Re: [Bluez-devel] basic printing profile server?

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Adam,

> I was wondering if anyone has worked on a basic printing profile server 
> for Linux? By server, I mean a way that phones or other small devices 
> can send jobs to a Linux desktop host which would then print through 
> CUPS (or lpd, etc.).

there have been ideas about it, but I can't recall an actual
implementation. However it might happen that INdT starts working on
something like this in the future.

> It seems like a missing piece, since CUPS can already print to bluetooth 
> printers.

The CUPS plugin can only print via HCRP and Serial Port Profile.

> My new phone supports printing of SMS messages and photos, so before I 
> try writing a server for it, I wanted to check to see if someone has 
> done it.

There are many printing profiles around. You should check which one the
phone actually uses. Run "hcidump -X -V" and look for the profile UUID
it requests.

Regards

Marcel



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