Printing using bluetooth

"Edward S" <i.am@interlog.com> wrote in message
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> "porcupine" <david@atcork.com> wrote in message
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> > I have a PC with a bluetooth dongle and I have a printer with a USB
> > connection
> >
> > I want to connect the two using bluetooth.
> >
> > Can I buy another Bluetooth dongle and stick it into the back of the
> > printer or do I need a dedicated bluetooth printer cable?
>
> No, can't do.
>

Good question, actually : why the heck not? I know it has to fit into the
correct device type, etc, but if there was a generic 'replace your cable
with this simple adapter at each end', and it came in the standard cheapo
display packaging hanging on the racks at your local Dixons for, oh, £15,
people would lap them up! Given they are finally producing some BT sets at the
promised $5/unit, it can't be that hard?

I'm personally still waiting for the Far Eastern factories to start churning
out unbranded 3.5mm stereo jack to Bluetooth Audio Gateway adapters, for
around £15-20, that I can plug into the headphone socket on the treadmill at
my local gym. Or my stereo. Or my DECT phone (with headset socket). Or my
TV. etc. etc. ad nauseum. They must have ironed out the bugs and got close
to that simple mass-production stage by now?*


Damian

* Although having tried listening to MP3s on my HBH-60, I guess not.

Damian Skeeles wrote:
> "Edward S" <i.am@interlog.com> wrote in message
> news:Jl_Ja.17986$IZ1.4624@news.primus.ca...
>> "porcupine" <david@atcork.com> wrote in message
>> news:f6e8ba37.0306240742.6ac24c04@posting.google.c om...
>> > I have a PC with a bluetooth dongle and I have a printer with a USB
>> > connection
>> >
>> > I want to connect the two using bluetooth.
>> >
>> > Can I buy another Bluetooth dongle and stick it into the back of the
>> > printer or do I need a dedicated bluetooth printer cable?
>>
>> No, can't do.
>>
>
> Good question, actually : why the heck not? I know it has to fit into the
> correct device type, etc, but if there was a generic 'replace your cable
> with this simple adapter at each end', and it came in the standard cheapo
> display packaging hanging on the racks at your local Dixons for, oh, £15,
> people would lap them up! Given they are finally producing some BT sets at the
> promised $5/unit, it can't be that hard?

Have a look at <http://www.blu2i.com/products/info.asp?id=3> - probably
not el-cheapo, but at least someone is starting to produce such adapters.

Regards...
Michael