Epson Stylus Color 600Q Technical Brief page 5

Flexibility—Connectivity
Epson ink jet printers support a variety of interfaces, network, and wireless communication devices, and all Epson
printers support Windows
1. Interfaces: All Epson printers have a USB interface; some are USB 1.1 but are compatible with USB 2.0
computer ports; some printers have the faster USB 2.0 interface. A few printers also feature a parallel interface,
and a few select models have built-in FireWire, a high speed interface that improves printing performance for
Macintosh users (but is also PC compatible).
For wireless printing, Epson offers a Bluetooth adapter, allowing you to print from a
Bluetooth-enabled device (such as a PDA, cell phone, or laptop) to a supported Epson
printer without cables. Bluetooth is a wireless cable replacement technology that
allows printing via a low-power, short-range radio frequency at a distance up to 33 feet.
Bluetooth does not allow printer sharing (like is allowed with a wireless print server),
but simply allows point-to-point wireless printing.
The Bluetooth Photo Print Adapter connects to the USB host port of supported
Epson photo printers.
Bluetooth is intended for short-range communications and is ideal for text documents and small photos.
2. Networking: Some Epson ink jet printers can be connected directly to an Ethernet network using a wired print
server. This device allows you to attach the printer directly to the network without using a dedicated computer
as a print server and to share the printer among all computers on the network.
Epson offers one print server for wired Ethernet networks:
EpsonNet™ 10/100Base-TX External Ethernet Print Server: This device works
with select Epson printer models that have a parallel port, and supports
Ethernet and Fast Ethernet networks. Because it connects to the parallel port, a
local computer can be connected to the printer's USB port while the printer is
also connected to a LAN.
3. Built-in Macintosh Printer Sharing with USB: Many of Epson's ink jet printers can be shared over a
Macintosh Ethernet network, without using a printer network interface. Here's how to use this feature:
Connect the printer to a Macintosh

computer on the network
Select the printer in the Chooser

and enable printer sharing
Install the printer driver on any or

all computers on the network
Select Shared Epson Printer from

the Chooser
Printer sharing is not currently
supported by OSX 10.1.
Ink Jet Printer Technical Brief
® and Macintosh ® , although not all print features are currently supported with OS X.
Epson printer locally attached
to one Macintosh computer via
a USB connection
Ethernet network
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