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CSL-Computer LAN print server joining one USB printer to a wired network review
A wired print server with a web page for setup, whose protocol list includes a video acronym and whose compatibility is described in words rather than published as a list.
The bottom line A capable little wired unit with its power supply and lead in the box and a browser page for setup. The absence of any published compatibility list, and the acronym in the protocol line, are the two things to settle with the seller.
On the listing
A LAN print server with Fast Ethernet, USB 2.0 high speed and LPR printing, DHCP capability and TCP/IP named in the title, supplied with a power supply and an Ethernet lead; sharing a USB printer in a small office or at home by putting the RJ45 lead from the router into one side and the USB lead from the printer into the other; web-based management for setting up and monitoring the unit from a browser; a note that the unit suits normal printers, that the scanning functions of multifunction machines are not supported, that it works in the direction of the printer only and that nothing comes back from it, neither messages nor ink levels nor availability; and a properties line giving the server side as RJ45 and the printer side as USB 2.0 compatible with USB 1.1, with TCP/IP, LPR, Bonjour Search, HDCP, Auto-MDIX and USB 2.0 Hi-Speed named, Windows 7 through 11 supported, and a note that external hard drives can also be attached.
Four letters in the protocol list
HDCP, in a list of printing protocols. HDCP is the copy protection scheme of a video link and has nothing to do with printing. Three letters away sits DHCP, which is how a unit like this gets its address, and the title of the same listing prints exactly that. Both spellings are recorded here as published. Nothing is corrected, because correcting a specification on behalf of a seller is how an invented fact enters a page.
What the printer never sends back
The fourth bullet is unusually honest. Print jobs travel to the printer. Nothing travels the other way: no ink level, no paper warning, no reachable indicator. Anyone who has watched a driver report a printer as offline while it prints will recognise the arrangement, and knowing about it beforehand is what makes it tolerable.
Normal printers, and no list
The only statement of compatibility on this page is the word normal, plus an exclusion for the scanning half of multifunction machines. This hub judges a print server on its published list of printers, and there is no list here. What there is instead is a description, and a description leaves the individual case open.
Before ordering
Find the make and model of the printer, then ask the seller directly whether it is supported. That question has no shortcut on this page.
Availability
Priced at roughly 50 € on the German Amazon store the day this page was checked.
In the British Amazon catalogue with no live offer against it: the reference exists, nobody is filling it.
The American, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores returned nothing at all, so the buy button there opens a search in that country rather than a page that would not load.
Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
Where it holds up, and where it stops
Strengths
Says outright that nothing comes back from the printer, so a buyer expecting ink levels or a status page knows before ordering rather than after installing
The power supply and the Ethernet lead are both in the box, which is two fewer things to find on a Sunday
A web page for setup and monitoring, so the unit is configured from a browser rather than from software that has to be installed on every machine
Compromises
No compatibility list of any kind, on the one family where the list is the specification
The protocol list prints HDCP, a video acronym, where the title prints DHCP, and the page never reconciles the two
The network socket is named Fast Ethernet and never rated, and no macOS or Linux support is named at all
Specifications
Printer connection type
USB 2.0, compatible with USB 1.1 — stated in the title and in the fifth bullet, which describes the printer or data side of the unit. The first bullet adds that the USB lead from the printer goes into one side while the RJ45 lead from the router goes into the other
Network port type
RJ45 copper — stated in the title and in the fifth bullet as the server side of the connection
Network port speed
Fast Ethernet — named in the title and never rated. No figure in Mbit/s and no BASE-TX designation appears in the title or in any of the five bullets
Wireless support
Not published on the listing — no wireless, no band and no standard appears anywhere; the route to the network is described only as an RJ45 lead from the router
Protocols published
TCP/IP, LPR, Bonjour Search, HDCP, Auto-MDIX and USB 2.0 Hi-Speed — as printed in the fifth bullet. HDCP is the acronym of a video content protection scheme, and the title of the same listing prints DHCP capability instead. Both are recorded here exactly as published, and nothing is corrected on behalf of the seller
Number of printers served
Not published on the listing as a count — the page describes putting a printer, in the singular, onto the network, and no figure appears in any bullet
Scanner support
No — stated in the fourth bullet, which says the scanning functions of multifunction machines are not supported, that the unit works towards the printer only, and that nothing travels back from the printer, neither ink levels nor availability
Stated operating system support
Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 — stated in the fifth bullet. No version of macOS, Linux or any other system is named
Published printer compatibility list
Not published on the listing — the fourth bullet says the unit suits normal printers and excludes the scanning side of multifunction machines, and names no model, no range and no maker. A description of a kind of printer is not a list of printers
Amazon reference
B08V6J3W4F (same reference on 2 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
4062861069103
The questions that come up before an order
Why does nothing come back from the printer?
Because this kind of unit sends print jobs one way and does not carry the return channel a driver uses to report status. The fourth bullet states it directly: no messages, no ink levels, no availability. Printing works; the little window on the computer that usually shows what the printer is doing does not.
Is a description of normal printers the same as a compatibility list?
No, and the difference is the whole reason this family is judged on the list. A list names models, so a buyer can find their own printer on it or fail to. A description names a kind, which leaves every individual case unresolved. This page describes a kind and excludes one function of another kind.
USB to the printer · Ethernet to the network, unrated · one printer · software in five languages · limited to LabelWriter 450-series machines · no protocols published
A print server sold for one range of label printers, which makes it the only unit here whose compatibility is bounded in writing rather than described.
Best for: An office already running a LabelWriter of the 450 series on one desk, where everyone else needs to print to it without moving the printer.
USB to the printer · a network cable interface, undescribed · wireless named without a standard · 95 per cent of brands claimed · a 256 GB figure with nothing attached · half the bullets empty
A wireless print server whose compatibility is given as a percentage, whose largest figure is measured in gigabytes, and half of whose bullet slots contain nothing at all.
Best for: A buyer who needs a printer somewhere no cable reaches and is prepared to establish everything about compatibility with the seller before ordering.
one USB 2.0 printer · 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX auto-sensing · LPR and Bonjour named · Mac and Windows, no versions · network lead supplied · no model list
A one-printer server that names the two Ethernet designations behind its 10/100 and the two printing protocols it speaks, and publishes no list of printers.
Best for: A home or small office with one USB printer and a mixture of Mac and Windows machines, where Bonjour is what those machines already use to find things.
