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What is Bluetooth?

Bluetooth™ is a short-distance wireless technology that is optimized for low cost and low power consumption. In many ways you can think of Bluetooth™ as a cable replacement technology that eliminates the need for numerous and inconvenient cable attachments for connecting mobile devices

Because of its simplicity and low power usage, Bluetooth™ is ideal for devices like cell phones and digital cameras. Printing is another obvious application for Bluetooth™ wireless technology. Though still in its infancy, the explosive growth in the markets of mobile printing and wireless technologies will provide a wide range of new applications and requirements for printing.

Bluetooth™ technology

With Bluetooth™ technology, all connections are instant and automatic. The tiny Bluetooth™ microchip, incorporating a radio transceiver, is built into the devices and ensures fast and secure transmissions of both voice and data. The radio operates in a globally available frequency band, ensuring compatibility worldwide.

The Bluetooth™ technology is designed to be fully functional even in a very noisy radio environment, and its voice transmissions are audible under severe conditions.

The technology also provides a very high transmission rate, and all data are protected by advanced error-correction methods, as well as encryption and authentication routines for the user’s privacy.

Current aspects

Bluetooth™ technology enables a lot of functions to make life easier. It allows you to send files from one mobile computer to another as easily as over a LAN, or to surf the Internet regardless of your location.

By installing a Bluetooth™ network at your office, you will no longer be bound to certain locations for connection and you don’t need to draw new cables for new installations.

Future aspects

Because Bluetooth™ wireless technology can be used for a variety of purposes, it will also potentially replace multiple cable connections via a single radio link. This creates the possibility of using mobile data in a different way for different applications, such as "surfing on the sofa", "three in one phone", and many others.

MPI Tech and the Bluetooth™ SIG

MPI Tech is an associate member of the Bluetooth™ Special Interest Group (SIG). Using its extensive network connectivity experience, MPI Tech participates actively in the specification work as a member of the Bluetooth™ Printing Profile Working Group together with other major industry players such as: Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Lexmark, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia & Toshiba.

More than 2,000 companies world wide are now members of the Bluetooth SIG, signifying the industry’s unprecedented acceptance of the technology.