Printronix P9000 Series Printer User Manual


 
1-1Overview
CHAPTER 1
OVERVIEW
Introduction
The
Printronix
P9012 printer is a quiet, full-featured, multifunction line printer. In addition to
the basic Printronix P-Series printer functions, the P9012 includes correspondence quality
print for near-letter-quality (NLQ) printing requirements, high-speed printing, and
character-by-character
attributes for wide application compatibility.
This chapter presents an overview of the printer:
n Features
n
Optional F
eatures
n
Character F
ormation
n
Line Matrix P
rinting
n P
rint R
ate
n
Plot R
ate
Features
P9012 printer provides the following standard features:
n
P-Series and Serial Matrix emulation protocols
n
P-Series Plot and Bit Image compatible graphics
n
By-Character A
ttributes
D
Selectable pitch
D
Emphasized print
D
Bold print
D
Expanded print
D A
utomatic underline
D A
utomatic overscore
D
Superscript/Subscript printing
n
Selectable F
orms L
ength
n
Electronic V
ertical F
ormatting
D
Standard
Printronix
electronic vertical format unit (EVFU)
D
Direct access vertical format unit (D
VFU, NVFU, CVFU)
D
Serial Matrix compatible vertical formatting
n R
esident Multinational Character Sets