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Bluetooth printing, on a Mac?
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Aug 3, 2003, 05:26 AM
 
I was just musing about how much better it would be to be able to site my printer from under my desk where it is dusty and inaccesible to somewhere else in the room. So I googled and found this:

http://www.fieldsoftware.com/printing_bluetooth.htm

There are a number of Bluetooth printer adapters on this page, all with Parallel ports.

So, dare I ask? Anything out there for us Mac users?
     
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Aug 3, 2003, 01:31 PM
 
Um, incase I'm not being understood, I mean a bluetooth device that plugs into the USB socket of a printer. On your Bluetooth enabled Windows XP PC, I would imagine it would appear as an LPT port to which you can print using your printer driver.

I'm not sure how this would work on the Mac.
     
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Aug 3, 2003, 03:27 PM
 
I have read some reviews on bluetooth printing and they all say it is terrible. If you are printing anything other then text it will choke several times.

Just get a long USB cable.

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