adamge Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 I have some Chinese bluetooth thermal battery powered printers. These work decently with Google Android devices. The printer becomes a Share option in Practiscore, so I just hit Share and it prints. However now we are switching to Amazon tablets because they are cheaper. But it seems like there's no way to cause the Share button to print to the printer. I can download the Bluetooth Print app and print inside that App. In Android this is where the Printer Driver install comes in, and I'm using POS Printer Driver for that. But there seems to be no support in Amazon OS for printer drivers. Has anyone cracked this biscuit? euxx, can you just tie in the Bluetooth Print app inside the Practiscore apk so pressing the share button sends the content to this 3rd party app, which then prints, all in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euxx Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Hmm... What is the question exactly?As far as I know, USPSA Eastern Lakes Sectional match did run Kindles with portable BT printers this year. I didn't had to change PractiScore for that match and they reported everything worked flawless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamge Posted December 17, 2017 Author Share Posted December 17, 2017 I've never used a Kindle. Are they running the same OS as the Fire tablets? Can you put me in touch with those users? I could send you our club's printer and Fire HD 8 tablet, if that would help the development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euxx Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 adamge, it works on all Android devices with Bluetooth, including the Kindle Fire ones. If you need any details please email support@practiscore.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raks Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Did you get this working? We bought a fire HD 8 and I was able to get the printer driver working but it required adding an unsupported version of the Google play store. I'm worried that any updates will break this. Love to hear any one elses thoughts, we are likely going all Lenovo/Android for the IPSC Canadian Nationals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKi_ipscfin Posted April 15, 2018 Share Posted April 15, 2018 (edited) Just test with cheap Aliexpress printer, and Fire 7. need sideload Google services and Play store. then you can load working printer driver app. https://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fidelier.posprinterdriver https://www.aliexpress.com/item/IMP006A-Hot-sales-58mm-weight-400g-Mini-Thermal-Printer-With-Lithium-ion-batteries-For-Android-Warranty/32702654484.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.VnRAJK Edited April 15, 2018 by KKi_ipscfin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakfrost1 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 On 4/15/2018 at 5:38 PM, KKi_ipscfin said: Just test with cheap Aliexpress printer, and Fire 7. need sideload Google services and Play store. then you can load working printer driver app. https://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fidelier.posprinterdriver https://www.aliexpress.com/item/IMP006A-Hot-sales-58mm-weight-400g-Mini-Thermal-Printer-With-Lithium-ion-batteries-For-Android-Warranty/32702654484.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.VnRAJK Well I did my best...and did the above exactly as described, being very careful to load each file in the correct order, and unpack with the same cautions...THREE times on 3 different Kindle Fire 8's, all to no avail. Getting pretty discouraged with the Kindle product for this BT Printer effort. My last resort might be to try to 'hard wire' the Kindle to the POS printer, skipping the BT connection altogether. However, I need to know if anyone has taken this route and could share with me the printer used. Not all POS thermal printers have a 'com' port into which you would plug the cable from the 'micro USB' port on the Kindle, and the 'spec's list on Amazon live a lot to be desired most times... Anyone? Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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