Question Make A Windows Printer (Virtual Printer) Bluetooth Discoverable

[SiamIT]

Greetings..

For a project, i need to make a virtual printer on windows to be discoverable by Bluetooth so that mobile device can connect to printer and print anything from their mobile.

virtual printer, will save the print as a PDF file, and my application will do the post processing.

Windows computer will have Bluetooth adapter attached to it.

any thought/suggestion?
I already know any workaround that is make the printer shareable to all networks device, but that is not i need as the use mobile needs to be connect to same network for that

so, any idea how i can make my virtual printer available to Bluetooth devices like mobile phone?

thanks in advance
best regards

 

[Skydiver]

I have no idea, but I would start here to see if Windows will even let you turn on the Bluetooth radio and have it advertise as some kind of printing or storage device:

Bluetooth GATT Server - UWP applications

This article provides an overview of Bluetooth Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) Server for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps, along with sample code for common use cases.

learn.microsoft.com

And if that is doable, figure out how to actually receive the thing to be printed and convert to PDF.
And once that is done, the last step would be to just send the PDF to the actual printer.
Once you have the end-to-end working, then go back to insert the post-processing step that you have planned.

 

[dh123]

Greetings..

For a project, i need to make a virtual printer on windows to be discoverable by Bluetooth so that mobile device can connect to printer and print anything from their mobile.

virtual printer, will save the print as a PDF file, and my application will do the post processing.

Windows computer will have Bluetooth adapter attached to it.

any thought/suggestion?
I already know any workaround that is make the printer shareable to all networks device, but that is not i need as the use mobile needs to be connect to same network for that

so, any idea how i can make my virtual printer available to Bluetooth devices like mobile phone?

thanks in advance
best regards

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