3860/80 User’s Manual
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Chapter 1 Introduction
The 3860 and 3880 are rugged, high duty cycle, serial dot matrix printers designed for a
variety of applications. These printers are an extension of the GENICOM 3800 family of
impact printers.
The 3860 and 3880 produce print output at 600 and 800 characters per second (CPS),
respectively. Both models are available in single or dual paper path configurations. Printing
has been optimized to yield the highest throughput in pages per
hour (PPH) possible with this
class of printer.
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Among the advanced features of this printer are: automatic or manual print head gap
adjustment, remote or local selection of emulations, remote or local selection of paper
paths, automatic loading of a second paper path when the first path is empty, and the
ability to store, for subsequent recall, four user-defined sets of parameters called formats.
Other characteristics are :
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input voltage: automatic switching between 115 or 230 VAC;
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power dissipation: 130 watts maximum;
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hardware interfaces: menu selectable IEEE1284 parallel and RS-232 serial; and,
by adapters: Ethernet;
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Standard emulations: menu-or host-selectable ANSI X3.64, IBMGP, IBM Proprinter
XL, DEC LA-210, Epson FX 286e, and GENICOM 3410;
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Standard fonts: menu-or host-selectable Gothic, Gothic Italic, Micro Gothic, Wide
Gothic, Courier, and Courier Italic, OCR-A, OCR-B, Oversize in Draft or Near Letter
quality, each; in pitches of 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 17.1, 20;
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ANSI Oversized: rotatable, expandable to 18700 points in 10-point increments. See
Oversized Font chapter in
Programmer’s Manual;
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ANSI bar codes: Twenty-three styles, rotatable and scaleable. See Bar Code chapter in
Programmer’s Manual
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In addition, several improvements have been made to these models:
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Improved carriage rail and carriage
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Improved print head
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Improved automatic print gap adjustment
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Ribbon motion detection
NOTE: Complete specifications are in Appendix E.
