Nearly as fast as I got the MacBook, I received the printer I bought at eBay. Just told you, I bought an HP Deskjet 995c, cause this one has bluetooth included and I liked to make the system as flexible as possible. First impression, it’s an heavy printer – the weight of around 6,5kg remembered me on some russian technology…

Anyway, tried to install it as easy as the mouse and the keyboard, but run into problems. The printer was recognized, but I got always the message that no driver was found for it. Looking in the net, they told me that the drivers are included in MacOSX and/or on an install CD which was delivered. So installed driver from CD, driver from the HP homepage but anyway, no chance to let the printer running over bluetooth.

Than, finally, I found a news message describing that it should work, but you have to update the firmware before. And therefore you need a windows system, ok, first time stuck on MacOSX. But had an Windows Copy somewhere lying around, and flashing the new firmware worked fine over USB from Windows on an VMware emulator running at my linux machine. After this firmware update the printer is recognized without problems, printing works fine. The only problem is that the HP administration software is not running on Windows nor on Mac OSX, so anyone can now print on my public accessible bluetooth printer. But I hope there won’t be so many people who figure this out in my mothers apartment.

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