View Full Version : Using a USB Bluetooth Dongle in a printer?
X Destruction
05-23-2003, 05:47 PM
Will you be able to use a USB Bluetooth Dongle in a printer? I'm thinking of getting the bluegear dual usb dongles (only one really in Canada). I have nothing I can do with the second one. I have a printer with a square-type usb (I believe it's male-a) and a parellel serial port. I would like to know if I can use a usb gender changer and the second bluetooth dongle to send a bluetooth signal from the printer's dongle to the computer's dongle, and print papers. I need some use for the second dongle. I don't have it yet, but I'm asking if it'll work.
s_n_m
05-23-2003, 06:55 PM
It wont work. You can't change genders (electronically anyways...)
BT dongles are upstream USB, printers are downstream USB. You need a host compatable with both streams to print, such as a PC. Or you can buy a bluetooth printer! That would work, but you would still have a dongle left...
Oh well two dongles are better than one (electronically too! :D)!
X Destruction
05-23-2003, 07:01 PM
What are these for then?
http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/SearchResults.aspx?language=en-CA&keywords=usb+gender+changer&pagenum=0
USBPhreak
05-23-2003, 10:50 PM
To act as cable extenders, that's all.
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