Sharing printer via Bluetooth

Hi,
Is't possible to share my network printers (or printers connected direct to my mac) to my mobile phone using bluetooth and Mac?
Why? I want to print my text messages directly from the phone and it can only print to bluetooth printers.

She should be able to print once she chooses your printer. (Of course, your computer needs to be turned on, since it's the one connected to the printer.)

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I have the 8330 BB Curve (my 3rd blackberry) and I am trying to print directly from my bb to a printer via Bluetooth. Now I was in a store and made it work with a multifunction HP printer. I then took home a Canon IP100 portable and got a bluetooth adaptor. Canon, however does not support direct printing, only HP. So I returned it and got a portable HP H470, but the wi-fi version (couldn't get the bluetooth one easily) and tried putting the bluetooth adaptor in it, but cannot get it to print. Any suggestions?

hello,
it is a HP H470 issue. Contact HP support and ask them if there is a way of using that device with a bluetooth adapter.
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My iPhone 5S no longer sees my wireless printer via bluetooth

my iPhone 5S no longer sees my wireless printer via bluetooth. All it does in Settings is continually search for devices. I've rebooted the phone, as well as the printer. I even sat next to the printer with no luck. It did find the printer when I initially set it up.

Did this work for you in the past?
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Helper app -- /print n share
Print directly to the widest range of network or WiFi printers available in any app. Alternatively print via your computer to ALL printers including USB & Bluetooth printers. View read and display large PDF, Office & iWork files. Easily transfer & store files from the Cloud or your computer.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/print-n-share/id301656026?mt=8
You need to buy the right printer.
The iPad uses a print technology called AirPrint. Airprint is a particular communication protocol that flows over WiFi. So, having a WiiFi printer isn't sufficient. The printer needs to be of an Airprint variety of WiFi.
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Pages can save documents to PDF format, but does not open them natively. Use iBooks or one of the many free apps available for that purpose on the App Store.

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We need to do program on the following for iPad.
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Hi PogoPossum,
Thanks for your reply...! and thanks for your suggestions.
We are new to this apple enivronment
After searching no of forums We have an idea that ipad supports head-set & Keyboard (both are bluetooth enabled). Suppose let me explain our idea on this.
There is an ipad which is bluetooth enabled which detects an external keyboard(via bluetooth).
Suppose if i am not wrong from the external keyboard if i type some text (APPLE) then in the ipad (APPLE) will be displayed on a notepad or any app.
In same way vice-versa can be applied or not from the 2nd point? if possible i want to know the flow of communication b/w ipad to keyboard.
If possible then i want to emulate a printer on keyboard, is this is correct that we are thinking...!
Simply from the ipad i will enter some text (APPLE) the same ascii code is given to a printer.
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Connecting to Printer via Bluetooth, documents print gibberish

Howdy,
I have a Canon Pixma iP100 and have recently installed the bluetooth accessory so that I could print wirelessly from my computer and iPhone via bluetooth. However, it won't work! I have sent documents to the printer from my computer and the documents come out in gibberish. Varying about 10 - 20 lines per page, it's become a real waste of paper and is getting to be really frustrating. Once it starts to print a document, it continuously spits out these pages of gibberish until the paper runs out as if there is no 'last page.' It does however print photos.
I also am unable to connect my iPhone to the printer. It will not recognize that the printer is available to connect so therefore won't print anything (documents or photos). Any ideas?
I've followed the Bluetooth Guide that came with the Canon Setup Utility and have set up the bluetooth preferences within it.
I have a Macbook Pro (OS X 10.5.8) and an iPhone 3Gs (4.2.1)
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Hi again:
Since the printer works when cable connected, it appears that he BT connection is the problem (not exactly a startling revelation! ).
You probably have already done so, but my next step would be to contact Canon (tech support) to see if there is a software update and/or a workaround. I am jumping to conclusions, but I suspect the Canon software is not playing well with your Mac.
Barry
P.S. There is no OS X setting that I am aware of that would cause what you describe. However, you could trash a preference file (com.apple.bluetooth.plist) and restart. It would also not hurt to reset the SMC.

IPhone accessing Mac Pro's shared internet via Bluetooth

I have an iPhone 4 which is running without an ATT contract (no cellular) and acting like an iPod.
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via the shared internet service on my Mac pro, connecting via bluetooth.
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I've been having the same problems as everyone else here. Trying to share internet connection from my ethernet wired iMac to my MacBook and my iPhone. Tried all the workarounds, but nothing works, or lasts very long.
Yesterday, I finally talked with AppleCare for over an hour. All their suggestions (trashing preferences, changing settings, etc.) failed, as well. The AppleCare person then put me on hold to speak to an engineer, who told her that Snow Leopard no longer supports Internet Sharing as of 10.6.1.
Not willing to accept that answer, I had them set up an appointment at the Apple Store Genius Bar for me, and after chatting with the Genius for a while, he also confirmed that Internet Sharing is no longer supported under Snow Leopard. Apparently, there were many hardware issues that the engineers decided to circumvent, and so did not include support for Internet Sharing with the internal airport in Macs. They said that the Airport it is intended to receive, not to send a signals! Yet, it worked fine, doing just that, under Tiger and Leopard! The only fix he could offer was to wipe my drive and take me back to 10.5, which I declined.
However both the guy at the Genius Bar and the lady at AppleCare inferred that Apple "may" release another update to fix this issue, if they get enough complaints and bug reports.
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Sharing printer via ethernet

