My 610 works fine using a USB cable connection. The 610 was also designed to run with a Bluetooth dongle (assuming your pc is also Bluetooth compatible) and Canon sell a dongle for the job which connects to the printer vie the USB socket at front of printer.
Bluetooth works for normal A4/letter printing. Does not work when scanning at all and when printing photos from the pc is VERY slow - like 4 minutes for a 6"x4" print using default settinge (print time via cable is c.30 seconds so the printer is ok). Bluetooth fine for cellphone, keyboard and mouse connections and have even disabled those functions to see if photos printed quicker - nope.
I have removed and reinstalled the softward and bluetooth connection. Two things happen:
1. Print first via USB cable - fine c.30 seconds. Then switch to Bluetooth and back to c.4 minutes. Try switching back to USB cable and it is still trying to print via Bluetooth and will no longer recognise the USB cable.
2. Reboot the computer having first made sure the default printer is in fact USB cable connection and still only looks for the Bluetooth connection. Only way I could get the printer to recognise the USB cable connection again was to remove the Bluetooth setup in printer properties so there is no longer any connection for Bluetooth.
3. All 6 x 4 Bluetooth prints take c.4 minutes but are otherwise fine.
My thoughts:
A. Data transmission between PC and printer via Bluetooth is just dreadfully slow - If this the case ?
B. Bluetooth dongle in printer no good.
C. Canon 610 not really designed to work in all its modes via Bluetooth i.e. newish tech and Canon not got their act together.
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