Bluetooth Printing from your Android / Droid device
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barry99705
Android Expert
I've printed a few photo's to my Epson Artisan 700. I have a generic bluetooth adapter in it's usb port. Works pretty good.
barry99705
Android Expert
No, I haven't tried that yet. I'd love printing over wifi though. Our work printers don't have bluetooth.
boogerdroid
Newbie
are there any apps yet out to print?
WOW.....
I guess i was wrong. There is a good amount of interest in printing from Android / Droid devices.
I can't say that I'll be able to meet all your printing requirements. There is a lot dependent on applications making their data accessible to third party applications.
As for WiFi, this is an option that can be looked at. Of course after the bluetooth version has been debugged and released.
Okay so I'll need to get on it. The holidays are right around the corner so i guess I'll be eating my holiday meals in front of my computer.
I'll let you all know once i have something that's usable.
Thanks to all for your feedback.
Happy holidays....
I guess i was wrong. There is a good amount of interest in printing from Android / Droid devices.
I can't say that I'll be able to meet all your printing requirements. There is a lot dependent on applications making their data accessible to third party applications.
As for WiFi, this is an option that can be looked at. Of course after the bluetooth version has been debugged and released.
Okay so I'll need to get on it. The holidays are right around the corner so i guess I'll be eating my holiday meals in front of my computer.
I'll let you all know once i have something that's usable.
Thanks to all for your feedback.
Happy holidays....
Redflea
Android Expert
Droid_Junky
Android Enthusiast
Bluetooth printing could be useful.
PrinterShare app uses wifi. But it could not find drivers for my printer. You can load the PrinterShare software onto your home computer and print from your Droid through your computer.
PrinterShare app uses wifi. But it could not find drivers for my printer. You can load the PrinterShare software onto your home computer and print from your Droid through your computer.
barry99705
Android Expert
Well I can only print photo's to the Artisan. I think it's a software thing on the printer, it's made to be able to print photo's from your phone, that's why they make bluetooth adapters for them. Was hoping though. 
I have a Kodak esp7 and printing either wifi or bt would be awesome. Off of a Droid, the transfer speeds really wouldent matter much. It would be nice to print coupons from the Droid coupon app though. Retailers freak out when you show them a coupon off of a cell phone. It's almost as bad as getting a price check on vagisil... Happy Holidays
boogerdroid
Newbie
would this app work for HP printers? Do you need to add a feature to your desktop/lap top to make this work?
Thanks!
Thanks!
We can always use more printing capabilities. BT and Wifi, definitely. What would really be nice is the ability to connect to IPP via any networking interface (I'm thinking CUPS under Linux). Your keyboard app coupled with the ability to print what one writes would virtually eliminate the need to carry a laptop. By all means, I would buy such an app. Now if a web browser would only support printing...
The plan is to make this print app/driver work with HP-PCL printers as well as ESC/POS printers. However I can't say to what extent HP-PCL will be supported. Simple Text & Graphics printing is easy but making documents printout in WYSIWYG will be the difficult part and depends on application running on device to make data available as well as API for rendering documents.
First thing first... get the simple Text document (i.e. Mail, Memo, etc.) & Graphics document printing. Currently I'm printing test Text & Image data already and is working nicely. Now making the interface to extract simple Text document & Graphics document for the various applications. This will take some time for the various apps.
and oh.... no need to install anything on the desktop or laptop. The only requirement is that your printer supports bluetooth. For network printers i can't say. Will see when we get there.
more later...
H470BT should work with this Andorid app. I'm currently (well just got a contract rfq) to do a custom app for Blackberry devices for this H470BT printer. Preliminary research indicate that this printer supports the basic PCL language that this BlueTxT-Android app i'm working on supports.
In fact most HP printers supports the basic PCL language for Text and Graphics printing.
more info coming soon.
and oh Happy New Year.... everyone...
