Bluetooth Print Server Printer Driver DeskJet 880c

[Guest]

I have a D-Link Bluetooth adaptor dbt-120 and their Blue Tooth Print Server
DBT-320. The devices work properly with several HP DeskJets including the
840c and the 5740.

When using a DeskJet 880c items print properly for Notepad but items
printed from MS Word, Acrobat etc do not work properly. In Word a partial
row of periods are printer, In Acrobat a lot of garbage is printed at the top
and several pages eject.

I tried the DeskJet 882 driver and several other DeskJet drivers.

I suspect it is a driver issue since as i mentioned several printers worked
with the DBT-120 DBT-320 pair.

Is there a way to get an alternate driver for Windows XP and the DeskJet
880c printer?

Thank You,

 

[Guest]

Have you tried the latest driver from HP?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=61607&lang=en
Software & Driver downloads - HP Deskjet 880c Printer

Hal
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[Guest]

Hi Hal,

Thank you for your recommendation. I used the driver included in Windows
XP since that was the recommendation for the 880c on HP's suport page. I
will download the driver from the HP site and give it a try.

Bruno

 

[Guest]

I went to download the driver from the HP site but all that there is when you
follow the link is the statement that the driver is included in XP.

"You do not need to download a printer driver from the Web. The drivers for
HP Deskjet printers are already included in Windows XP."

 

[Guest]

Hi,

The link to the dirver only leads to a statement that the drivers are
included in windows xp. I wondered if there is something else to try?

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

There probably is something else, but I don't know what it might be. I
don't know what controls the Bluetooth link offers; your original
description could, if we were talking about a parallel cable, indicate the
need to turn off bidirectional support or make some other such change to the
port settings - some HP printers are finicky about such things. You might
want to run this by HP and D-Link tech support. If it is a driver/setup
issue, others will likely be seeing the same problem.

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

 

[Guest]

Hello Hal,

Thank you for your reply. I did have bidirectional printing turned off.

I also checked with HP tech support and their response was that the 880c is
a host based printer and needs resources of the host computer to function.

Again thank you for your assistance with this issue.