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10 Hardcopy Cable Replacement
10.1 Introduction
The Bluetooth Hardcopy Cable Replacement profile (HCRP) provides services to replace
the cable between a host and peripheral device with a Bluetooth link. The most common
devices using these services are laptops and desktop computers, however other devices
are not excluded.
The HCRP profile can be used in the following scenario:
♦ Print a document using a Bluetooth Printer.
10.2 Print a Document Using a Bluetooth Printer
This section outlines how to print a document from Computer A (client) using a Bluetooth
Printer (server)
Computer A: Bluetooth Printer B:
Notebook/Laptop, PIII, 800MHz, 128M Bluetooth Printer
A Bluetooth USB dongle
Windows 2000
IVT BlueSoleil™
Step 1: Insert the Bluetooth USB dongle into the computer.
Step 2: Start BlueSoleil™ in the computer.
Step 3: Set device name of the computer to anything you want. Here it is
named Computer A.
♦ In the BlueSoleil™ Main Window of Computer A, click Tools | My
Bluetooth Device . Enter ‘Computer A’ in the device name field
in the My Bluetooth Device window.
Step 4: Turn on the Bluetooth printer to provide the HCRP service for
Computer A.
Step 5: Search for Bluetooth devices on Computer A
In the Main Window, double click the ‘My Device icon’. Wait a few
seconds. The discovered surrounding devices appear.
Step 6: Search the HCRP services of Printer B.
Double-click the printer named ‘Printer’. The HCRP service icon turns
red.
Step 7: Connect the two devices.
♦ Double-click the HCRP service icon to connect Computer A and
the Bluetooth printer.
Step 8:
The connection is established.
♦ After the connection setup is completed, a dashed line between
the My Device icon (or ‘center ball’) and the Bluetooth Printer
icon appears and the HCRP service icon turns green. (Figure
10.3)