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Accessing windows shared printer via mac over wireless

So i want to share my deskjet 812c thats attached to my pc and be able to print via my MBP over wireless. I simply shared teh printer in windows, but have yet been able to figure it out, or to get it to work. It seems that the MBP will not see the printer, so any advice or any walk throughs would be appreciated.
Thanks

To connect to a shared Windows printer, open the Printer Setup Utility and click More Printers. For the new window, click the drop-down and select Windows Printing and then Network Neighborhood. The workgroup name that has been configured in the Windows computer should display. Double-click the workgroup name and then select the computer name from the new list. A new window will appear asking you to enter your Windows account name and password. Enter these details and click OK. Select the printer share name from the list and then for the Printer Model, browse to HP and then to the Deskjet 812C. If this model is not listed, download a copy of Gutenprint 5.0.0 for Mac OS X (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3). This has the 812C which you can use for network printing. With the 812C selected, click Add.
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Sharing printer with bluetooth?

Hi,
I have an iMac 2.8Ghz Intel machine with a network printer (HP Business Inkjet 1100 connected via USB to a HP JetDirect Ethernet bridge thing).
I need to know if I can share the printer on my iMac with computers using Bluetooth. The reason for this is that when my work laptop (Windows) is on the work VPN, I cannot access my home network which connects to my printer. This means that every time I want to print something, I have to disconnect the VPN first which is a real pain. The VPN client doesn't allow for local network access (it's the Cisco one) and it locks down all other network ports on the laptop except the bluetooth radio. I have tested this by sending files to the iMac whilst the laptop is on the VPN and it works.
I have shared the printer on the iMac and selected bluetooth in the sharing options, but have no idea how to proceed especially on the PC.
Thanks in advance if you can help,
R.

Ok a simple quick but not so very recomended way to print in a hurry.
Share the printer on a machine that has it installed.
Log on to the machine that has the printer shared and right click on the printer and select the connect option.
Now go to printers and it will be there.
Note that you can print only until one machine is re-started.
To print on another occation just logon to the computer that has the printer shared and exit. ( to establish a session)

Printing to a Windows shared printer via SAMBA

I'm trying to setup my mac to print to a printer shared via a Windows PC on my network. I have gone into system preferences / print&fax and added a printer, used the "Advanced" settings on the toolbar, chosen SAMBA and entered the address of the printer as smb://IPADDRESS/printername
When I try to print to this printer, it asks for a username and password. I enter it and then the document briefly appears in the printer queue and then disappears as if it has printed successfully. The document however never appears in my Windows printer queue or actually prints.
CUPS does not return any errors in the CUPS log file. CUPS actually says the printer is idle and accepting jobs.
A friend can print from a windows PC to the printer by using the address \\IPADDRESS\printer name in the manual windows printer setup (the printer does not show up in the browser).
I can also connect to the computer using Leopard's built in SAMBA networking by accessing smb://IPADDRESS so I know the server is active on the network and my username and password work.
Does anybody have any ideas why I am not getting an errors and it's still not working?

Well, that isn't too useful. Try this instead: Adding a printer shared by a Windows computer via SMB/CIFS.
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Using a wired shared printer over bluetooth

With MSI 6967, the user manual says that you can only print directly to bluetooth-enabled printers. This must be untrue? Surely it would be relatively easy to construct simple SW that could send print jobs over bluetooth 'Network Access' to the other pc's local shared (and wired) printer?
I have seen utilities that do this on Mac, and I have seen something for pc altho it prints a watermark over everything until you buy it (I think it was £20, which seems a lot).
I'm only after something simple and freeware/open source. Any ideas?
If there is nothing I may build something myself, if there is enough interest.

I seem to have managed this with my desktop PC running XP Home with an Epson parallel printer and a laptop also running XP Home. I can't claim to understand exactly how I did it but would be more than willing to share any network setting information with you.
Basically I set the printer to be 'shared' under printer properties and both PCs to belong to the same workgroup (MSHOME is the default name).
After experimenting with all sorts of Bluetooth settings to no avail I eventually decided to explore My Network Places, View workgroup computers. Much to my amazement I could see the other PC with the attached printer and could make it the default printer for the laptop!! Needless to say I had to connect the laptop to desktop for network aceess (right-clicking the icon in systray)
The only drawbacks are that 1) it doesn't start printing straight away - maybe 20 second delay and 2) the print monitor doesn't update (it won't tell me how much ink is left etc)
I was pretty sure it should be possible but took me many attempts before I succeeded.
You need to keep an eye on your firewall settings as I found this was blocking some of the attempts to print over the network.
Hope this helps or at least gives some encouragement
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Connecting tablet to printer via bluetooth

i have a sony xperia tablet and just bought a hp office jet 100 mobile printer i have paired them no problem but i do not think i have an app. that supports this they are both bluetooth i cannot print anything , there is no print icon or anything

Hi,
Please try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8f32dTyeBU
You also need Android ePrint app.
Regards.
BH
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