Printers -- USB- Bluetooth

Most of the questions on this forum regarding using bluetooth in place of a USB cable for printers are unresolved.
As far as I can tell, this is not possible unless the printer driver supports a Bluetooth port, and not many Macintosh printer drivers do, if any.
I've seen Bluetooth transmitters that plug right into USB ports, but the advertisements seem to suggest that these don't work on Apple machines. Correct?
Are some printer manufacturers now including Bluetooth ports in their drivers, or retrofitting drivers for recent machines for Bluetooth?
(Personally, I have a new non-networkable Brother laser printer model MFC-7420. I need to put it on the other side of the room, but I think it's too far for a USB cable. In retrospect, I wish I'd gotten the networkable model. I could string an ethernet cable over there.)
Has anyone written a hack that will make it possible to make a non-bluetooth-enabled printer driver work with bluetooth, by making the bluetooth port emulate a USB port? Seems like that would be possible, but I'm no expert.
Is there another way to do what I want to do? Infrared, maybe?
Thanks in advance,
Tim

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