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What is a good Bluetooth printer?
Posted on 2/26/17 at 5:11 pm
Posted on 2/26/17 at 5:11 pm
I want to use a printer that can be paired up with an iPhone or an android tablet that will print through Bluetooth rather than wifi. Anyone have any experience with printing over Bluetooth?
Posted on 2/26/17 at 10:05 pm to papasmurf1269
Hp printers are best
Posted on 2/27/17 at 12:37 am to Lucas Chamberlain
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Hp printers are best
I've owned a couple of HP printers and they were a pile of cow dung.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:39 am to Arkapigdiesel
I bought a Brother Laser Printer as it featured wifi printing capability to iOS devices.
The biggest issue I've found with the Printer I own, and iOS device-based printing wirelessly in general-is that iOS' wireless printing technology standard does not interpret different paper sizes in a print file.
What I mean by that is if I have a large .pdf file of several MB that has both paper and legal sized documents interspersed, I must designate at the outset of the print job which size paper I will need to print the entire file in. iOS won't send auto-detect-type info with the print job, so it just prints everyone out at the same paper-size.
For me this is a really big buzzkill. I've found a manual work-around and long-term, I'm going to have to break down to buy a laptop that's capable of interpreting via auto-detect. But that's the only issue I've run into.
I'd imagine that any Bluetooth printer you find is going to have similar issues.
Good luck.
The biggest issue I've found with the Printer I own, and iOS device-based printing wirelessly in general-is that iOS' wireless printing technology standard does not interpret different paper sizes in a print file.
What I mean by that is if I have a large .pdf file of several MB that has both paper and legal sized documents interspersed, I must designate at the outset of the print job which size paper I will need to print the entire file in. iOS won't send auto-detect-type info with the print job, so it just prints everyone out at the same paper-size.
For me this is a really big buzzkill. I've found a manual work-around and long-term, I'm going to have to break down to buy a laptop that's capable of interpreting via auto-detect. But that's the only issue I've run into.
I'd imagine that any Bluetooth printer you find is going to have similar issues.
Good luck.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:53 am to papasmurf1269
I haven't used a Bluetooth printer in a long time, but it was painfully slow. They have had a couple of revisions since then but still BT will probably still be slower than WiFi (which is itself kinda slow)
Posted on 2/27/17 at 8:19 am to SaltyMcKracker
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SaltyMcKracker
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I haven't used a Bluetooth printer in a long time, but it was painfully slow. They have had a couple of revisions since then but still BT will probably still be slower than WiFi (which is itself kinda slow)
Have not experienced latency issues utilizing WiFi Printing in my use-case. Not saying it doesn't exist. But I'm using iOS devices (iPhone 6 and iPad Mini 2) being sent to Brother Laser Jets. But like I said...YMMV.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 8:48 am to SaltyMcKracker
quote:I am looking to use this printer inside my work truck paired up with my iPhone or a tablet.
I haven't used a Bluetooth printer in a long time, but it was painfully slow. They have had a couple of revisions since then but still BT will probably still be slower than WiFi (which is itself kinda slow)
Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:20 am to papasmurf1269
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papasmurf1269
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I am looking to use this printer inside my work truck paired up with my iPhone or a tablet.
Why not just use WiFi with temporary Tethering of the Printer to the Hotspot your iPhone or Tablet generates using their data signal?
Posted on 2/27/17 at 11:36 am to GFunk
Because I have AT&T and on my unlimited plan they haven't started tethering yet. You bring up a good point, I may try that when Att allows me to teather.
This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 11:40 am
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