Printing with Bluetooth - Does Anybody Care?
Ok,
Here’s your chance to directly influence one of the chapters for “Bluetooth for Java” 2nd edition. Is wireless printing a topic that should be addressed in the new book? If so, then leave a comment describing why you think it needs to be included.
Any comment is fine. You can even say, “Bruce, I work for HP, and my job depends on folks printing more stuff, so please include a chapter on printing”.
:-)
January 7th, 2009 at 01:12
Yes it should definitely be added. It is useful for if someone wanted to push a printed ad or document via the bluetooth device.
January 7th, 2009 at 02:15
Joe,
Thanks for the comment. I plan to totally re-write the current printing chapter, so that you can use print to a BPP or HCRP enabled printer.
Thanks,
Bruce
July 15th, 2010 at 13:58
Hi Bruce, Printing with Bluetooth, does anybody care? Yes I do very much so. I am developing mobile apps in J2ME, yes I know, but I prefer to call it J2ME. I have made some progress and now I want to add printing, and exchange of reasonably small amounts of data, by both bluetooth and wifi. I have had a fairly close read of your book and found it to be hard going, but stuck at it and kept going over it a number of times. Now I think that I have a reasonable level of understanding. My prime objective is to be able to print from my midlet to a bluetooth printer. I am currently trying to get the PiconetMIDlet in chapter 5 to work but it seems to have a number of mistakes in it, and this has made life difficult. I looked on your website for updated source code but it is the same as in the book. I would have really loved it if your book had a working example of how to print data from a midlet directly to a bluetooth enabled printer. I am surprised that this isn’t a topic in hot demand.