Freddie Lucan-Mercury, you can get a bluetooth thingy for your printer and laptop. I use this set up; you plug a receiver (about the size of a matchbox) into the USB port of the printer and a little USB stick into the laptop if it doesn't already have bluetooth included.
It works fine except that it doesn't seem to be fully bi-directional as it doesn't give me the ink level status indication. But that could be because my printer is now a couple of years old?
The bluetooth system I bought was an Anycom Bluetooth USB Printer Module PM-300 for the printer, plus an Anycom Bluetooth USB Adapter USB-120 for the laptop - total cost around £80.
And you can rest assured that it won't clash with your wireless router - for the hell of it I ran mine the other day at the same time as using a 2 GHz wireless mouse, Vodafone Mobile Connect card on GPRS plus another GPRS phone ringing a DECT handset! No EMC snags whatever with 6 devices all working within a few inches of eachother....
Made my hair drop out though!
PS - Thanks for the coffee the other day!
Last edited by BEagle; 24th January 2005 at 07:37.