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By: Thomas Rundel - Senior Editor

Panasonic just announced the "JT-H200PR", a highly portable printer which weighs only about 300 g and communicates through the Bluetooth standard, to be released in May 2003.

The dimensions of the printer are only 43 x 88 x 102 mm, and due to the small size the device easily fits in a jacket pocket. It communicates over Bluetooth with PDAs, notebooks and cellphones which supports the Bluetooth printing protocol. In addition to Bluetooth, the printer has a infrared port and a serial port for maintenance.

The thermal sublimation printer prints  up to 70 mm text and graphics per second on 48 mm wide paper rolls. The Lithium-Ion battery pack supports up to 1300 printouts without recharging.