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Dot Matrix Specification Comparison Chart
    700 1000 1150 1250 3700 3800 6400 6600
Printing technology 24-wire dot matrix, impact type

Color printing Optional user installable option    

   
Standard      

         
Resolution Letter quality 360 x 180 dots/inch

Report quality 180 x 180 dots/inch

Draft quality 120 x 180 dots/inch

High-Draft 90 x 180 dots/inch

   
24-pin graphics 360 x 360 dots/inch

Printing speed
Letter quality
Characters / second (12 cpi) 72 72 72 72 120 120 168 216
  Characters / second (10 cpi) 60 60 60 60 100 100 140 180
Report quality Characters / second (12 cpi) 144 144 144 144 240 240 336 432
  Characters / second (10 cpi) 120 120 120 120 200 200 280 360
Draft quality Characters / second (12 cpi) 216 216 216 216 360 360 504 648
  Characters / second (10 cpi) 180 180 180 180 300 300 420 540
High-Draft Characters / second (12 cpi) - 240 240 240 400 400 - -
  Characters / second (10 cpi) - 200 200 200 333 333 - -
Performance at ECMA-132 Best quality (Pages per hour) 89 91 91 91 154 154 223 254
  Lowest quality (Pages per hour) 179 190 190 190 299 299 393 412
  Graphic (Pages per hour) ? 15 15 15 90 90 195 216
Line feed speed ms (at 6 lpi) 110 110 110 110 60 60 50 50
Form feed speed inch/second 2 2 2 2 5.6 5.6 9 9
Command set DPL24C+

Emulation Standard IBM Proprinter XL24, Epson LQ2500/2550  

       
  IBM Proprinter XL24E, Epson ESC/P2

     

Resident Fonts Bitmap Courier10, Pica10, Prestige Elite12, Boldface PS

Compress17, Correspondence10, OCR-B, Draft

  High Draft 12  

   
  Dutch, Swiss  

       
Scalable Courier, TimelessPS, Nimbus San (U/I/B)

     

Optional Fonts (EPROM) OCR-A, OCR B, Orator    

       
Character sets

Code pages

437, 850, 851, 852, 855, 860, 863 865, 866, ISO8859-1/ECMA 94 USA, UK, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungary, Slovenia, Mazowia, Polish, Latin7, Latin2, Latin P, ISO-Latin, Kamenicky, Turkish, ELOT928, Cyrillic

Print line Columns at 10cpi 114 110 110 136 80 136 136 136
  Columns at 12 cpi 136 132 132 163 96 163 163 163
max. Paper thickness mm ,23 0,3 0,3 0,3 ,35 ,35 0,4 0,4
max. Paper width 102 mm to xxx mm 330 330 330 420 267 420 420 420
Paper handling Standard Manual paper feeder

  Bi-directional push feed tractor

   
  Bi-directional push feed tractor            

  Bi-directional pull tractor (for bottom feed)        

   
Optional Automatic top cut sheet feeder

 

  second bin for top cut sheet feeder  

 

  Automatic front cut sheet feeder (only 1 bin)            

  Bi-directional 2nd rear tractor (push), Stacker            

Paper park function  

Autom. loading for manual feed          

Automatic Paper edge detection          

   
LCD Display                

Host control Paper Path (HCPP)              

Autom. Paper Thickness Control APTC              

Number of copies including the orginal

3

4

4

4

5

5

8

8

Data buffer size Setup selectable 24 24 24 24 128 128 128 128
Centronics Interface Standard

RS 232C serial Interface Standard            

  Option        

   
  Factory-option    

   
Weight Kg 6,9 6 6 7 7 8,5 25 25
Noise level dB (A) at ECMA-74 48 52 52 52 49 49 55 56
MTBF
(Mean Time Between Failure)
More than x thousand hours 4 6 6 6 8 8 8 8
Head life xxx million strokes each wire 130 200 200 200 300 300 400 400
Ribbon life black over xx million characters (DQ) 4 2 2 2 5 5 18 18
colour over xx million characters per colour (DQ) - - 0,2 0,2 0,3 0,3 - -
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