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Erfon takes a look at the xPrintServer, a handy device that lets you use almost any printer wirelessly with your iPhone or iPad.
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aan Elijah here Gadget Hunter macw World
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2013 here with CAC and my friend Dave uh
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we're at the lantronix booth and we're
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going to be talking about the xprint
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server a Nifty little device that I
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discovered I think that you guys might
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actually find this really useful for
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printing uh you know products or pages
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from your iPhone and your computer uh
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tell us a little bit about the lantronix
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Dave so lantronix showed the product
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last year at Mac it was a work Edition
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it was the first one we came out with
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and we kind of saw a problem and we
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fixed it we had a um a product that we
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could fix the non-printing from iPhones
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and iPads and uh air print is great for
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consumers if you want to buy a new
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printer but if you have a business uh
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and you want to have a laser or you have
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a laser jet printer or any Legacy
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printer that you love xprint server is
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really the way to go you don't want to
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go with an air print printer so um what
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we did was we launched that uh Network
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Edition last year and it was so popular
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that a lot of the consumers were buying
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the product which was not our plan but
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uh they were very interested in having a
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USB port added to it because a lot of
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consumers still had older USB
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printers including myself has a a laser
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jet HP Laser Jet with USB so we launched
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that home edition last year in June and
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it was wildly successful still selling
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very well and a little bit later on in
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the year in October we were also had
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been getting a lot of requests from
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business is for more functionality more
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uh security around the printer security
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things like that more um being able to
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track print jobs and things like that
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and we launched the office Edition in
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October time frame I believe let me uh
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let me summarize just so I understand so
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this is a little device that you plug
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into your network right so you plug it
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into your network plug it into the power
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and then you can plug a printer into it
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and it makes that wireless printer or
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wired printer available to any Apple
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device on that Network correct correct
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so what you do is yeah you plug it into
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the network and it goes out and it finds
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all the printers any network printers
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that are already there if you have a USB
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printer also that is not obviously a
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network printer you just plug that
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directly into the into the uh xprint
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server into the USB port and that is now
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a network printer and you can print from
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any iOS device to virtually any printer
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tell us the main differences between the
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personal model that you guys have and
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then the Enterprise model that you guys
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just released sure so big difference is
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the Home Edition is a $99 one it can
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print uh it can uh print for up to two
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Network printers it can also print
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unlimited you can put a USB hub and you
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could daisy chain 20 USB printers in
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there if you wanted to and then that's
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your that's your limit I mean it can
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still do all the other functionality the
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office Edition is unlimited network
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printers for obviously a bigger office
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scenario it also has USB you can do USB
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as well but in a bigger office you're
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just going to have Network printers
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primarily and then it has again all the
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features around uh security and things
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like that printer security tracking of
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print jobs a lot of legal or law law
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firms are looking for ways to be able to
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track their print jobs back and put a
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cost on it and charge it to the client
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and things like that so that is a
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great option for any type of business
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like that gotcha so the xprint xprint
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server excuse me makes uh any printer in
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your home available to your iPhone to
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your Mac print wirelessly these are
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available now correct all and the consum
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uh Edition is how much consumer Edition
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is $99 and the office Edition is $1.99
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and where would people buy these they
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can buy them just about anywhere online
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um if they're here at macor we'll be
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selling them at macor right here in our
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booths Shameless plug I love it all
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right thanks a lot Dave air Elijah
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Gadget Hunter I'll see you
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soon
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