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HCRP

Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile (HCRP)

HCRP defines how driver-based printing is accomplished over a Bluetooth wireless link.

Usage Scenarios

Printing or scanning any type of document from your PC or laptop wirelessly to a printer.

Example Products

Here are a few examples of the types of devices that you might find using the HCRP:

Printer
PC
Laptop

Getting Technical

The HCRP defines two roles, that of a Server and a Client:

Server – This is the server device that offers the Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile as a service.
Client – The client is a device containing a print driver for the server on which the client wishes to print.

The Baseband, LMP, and L2CAP are the OSI layer 1 and 2 Bluetooth protocols. SDP is the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol. HCRP is the Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile (this profile).

Interoperability between devices using this profile depends on the presence of peer applications running on top of the HCRP layer in both the Client and the Server. On the client side this application takes the form of a driver; on the server device, it is usually an interpreter or generator of a page description format. This application layer is outside the scope of this profile. If the driver application is not available on the client, interoperability between the devices may fail.

Need more? View the Hardcopy Cable Replacement Profile (HCRP) v1.2.

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