iMac and Ambicom Bluetooth Print Server
Hi,
I just bought a new iMac and want to use bluetooth printing so I can share out my printer with other PC's in the house. I purchased the Ambicom Bluetooth Printer Kit from CompUSA, but I cannot get the iMac to find a printer to use.
I hooked it to my photosmart 7960 (which was attached to the iMac to get the naggins setup screen from HP to go away) and bluetooth discovery finds the print server which it identifies as Hp 7960 SRW Mobile Printer. Bluetooth setup then tries to install it, but fails with configuration error, no printer drivers can be found.
Not that a Mac is windows, but is the concept of printer drivers the same under a Mac? Once a printer driver is installed, the system will use the driver. I never installed any other drivers under windows, just plugged in a bluetooth adapter and viola, it used the currently installed driver for the 7960.
I know that if I plug the 7960 back into the USB port, it works fine, I just cannot figur out how to make it print wirelessly using bluetooth.
Has anyone gotten the Ambicom bluetooth printer kit to work on a Mac? And if so, what version of OSX are you running? I am wondering if there was something changes during an update because I noticed that bluetooth was updated in the last update package.
Any thoughts?
iMac 24" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo - 2 Gig RAM
I just bought a new iMac and want to use bluetooth printing so I can share out my printer with other PC's in the house. I purchased the Ambicom Bluetooth Printer Kit from CompUSA, but I cannot get the iMac to find a printer to use.
I hooked it to my photosmart 7960 (which was attached to the iMac to get the naggins setup screen from HP to go away) and bluetooth discovery finds the print server which it identifies as Hp 7960 SRW Mobile Printer. Bluetooth setup then tries to install it, but fails with configuration error, no printer drivers can be found.
Not that a Mac is windows, but is the concept of printer drivers the same under a Mac? Once a printer driver is installed, the system will use the driver. I never installed any other drivers under windows, just plugged in a bluetooth adapter and viola, it used the currently installed driver for the 7960.
I know that if I plug the 7960 back into the USB port, it works fine, I just cannot figur out how to make it print wirelessly using bluetooth.
Has anyone gotten the Ambicom bluetooth printer kit to work on a Mac? And if so, what version of OSX are you running? I am wondering if there was something changes during an update because I noticed that bluetooth was updated in the last update package.
Any thoughts?
iMac 24" Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2.33 Ghz Core 2 Duo - 2 Gig RAM