Bluetooth Printing

[Robert J]

Hi,

I need to be able to print a single paged document
(hopefully A4) from my Pocket Pc app.

I am using Symbol MC9000 PDA's that have bluetooth.

The only bluetooth mobile printer I have found is
the HP Deskjet 450wbt, all other seem to only print
out 2 to 4 inch thermal parking ticket style prints.

HP do provide a mobile printing SDK that will allow
you to print RTF and pocket word documents, plus
BMP, JPG and PNG.

Is it possible to build up a report in RTF or Pocket Word format in Code on
the compact framework.

The option I have seen is by Field Software PrinterCE.NetCF
which allows you to build up documents in code and then print
them.

Any other ideas from you Gurus and Gurus in training ?

Cheers

Robert

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

PrinterCE is a common and well recommended solution for printing with
..NETCF. On the other hand RTF could be constructed on the fly. If you open
up an RTF document you'll find it consists of a number of markup codes and
text. Full specification here:-
http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm

Peter