Basic Printing Profile (BPP)

BPP allows devices to send text, emails, vCards, images or other items to printers based on print jobs.

Usage Scenarios

Print emails, images, vCard, vCalendar, text messages and plain or formatted text from devices like a mobile phone or PDA to a printer. There are also options to edit and format the information you are printing either using the "sender" or the "printer" depending on the devices.

Example Products

Here are a few examples of the types of devices that you might find using the Basic Printing Profile:

• Printer
• PC
• Mobile Phone
• PDA

Getting Technical

The BPP defines two roles, that of a sender and a printer.

• Printer – Device which renders the information to be printed. This is typically a physical printer or PC acting as a proxy for a printer connected via another physical transport such as USB.
• Sender – Typically the mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA which desires to print without the overhead of a driver.

BPPdiffers from HCRP in that it needs no printer-specific drivers. This makes it more suitable for embedded devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras which cannot easily be updated with drivers dependent upon printer vendors. Baseband, LMP, and L2CAP are the OSI layer 1 and 2 Bluetooth protocols. RFCOMM is the Bluetooth adaptation of GSM TS 07.10. SDP is the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol. OBEX is the Bluetooth adaptation of IrOBEX. Need more? View the Basic Imaging Profile (BPP) 1.2.