So I went down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out a way to hook up my 2 printers (label + paper) up to my unraid server that is a floor below me.
Would getting a cheap router with USB ports and then hooking that router up with ethernet to my switch, make it possible to see those printers inside of a windows VM on unraid? Is there a better solution to hooking these printers up to my unraid box without putting them next to it? Or an rpi setup as a print server?
These printers are my last vestiges of using windows, because the shipping software I use only runs on windows. I want to get rid of the box running windows in a VM I have upstairs, it's a power hog and generally unnecessary, and replace it with an rpi for web viewing and video watching. Plus it has a better processor that I'd rather put into my unraid box
The printers are the only USB devices I'm trying to accomplish this with. Thanks!