TROY XCD, Inc. is pleased to announce its NetSend Internet print servers, a family of products that allows printers from Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) to receive information and print jobs directly from peripheral devices like scanners, handheld devices, and digital cameras via local area networks (LANs) and the Internet. The NetSend product line was introduced and demonstrated at HP`s JetSend Solutions Pavilion at COMDEX Fall `99 in Las Vegas.
NetSend Internet print servers use HP`s new JetSend technology to allow them to communicate with other peripheral devices without the need for an intermediate computer system or device drivers. HP developed JetSend as an open device-to-device communications protocol designed to simplify interaction between information appliances. Since its introduction in 1997, JetSend has generated a great deal of interest from computer and information appliance manufacturers as well as software vendors. There are currently more than 5 million JetSend-enabled devices in the marketplace.
In a typical application, a user could scan a document on a JetSend-enabled scanner and have that document printed out directly on a printer equipped with a NetSend Internet print server.
This is far simpler than the current method, where the user would need to start up his PC, open an application program, scan the document, select the appropriate printer driver, and then print out the document on the printer. The NetSend Internet print server can be on the same LAN as the scanner, or if given the appropriate access privileges, it can receive jobs from the scanner over the Internet.
HP is now including JetSend capabilities with many of its new printers, scanners, and other devices. In addition, HP partners have JetSend-enabled a variety of different kinds of products, including cellular phones, handheld computers, and digital whiteboards. Most of the HP LaserJet printers developed after 1998 are JetSend-enabled. Printers developed prior to that time do not offer this capability, resulting in HP requesting that TROY XCD develop a product for these legacy printers. The XJet 100 NetSend works with any HP printer that supports the PCL page description language and the modular I/O (MIO) peripheral slot. These printers include the HP LaserJet 5Si, 5, 4, 4V, the DeskJet 1200 and 1600, the Colour LaserJet 5 and 5M, and many other HP printers manufactured between 1992 and 1998. The Pony 100 NetSend provides similar capabilities for PCL printers that do not have an MIO slot, such as the HP LaserJet 6P and PCL-compatible HP DeskJet printers, as well as many non-HP printers.
"JetSend promises to simplify the way we interact with devices, allowing the intelligent exchange and printing of meaningful information without end user intervention. We are pleased to be working with TROY XCD, Inc. to JetSend-enable HP`s legacy printers," commented Atul Bhatnagar, general manager of HP`s Information Appliance Operation.
"This relationship lets our users take advantage of JetSend capabilities on all of the printers in their network," Keith Sugawara, TROY XCD`s president, said, "There are over nine million HP printers with MIO slots installed throughout the world, according to Lyra Research, Inc. TROY XCD is the only company that provides a solution for enabling JetSend connectivity on these printers."
Jon Asahina, TROY XCD`s vice-president of marketing, added, "JetSend is the third Internet protocol that is supported by TROY XCD products. With the introduction of our proprietary PrintraNet protocol in 1996, our print servers were the first in the industry to allow printing jobs across the Internet. We also support the T.37 Internet fax protocol in our FaxtraNet series of Internet fax interfaces, and we are presently adding support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). Now a printer equipped with a TROY XCD NetSend Internet print server could receive jobs from a T.37 compatible fax machine, a JetSend-enabled scanner, or a PC running IPP."
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