HP CB004A Bluetooth Printer Card for HP Deskjet 450 and 460 Series Mobile Printers

List Price: $110.47 Discount Price: $91.00

Features:

• Bluetooth Printer Card
• For HP Deskjet 450 and 460 Series Mobile Printers
• Print Where It Is Convenient/From any Bluetooth Enabled Device
• Print From Up to 32 Ft From Your PC or Other Bluetooth-Enabled Device
• 0.03 lbs (WxLxH) 1.60" x 1.65" x 0.20"

Customer Reviews:

received and it has never worked [Posted on 2007-09-09]
well, after receiving this little card, i followed the simple direction and plugged it in. the card lit up. my bluetooth would never recognize it. i spent about an hour on the phone with hp tech support. they had me run some hardware diagnostics on my printer. never worked according to h-p. please send me a new one.

Good only for text, not graphics [Posted on 2008-03-20]
Plus sides: Works flawlessly with a MacBook running OSX-Leopard. Simply pair it up using the little Bluetooth icon in the menubar, and then it automatically appears in your printer list complete with printer driver. To access the HP toolbox to do alignments and view ink levels and set print quality and such, simply open the print queue for the printer, and click on the little "Toolbox" icon at the right-top of the print queue window. It all Just Worked(tm), which is a testament to both the Mac and to HP.

Minus sides: As with all Bluetooth devices, fairly short range (will work across a room, will *not* work from a different room). *EXCRUCIATINGLY* slow at printing graphics via Bluetooth -- a photo that took about 45 seconds to print via USB managed to print about 1 inch of photo after 5 minutes on Bluetooth.

All in all, it works well for what it is, but runs into the limits of Bluetooth -- i.e., slow and short range -- and thus I can't really recommend it unless you just absolutely *have* to be wireless for some reason. It works, but is a poor value. Just plug in a USB cable and be done with it.

In concept, a great feature to add [Posted on 2008-03-27]
The 460 is a great little printer, I bring it on business trips all the time, and people are always excited to see it (to print boarding passes, contracts, etc.)

I was interested in going completely wireless using the battery and this BT card, but it is SLOW. It's directly next to my laptop right now and it took about 5 minutes to print a page that took no more than 20 seconds over USB. The file was not that large either.

It is quicker to fly back home, pick up a USB cable, fly back, and use that cable than it is to print off a few documents over Bluetooth using this card.

But, in concept it would have been a great feature to add to an otherwise amazing and functional portable printer. (Now, if this printer could scan and fax over VoIP/IP as well, that would be orgasmic!)

Works well, but fragile [Posted on 2008-04-12]
This is our second card. We use it with our printer out in the field. Made the mistake of sticking the printer wireless-card-side-down in the computer bag. Needless to say, it cracked off. Easy to set up to talk with all of our laptops...both times.

I don't understand the negative reviews?!?! [Posted on 2008-04-26]
I have what amounts to a portable office in my car; HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop in the passenger seat and a battery powered HP Deskjet 460 printer in the back seat that communicates with the laptop via the HP CB004A Bluetooth card.

The set up was easy and printing with this card works all of the time. I have no complaints about the speed for text and graphics. I also have several other devices in the car and nothing interferes with the signal when I'm printing.

I don't have internal Bluetooth in the laptop so I use an external USB device but I doubt that it has anything to do with how well it works. If anything I wish the battery charge lasted longer but I don't really have any complaints about this card.

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