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Do Extech Printers support communication with Pocket PC 2003 via infrared?

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Do Extech Printers support communication with Pocket PC 2003 via infrared?

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Sometimes baud rate might be the problem with some implementations of Pocket PC 2003 not handling lower rates correctly — or at all. An example will be PPC2003 where the IR defaults to 115k baud which seems to be too fast for many IR printers. The problem is that some printers cannot begin the initial negotiation process at 115k baud. Extech printers are able to communicate via infrared with most devices. Occasional problems are reported when trying to communicate with Dell Axim via IrDa. Our IrDA stack developer (Actisys) and the IrDA protocol documents made it clear that the negotiation is supposed to start from the lowest baud rate (9600) up to whatever both devices support. Compaq had a similar issue after it moved to PocketPC2003. The following website has some helpful information. http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Format.aspx?ReleaseID=R59395 Even though the version specified there is A00 the correct one is A05. The first time you try to go to the download site, it redirects to an

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