Portable Receipt Printers are suited for route accounting.

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Designed for beverage and bottling industry, ultra-lightweight printers feature clamshell-style loading system and push-button release for paper door. Printers feature high-capacity rechargeable Li-Ion battery and detectors to monitor temperature, voltage, and paper-out, and are available with built-in Flash and SRAM memory. Devices are in-field programmable for firmware, font, and logo setup and include resident fonts enabling 10-25 char/in.



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Extech Data Systems Announces Versatile Receipt Printers



Ultra-Lightweight Portable Receipt Printer Suitable for Various Applications
Including Route Accounting

Waltham, MA - Extech Data Systems, a leading developer of portable printers for enterprise-wide applications, announces its new portable receipt printers for route accounting, a practice used to reduce the time needed to complete a sale, improve sales force productivity, and create more satisfied customers. With their contemporary design and three wireless options, Extech's printers are available in two-, three-, and four-inch widths and are designed to withstand the rigors commonly associated with the beverage and bottling industry.

Extech's printers are the key component in route accounting for Odwalla (formerly known as Fresh Samantha), the producer and distributor of premium juices. Thanks to features like the high capacity rechargeable lithium ion battery, the busy company is able to complete more receipt prints per charge with less downtime.

Grupo Modelo®, the eighth largest beer maker in the world and owner of the prestigious Corona brand, also employs Extech's portable printing products in their distribution process and route accounting. A clamshell-style loading system and push-button release for the paper door make changing paper rolls in Extech's printers easy and convenient while on the go.

Relevant and historic data for both Odwalla and Grupo Modelo is stored on hand-held computers. This data is read and updated with each visit, and delivery notes and receipts are issued with ease thanks to Extech's printers.

The printers are available with built-in Flash and SRAM memory to manage all features, and built-in detectors monitor temperature, voltage, and paper-out. Multiple communication interfaces and optional integrated Bluetooth(TM) radio are available.

Each of Extech's printers is in-field programmable for firmware, font and logo setup. Print drivers are available for Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP, and print utilities are offered for all CE and Palm-based operating systems. Special features include resident fonts enabling 10 to 25 characters per inch and an optional built-in, ISO standard, 3-track micro magnetic-card-reader and/or smart card reader. The printers come with a 12-month warranty on all parts including print head.

About Extech Data Systems

Extech Data Systems, a division of Extech Instruments, is one of the world's leading developers of portable printers for enterprise-wide applications centered around mobile information and remote transactions. The company designs, develops and markets portable printer products, and sells its products worldwide through a global network of distributors and marketing partners. Extech printers are high speed, innovative, rugged, reliable, and easy to use. With over 17 years experience developing portable printers, Extech Data Systems has the industry knowledge, design expertise, and technological skills needed to meet customer mobile printing needs.

For further information about Extech Data Systems and its products, call 781-890-7440 or visit www.extech.com.

About Grupo Modelo®

Founded in 1925, Grupo Modelo® is the leader in the production, distribution, and sale of beer in Mexico. The company has seven breweries in Mexico, with an installed capacity of 46 million hectoliters of beer per year. At present Grupo Modelo has ten brands, among them Corona Extra®, "the best selling Mexican beer in the world", Modelo Especial®, Victoria®, Pacifico®, and Negra Modelo® as well as other regional brews. It exports five brands to more than 150 countries and is the exclusive importer in Mexico of the beers produced by the US brewer Anheuser-Busch, including Budweiser and Bud Light. To learn more about Grupo Modelo, please visit www.gmodelo.com.

About Odwalla, Inc.

For over twenty years Odwalla, Inc. has been providing consumers with great tasting, nourishing juice, smoothies, nutritional blends, soy shakes and food bars. Odwalla works hard to bring consumers more innovative and exciting flavors, more cutting edge natural nutrition and deeper and better information about their products. To learn more about Odwalla, please visit www.odwalla.com.

Attn. publishers: Please send all sales leads to Tony Revis, General Manager, Extech Data Systems
285 Bear Hill Rd., Waltham, MA 02451 USA; Phone: 781-890-7440; Fax: 781-890-7864
Email: tony.revis@extech.com

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