Mobile printing on HP printers with Bluetoothİ from Palm OS 5.0
This document aims to provide some basics of using the Bluetooth technoloy for mobile printing, from a Palm handheld. Mobile printing techniques are introduced first, followed by a brief coverage of Bluetooth technology. Subsequently, features of the Bluetooth stack as it applies to PalmOs 5 are taken up. The discussion ends with sample code snippets that demonstrate communication with a Bluetooth enabled printer, such as certain HP Deskjets.
Mobile Printing is the term used for printing from mobile devices such as a Palm handheld, a laptop, a PocketPC or similar device, without cables and without complex printer drivers, and directed towards a printer in the vicinity. Mobile printing is essentially wireless printing.
Printer drivers are printer-specific code, and not very suitable for smaller devices. They are useful in mobile devices like notebooks that run operating systems such as Windows and Linux. However, it is possible to address a whole family of printers (such as the DeskJet series from HP) using a monolithic driver built from toolkits such as the HP APDK....
