News BlueTake BT200 Bluetooth Printer Adapter at ModTown

ModTown take a look at an interesting bluetooth doohicky for your printer:

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"The BlueTake BT200 Bluetooth Printer Adaptor, is a quick and effective solution for upgrading a parallel port printer into a Bluetooth wireless printer. The BT200 is easy to install, allowing users to carry out a full installation without the need to reinstall the printer drivers. By replacing the printer parallel cable the BT200 enables easy wireless printing from any Bluetooth enabled device such as a desktop, laptop or PDA..."

Full review here

 

Thanks GOO.

In case anyone read the review before I made an edit and uploaded the change, the point I made about manually connecting has been clarified.

Seems it only needs to be done once if you are the only user, as the BT200 will cache the Bluetooth device MAC address, only releasing it when another device connects.

In a multi-user environment, you may need to manually connect again, as some other device MAC address could be in the BT200 cache.

 

I always wondered if these would work with a parallel Lcd? Thought it could be quite cool to have a small wireless Lcd for stats etc. I think they sell 802.11b ones too, mebbe that would work better for Lcd?

 

That's a super idea CrOaKeR...!

If I can get my mittens on a parallel LCD, Ill give it ago for sure (well I have one, but tis not wired, anyone want to send me one on loan wired? )

I don't think the 802.11b idea would work, as its a different interface. The parallel Bluetooth adaptor could be modified, im pretty confident about that...