Printing to a Zebra printer over Bluetooth using Perspective app for Android phone?

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Good afternoon,

We have been looking into using Bluetooth to connect Android-based scanners to Zebra printers for mobile label printing from a cart. The Android phone can connect to the printer via Bluetooth and has Ignition Perspective 8.1 installed. Everything is setup and ready to print labels, but we expected to be able to print to the printer via IP, not Bluetooth.

Is it possible to send a ZPL message to the Zebra printer via the Perspective app on the phone?
Is there another way of doing this that we’re not thinking of?
Can Ignition write to nearby devices with Bluetooth, or is the Bluetooth component in Perspective more for taking in data/scanning for nearby devices?

Thanks

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No.

What bluetooth component?

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Assuming the Ignition Gateway can see the Zebra printer on the network, I would explore having a script on the gateway that sends commands to the printer via TCP/IP and called from the Perspective app. Bluetooth would require a Zebra app on the Android device I think, but I’m not 100% on that. That would require app dependency.