How to print with 3Com

How to print via the 3Com and HP Wireless Bluetooth PC card

Warning: You must update the 3Com Bluetooth software. Updating the 3Com Bluetooth software ensures that the Bluetooth Printer Adapter and your Laptop can communicate properly.

Note: Before printing, make sure that the Bluetooth PC card is installed and properly functioning. To locate instructions for installing the Bluetooth PC card, please see one of the following references;

• The documentation that came with your Bluetooth PC card
• The manufacturer's web site or customer support

Part 1: Preparation

1. Power on the Bluetooth Printer Adapter and the printer to which it is connected. Please refer to the Quick Guide that was supplied together with your Bluetooth Printer Adapter.
2. Power on your computer with the Bluetooth PC card and software installed.

Part 2: Record the COM port number

1. Start the Bluetooth Connection Manager on your computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click COM Ports.
3. The Bluetooth COM Ports dialog is displayed. Record the COM port number of the 3Com Bluetooth Serial Client port.

Part 3: Add printer

The steps below varies slightly depending on your version of Windows. Please refer to your Windows documentation.

1. On the Start menu click Settings, Printers.
2. Click Add Printer. Click Next.
3. Select Local Printer. Click Next.
4. Select the COM port with the number you recorded in part 2, step 3 and click Next. If the COM port is not listed, then restart the computer and add the printer again.
5. Click Have Disk to install the files from the printer manufacturer's installation disk (or downloaded the files from the manufacturer's web site). Click Next.
6. Enter Printer name and select the printer as default. Click Next.
7. Select Do not share this printer. Click Next.
8. Answer No to print the Windows test page. Click Next.
9. Click Finish.

Part 4: Print

1. Open any Windows program and print to the printer you created in part 3.
2. If the Select Remote Device dialog appears, select the printer - its Friendly Name is '<Printer name>, Bluetooth Printer Adapter'. Click Connect to print.
3. Collect your printout in the printer.
   For additional printouts you need only repeat part 4.

The Select Remote Device dialog in part 4, step 2 appears when a Windows program opens a Bluetooth COM port that has been configured to prompt for the remote device (printer). Click Always use for this connection in the Select Remote Device dialog to avoid the dialog from appearing.