Bluetooth or Wi-Fi printing – Which is right for your organization?

Have you ever wondered if your organization is better suited to Bluetooth or Wi-Fi printing? So have many of our customers. To ensure we have options to meet our customer’s needs we’ve recently added Bluetooth to our printing capability.

To help you decide if Bluetooth or Wi-Fi printing is best for you we’ve pulled together the benefits of each.

What is Bluetooth?

Bluetooth uses a low power wireless network to connect devices within close range. The maximum range for Bluetooth is ten meters and the devices have to be in the same room – walls and objects could cause interference. Bluetooth networks have the advantage of being easy to maintain because all you need is two Bluetooth compatible devices. No routers or other networking equipment is necessary.

Using Bluetooth printing would be ideal for smaller companies that have a weak wireless network that isn’t reliable enough or if it is difficult to connect to your printer due to your company’s high level of security.

Benefits of printing with Bluetooth

Free up your Wi-Fi network

Avoid connection loss and drop outs.

Print it right the first time

Set up printing in seconds

Easily fixed when problems occur

Save Power

What is Wi-Fi?

Wi-Fi printers are accessible over a Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi normally uses a similar radio band to Bluetooth, but with more power. Devices that connect over a Wi-Fi network must be within about 100 meters of a central wireless access point, though with repeaters the range can be greatly extended. Generally speaking, if your computers all have decent access to the Internet over Wi-Fi, they should have no problems accessing a Wi-Fi printer, provided that the printer is within range of the Wi-Fi router as well.

Wi-Fi is ideal for companies that have a strong wireless connection and a secure and easy way to connect to the printer.

Benefits of printing with Wi-Fi

Greater signal range available with Wi-Fi.

Print directly from handheld devices

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