Canon BU-30 Bluetooth Adapter for PIXMA MX850
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: CanonAudio: English (Original Language)
Model: 2553B002
Color: Grey
Product features:
- Compatible with: PIXMA (iP100, mini320, MP470, MP480, MP520, MP610, MP970, MX850), PowerShot A530/SELPHY (CP740 Combo, CP740, CP760, CP770, ES2)
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Customer Review: Waste of time and $50 - major Canon fail.
Summary: 1 Stars
First I bought the Canon Selphy CP-800 printer so my wife could print 4 x 6's from her MacBook. Failure #1. Contrary to any other printer I've ever tried, this printer cannot connect to my wireless print server (an Apple Time Machine) via its USB port. So, no wireless printing, and I called Canon to ask for a solution. No problem, says Canon, buy our BU-30 Bluetooth Adapter for another $50 and you'll be all set. Failure #2. Any of my 3 Mac laptops can easily connect to the BT adapter quickly. But, it's not a print server in any sense of the word. It's just to push a file to the printer, so one can't print directly, either from iPhoto or Canon's own Selphy Printer software, because the printer isn't really hooked up to the computer. This means you need to make a note of the file name and its folder, and search for it by that name (not by sight) and use your Bluetooth software utility to push the file to the printer. Try that with a few thousand files, or even just a few dozen, to search through. Failure #3. There's a limit to the file size you can transfer using the BU-30, and it's apparently a ridiculously tiny size. My wife's Canon P&S cam generates JPG files usually between 3 and 4 MB, hardly very large by current standards. After a 2+ minute attempt to transfer the file, the transfer ultimately fails, with the printer giving a message of "file too large". Another call to Canon, and I'm told the BU-30 is really just made for file transfer from camera phones, so just for laughs I tried a picture from my iPhone 4, still too large. What a joke. Failure #4 for Canon's poor customer service and description of this product.
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