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Epson's Bluetooth solution for the Stylus C80 printer, the Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter, is an external unit that plugs into the printer's parallel port. The impress adapter comes with its own AC adapter and has two status lights and a test impress push button, although with the C80 we found that the lights and the button are hard to see on the bottom of the impress adapter when it is installed on the printer's back panel.

Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter

At that place's practically nothing to do to install the Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter. All that is required is that you plug it into the printer parallel port, plug in the Ac adapter, plough on the printer, and and then printing the exam button on the adapter. If everything is connected correctly, a status folio prints with the network settings. Y'all don't need to actually use this information to utilize the adapter.

Nosotros used a 3Com Bluetooth Wireless PC Card, Model 3CRWB6096, installed in a Dell Inspiron 8011 notebook with 3Com's latest Bluetooth drivers to test the Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter at a 9.5-human foot range. Annotation that the documentation recommends using a Troy Wireless WINDConnect card, but the documentation too refers to the 3Com Bluetooth PC Carte du jour, and according to Troy Wireless, which is the visitor that makes the Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter, any Bluetooth v.1.1 compliant Bluetooth adapter will work with the Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter.

Bluetooth Connection Manager

Information technology isn't necessary to install any special software on client PCs to print via a Bluetooth PC adapter connection with an Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter other than the standard printer driver and monitoring software. The Epson Bluetooth Print Adapter works via a virtual Com port, a mutual method for Bluetooth device connections. From the Bluetooth Connection Director's main screen select Tools and Com Ports to determine which port to employ for Bluetooth printing between the notebook and the printer.

Bluetooth Connection Manager

If the Bluetooth enabled printer is in range of a PC with the printer drivers installed and you lot know the virtual Com port to use, configuring the PC to use the port is unproblematic. Select Start/Settings/Printers, right click on the printer you lot wish to print to, click Properties, click the Port tab (in Windows 2000), and select the Com port that corresponds with the virtual Com port y'all've identified with your Bluetooth software on the figurer.

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