elysha
Joined: 20 Nov 2003
Posts: 58
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 Posted: 05/12/07 - 23:34 Post subject: |
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| Welcome and you didn’t have to wait much in this line to get the answer. First answer – YES it is possible to print by Bluetooth connection and yes it will make waiting lines gone. Bluetooth is device that allows computers, mobile phones or other devices to communicate with each other using the radio waves in about 10 meters distance tops. Using the Bluetooth adapter (Belkin Wireless USB Printer Adapter, Bluetooth PC Card / CF Card Blue CF-300+PCMCIA Adapter, DLink Bluetooth USB Printer Adapter, Troy XCD WindConnect II Parallel Bluetooth Wireless Print Adapter, UMAX BT210 Bluetooth USB Printer Adapter, IOGear Bluetooth Printer Adapter Kit for USB Printers, Wireless Printer Adapter, etc) instead printer’s parallel cable you are able to print wirelessly from any device form previously mentioned. You need Bluetooth PC card (IBM Bluetooth PC card, Motorola Bluetooth PC, ard3Com/HP Wireless Bluetooth PC card, Toshiba Bluetooth PC card with Bluetooth Software Suite, Toshiba Bluetooth PC card with Bluetooth Service Center…), Bluetooth adapter (3Com Wireless Bluetooth USB Adapter, Microsoft Windows XP SP2 built-in Bluetooth feature, BlueFritz! USB, Compaq Bluetooth Multiport Module, Acer Bluetooth Mini USB Adapter, IBM Bluetooth UltraPort Module, Other Bluetooth USB devices using 'My Bluetooth Places', Bluetooth USB devices using Mac OS X and PostScript printers), PDA’s ( Personal Digital Assistants) like Palms running Palm OS 4.x or OS 5.x , iPAQs running Pocket PC 2003, PDAs running Pocket PC 2002 or 2000, etc or mobile phone that supports Bluetooth connection. Of course you need PC and printer that is compatible with Bluetooth adapter, and having the usb port. Synchronizing the Bluetooth and the printer unfortunately is not standard action, meaning each device contains Bluetooth stack/driver that determines the steps of those settings. Very common is Microsoft and WIDCOMM/Broadcom stack. But in general major paths of any setting are to set up Bluetooth as a connection and turn it on so it becomes discoverable to other devices. Then set the “New partnership” between Bluetooth and the printer, set the “New outgoing port” which is actually the printer, and at the end use printer software support to set the printer and paper settings and begin printing with start button. Usually you are getting manuals how to set up everything or you can look on the Internet for the connection combination that you are making for wireless printing. Good luck and print safely without making the fuss in “waiting for printing” lines anymore! |
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