer should be 'listed'
Best Regards,
Jesper Vindum, Denmark
Systems Administrator
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Hi Mike,
Bonjour is a service discovery system. It doesn't
print. For
that you use ipp or lpr, etc. The reason why
Appletalk works
is that it has its own discovery system. It's older
and
apparently more reliable. Bonjour uses muticast ip
but
unless muticast requests are forwarded can't get
outside
a local subnet.
Once on your net was a machine - probably a samba
server -
named "maul". Must have been, it's in a mib
somewhere. Oh
wait - maybe it's cached in the dlink from its old
days on
the dark side!
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Windows
machine (I don't think that's an octal 321). CUPS
thinks
that's where the printer is. Normally cups discovers
the
printers via bonjour, and bonjour must be coming
back
with the wrong info!
But bonjour isn't that smart, something must be
tricking it.
There's a wonderful free utility called "Bonjour
Browser"
which will show you which services are being
announced.
Give it a try:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2162
2
Let me know what it shows under ipp.
-Phil
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775791(v=ws.10).aspx
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D [16/Jun/2010:19:09:34 +0900] [Job 40] printer-state=3(idle)
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