DataMetrics 2000 Series, Operation And Maintenance Manual

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MODEL 2000 PRINTER OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
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Table 2-4. Printer Performance Specifications
Characteristic Description
Fonts
Draft
Letter quality
Pica, Elite, and Micron.
Roman, Sans Serif, Courier, Prestige, Script, OCR-B, and
Bold PS.
Character sets 96 regular and italic ASCII characters
33 international characters (14 countries and Legal set)
158 IBM-PC special characters
38 multilingual characters
Dot configuration
Diameter
Matrix
Pitch
0.2 mm
9 x 24 (draft) and 30 x 24 (letter quality)
Draft: 0.21 (horizontal) x 0.14 mm (vertical)
Letter quality: 0.07 (horizontal) x 0.14 mm (vertical)
Characters per inch (cpi)/
per line (cpl) Pica: 10 cpi/80 cpl
Elite: 12 cpi/96 cpl
Micron: 15 cpi/120 cpl
Compressed: 17 cpi/137 cpl
Elite compressed: 20 cpi/160 cpl
Pica elongated: 5 cpi/40 cpl
Elite elongated: 6 cpi/48 cpl
Micron elongated: 7.5 cpi/60 cpl
Compressed elongated: 8.5 cpi/68 cpl
Elite compressed elongated: 10 cpi/80 cpl
Printing speed {characters
per second (cps)}
Micron
Elite
Pica
250 cps (draft) and 83 cps (letter quality)
200 cps (draft) and 67 cps (letter quality)
167 cps (draft) and 56 cps (letter quality)
Service life
Printhead
Ribbon
200 million strokes for black ribbon in draft mode
3 million characters for black ribbon in draft mode