Forums Forums Enthusiast Forums A - Z Gadgets & Tech can you get a thing that makes printers bluetooth?

u know like the dongle things for phones? canu get them say to put on the laptop so as not to have the wires about all the time...tyia Gail x

Err possibly but would be very expensive.

Why Bluetooth you can wifi to a printer plugged into a pc
All you have to do is share it.

You can now get wifi printers now
And there pretty good on price too.

Yeah, well some modern printers even have Bluetooth built into them.

But it is better to use a Wifi print server imho, although it does come at a cost as with everything.

When bluetooth was originally conceieved, the idea was that by 2005, every printer and other peripheral would be using it, we would be in a truely wireless world... but thanks to the unexpected high cost of bluetooth chips (licensing) as well as the lacklustre below par performance of the technology, it never really hit on.

Shame really.

I remember seeing a tommorows world style programme about bluetooth and that you would be able to bluetooth many appliances in your home to tell them to perform a task, i.e the bath to run at 30oC to 75% full, or the kettle to boil, or the lights to dim etc.

It could have been great.

soooo rite... my laptops wifi(i think) god am so dumb its all 2 hard to understand i can do something to the pc in the other room to be able to print then?

Something like this would be what you are looking for:

You're printer plugs into it, and it acts almost like another PC on the network, albeit just a printing station.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/120353

OOO thanks matty x

No problemo, just had a quick scout on eBay and found a Linksys device, pretty much the same, but a fair bit cheaper even after p+p:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Linksys-WPS54...281QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Nicer design imho too lol.

lol u lazy begger

you know me so well! lol

oo yay there ace!