Yes, "draft mode" increases the speed somewhat, but if you need to punch out a nice-looking manuscript 5 pps+, then I guess you have to upload to desktop and work from there. Though it would seem that even MS Windows IR print drivers on my Dell laptop work at 9600 bps or some other speed equally dinosaur.BTW, there's a new program to help facilitate file transfers--IrDAsh 2.0. It's in beta at bitbank software: http://hive.speedhost.com
You can blast a file to a laptop and vice versa much faster than ActiveSync.