❏ Printing specifications
Printing method
Print Head
Emulation
Resident fonts
Down load character sets
Graphic printing
Print mode
• Impact dot matrix and bidirectional logic seeking printing
• 24 pins, movable-type (parallel/staggered orientation.)
Estimated life expectancy: 500 million dots/wire
• Hewlett Packard RuggedWriter 480
• Epson LQ-2550
• IBM 2391
• Draft, High quality draft, Speed draft, Super speed draft
• Roman, Sans Serif, Courier, Prestige, Script, OCR-B, OCR-
A, Gothic, Orator, Orator-S
• HP character sets (up to 256 characters (32kB)
downloadable)
• Epson character sets (up to 128 characters downloadable)
• IBM character sets and code pages (32kB download area)
Raster Graphics Printing (HP)
4 Categories: dpi: dot per inch
• 60 dpi (60h X 60v dpi), raster graphic mode
• 90 dpi (90h X 90v dpi), raster graphic mode
• 180 dpi (180h X 180v dpi), raster graphic mode
• 360 dpi (360h X 360v dpi), raster graphic mode
Bit Image Printing (EPSON/IBM)
11 Categories (8 or 24 pin graphics):
• 60 dpi
• 80 dpi — 8-pin only
• 90 dpi
• 120 dp — 8-pin only
• 120 dpi *
• 180 dpi — 24-pin only
• 240 dpi — 8-pin only *
• 360 dpi — 24-pin only *
• 360 dpi — 48-pin only (IBM mode) *
* Horizontally adjacent dots can not be printed.
Character spacings
• 10 cpi Pica print mode
• 12 cpi Elite, Speed draft print mode
• 15 cpi Super speed draft print mode
• 16.7 cpi Condensed print mode
• 17.1 cpi Condensed pica print mode
• 20 cpi Condensed elite print mode
• 24 cpi print mode
• Proportional print mode
• One half proportional print mode
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Appendix A. Specifications
A. Specifications