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[Q] Bluetooth Printing

Will our phones print web pages and such over the Bluetooth? My wife does a lot of printing coupons and I figured it would be one more IP to print from if its possible. I know it wont print them via cloud and such. Thanks in advance

Take a look at PrinterShare. This page doesn't mention BT but the app supports it. Try the free, crippled version first to check compatibility.
http://www.printeranywhere.com/mobile.sdf

I saw that but if I get a new printer Id like to do it over bluetooth.

Printers over wifi & Google cloud print are pretty well fail proof. If running ICS ull have the ability to run chrome. Chrome from ur main PC or notebook use chrome, go into settings advanced settings. Click Google cloud print to add ur new wifi printer. It's all self explanatory from there.

Printing to wifi printer

So I finally got printing all worked out on my captivate. I have a wireless printer and really want to leave the laptop on the desk and use my phone for everything. The one major problem has been printing. Finally, here's an answer...
To Print from your Captivate, it will cost you about $4.50 (or limit yourself to 3 docs a month.)
General Printing - test this first
Get PrintBot from the market (free version to test out - supposed to cover 2700 wireless printers)
Open it and setup your printer. My settings are...
Network Connection : Protocol - Auto Printer - choose your own
Printer : Re-select your printer
And print a test page. If this works, you are in business
Printing an Excel or Word Document:
Printbot is great for pictures and pdfs, but it doesn't print office docs, so those that your coworker emailed you just sit there So here's the great workaround.
First make sure you install these two programs:
From the market, find and install google documents, open it and sign in. Make sure you can use this on your cappy.
From the market, find "My Docs - Google Docs" (by RCS, LLC), install it and sign in.
Now you are about ready! Don't give up hope to soon!
You must upload your file to Google Docs, but for some odd reason it doesn't allow you to upload xls into it (unless I'm and idiot and can't find the upload button). But "My Docs" allows this. So open up My docs, click upload, and choose your file. It will be uploaded to your google docs account. You can close mydocs, it has served it's purpose.
Open your google documents (called "Docs" in the app drawer), find the file you uploaded (don't need to open it), from the arrow on the right side - open the pull down menu and click "SEND", choose "PrintBot" from the menu and your doc should start to print. Whew! Lots of steps, but it's done and printed. Caution! Watchout for multipage excel files, it will print each and every worksheet.
And Finally Printing Email from Gmail:
For some crazy reason, none of these programs interface easily. So you are in your gmail app and want to print off your free redbox rental code or some password you keep forgetting. Leave the email alone and open up your browser (yep, back to the www).
Go to the online version of mobile gmail. Sign in and open the email you want to print (I set up a shortcut on my homescreen). On the right side of the email, open the pulldown menu (double down arrows) and click "Print". This will open up google cloud print. You should have an option to "save to google docs" where it converts your email to a pdf and stores it in google docs. Then click "PRINT", it will create a pdf document of your email. you can close the www, or just surf around for a while...
Now back to google documents on you phone, find the pdf, click the menu on the right, click send and send it to Printbot. It will print your pdf.
And that's the whole 99 steps to printing documents with your captivate. OO) Actually it works pretty quick as long as you use your home wifi. I tested it with excel, word, and gmail files.
Good luck - Will

Or, check out Cypria Free from the market.

thanks
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mrhaley30705 said:
Or, check out Cypria Free from the market.
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That would work for photos, but I wanted emails, excel, word too. Plus Cypria is epson printers. But I'm sure it works great for most uses.

Sorry about the epson part. Wasn't thinking about everyone else.
Try Printer Share from the market. Works for more printers and prints almost everything.

mrhaley30705 said:
Try Printer Share from the market. Works for more printers and prints almost everything.
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That looks like it would work better, and has the with the ability to choose which pages to print. A bit more expensive, but probably worth it of you printed a fair number of pages.

It was free in Amazon app market a while back. Maybe the will do it again.
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So anyone tried the print option yet?

Hey everyone.
I use the (cloud) print option daily, and with the N4 I used the official Cloud Print app, which puts a CP option in the Share menu. With the N5, this isn't even an option. The Coud Print app shows up as installed in the Play Store, but there's no option for it in existing apps. I suspect this will require all apps to be updated, which is a problem. I will have to install a thrid party Cloud Print app too.
If anyone has a workaround for this I'd be glad to know.

Cloud Print - Unavailable

I know it worked before from within Chrome. I could choose any of my devices and the file would show up in downloads....
Now after selecting my Nexus 7 for example, everything is greyed out including the print button. After a few seconds it says Cloud Print - Unavailable beneath the device.
From the PC web cloud printer management, it says my devices are online and available.
Have tried clearing data from print spooler, cloud print and chrome. Even uninstalled chrome updates (Print becomes Save after un installing updates.). Any ideas? Clear services framework?
Asked a friend and her stuff is greyed out also?
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

I have the same problem. Did you ever figure it out?

I have the exact issue, have you found a fix? (Brother HL-5450DN Laser Printer)

if your using the chrome tray applet on a windows desktop install (7 & up) & received an update to chrome on your desktop prior to the issue,
simply reboot the *desktop* b0x..

Problem with cloud print

Hello, I have a problem with cloud print in the nexus 5. From the computer and with my chrome's account I activated the USB printer which is shared on the network (the printer have not wifi), when I open the menu for print any document (or anything that can be printed) instantly (1 second) the menu is closed and a message saying "the application cloud print has been stopped". I have everything stock and have restored the phone. If I get before the application stops (in 1 second) click on the option and then choose "Save As PDF" the menu does not close and I can select the printer then, and print without giving the app closes. If I delete cloud print with Clean Master and I downloaded the apk and install, runs smoothly, so not where the problem is.
Do you know that can happen?

Nothing? ****

yeiyei0891 said:
... If I delete cloud print with Clean Master and I downloaded the apk and install, runs smoothly...
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Please forgive me for not understanding. Does the above mean that it's working now?
Sent from my Nexus 5

No, for this i'd have to remove the app pre-installled in nexus, I tried this but I restored the phone