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Looking For Recommendations/Solutions For Mobile Bluetooth Printers

Inherited a cluster of a fleet of tablets and mobile printers that were at some point used for delivery drivers to be able to print a customer receipt while on site. I'm guessing during the pandemic when on site visits were very limited and drivers were no longer needed that these setups got tossed to the side. Suddenly there is a surge of driver hirings and I'm asked to get the tablets and printers assigned properly.

The more I got into trying to set these devices up with the printers the more problems I began to experience. I was able to get enough to work at the time but it's far from a reliable option at this point and I'm looking for anyone that may be in a retail, distribution, manufacturing or logistics type environment and have some sort of solution for this purpose working smoothly. (If printers are capable of that)

The tablets are [Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1s](https://na.panasonic.com/us/computers-tablets-handhelds/tablets/tablets/toughpad-fz-g1) which are the rugged style, have barcode scanners built in and run W10 but are a discontinued model so no longer supported. The printers are also a mobile rugged style by Datamax. [This one.](https://www.barcodesinc.com/datamax-o-neil/rl4.htm) There is a Datamax -> O'Neil -> Seagull -> Honeywell transition that just made finding support for that device a pain in the ass. Ideally I would like to continue using the tablets but find a more reliable mobile bluetooth printing option.

These are very expensive devices that we have a large quantity of so I did everything I could to get this solution working again but it just wasn't reliable from device to device. I was sent a [Honeywell MPD31D](https://www.barcodesinc.com/honeywell/mpd31d.htm) to test but it was even more of a cluster to get working (it never did).

Sorry for the wall of text but any help will be greatly appreciated. I hate printers.

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