Functionally, well... it's a printer so you just install the drivers into your Windows-based PC and then you can either print using the IR port, if available, or just plug in the serial cable and go. Actually, I didn't try this feature because I was more interested in using it with my Pocket PC. After all, I was trying to see if it was a viable solution for my mobile applications.

Drivers for Palm OS-based devices are already included in the driver disk for the printer. In order to use this printer with a Pocket PC, you'll need to get some additional software. I used FieldSoftware's PrintPocket CE. This program allows you to print your Notes, Pocket Word, RTF files, plain TXT files and e-mails using the printer.

Output was clear and crisp as expected from a thermal printer, with just one slight problem. Because A6 paper is narrower compared to A4 paper, you're going to have to use a lot of paper to print your documents. Not a big problem if you're expecting that to happen but you need to be aware that you can only have about 2.5 meters of paper in this thing.

I didn't time the printing speed but on the SiPix website, it's stated as two pages per minute. During my tests, I printed out something like a grocery list so I had very little text to print but I guess two pages per minute is pretty accurate.

On a side note, FieldSoftware also provides an SDK for developers to directly access the printer so that they can print out customized reports, which is great. That is if you're a developer. :)