EPC1200 SERIES OPERATION MANUAL
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The EPC1200 is a high performance thermal panel printer series. Its compact and functional
design covers many professional uses (as in supermarkets, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, and so on.) It
is capable of printing text, graphics, logo and barcodes. It can be used in laboratories, industrial and
professional environments.
The main features of the EPC1200 Series are:
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Simple installation and easy maintenance.
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Low noise thermal printing.
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Paper width: 58 mm.
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High reliability: 100 million pulses. Abrasion resistance: 50 Km.
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Power supply, two options:
5VDC
or
12-24VDC
, depending on the interface.
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No-paper
sensor.
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Near-to-end paper sensor (only on the 12-24VDC models)
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Up to 45 mm paper roll diameter.
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High speed printing up to
90mm/s
(EPC1250 prints up to 50mm/s).
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Printing resolution: 8 dots/mm (203 dpi).
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Passive paper cut.
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Interface: - Option 1: IEEE 1284
parallel and serial
RS232C data input interface
on-board (up to 115200bps).
- Option 2: Universal Serial Bus (
USB
) communications port on-board.
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Two internal character fonts (A font = 12x24 dots. B font = 8x16 dots).
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Scalable font (independent scale in X/Y-axis), up to 64 times.
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Programmable character and line space.
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Bold and reverse character capabilities
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Graphic bitmap printing capabilities.
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Several
format
Bar Code
(EAN13, Code39, Code128 and ITF)
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Control code based on ESC/POS commands (
*
).
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Hexadecimal mode for easy software debugging.
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Automatic paper load.
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Three maintenance counters (On/Off times, Half hours, Meters)
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Operating temperature range (
0ºC to +50ºC
).
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Storage temperature range (
-20ºC to +70ºC
).
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Self test, hexadecimal mode and configuration mode features.
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Logo load capability
, through Windows driver.
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Windows 2000 and XP drivers and demo/configuration program.
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Linux
Driver.
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(*) ESC/POS are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation.
The EPC1200 Printer Series comprises the following models:
EPC1200-5
5VDC, 90mm/s printing speed, serial & parallel interface
EPC1200-12
12-24VDC, 90mm/s printing speed, serial & parallel interface
EPC1200-12-U
12-24VDC, 90mm/s printing speed, USB interface
EPC1250
5VDC, 50mm/s printing speed, serial & parallel interface
This manual is the printer operations’ guide and is intended for the designer’s application. The
following sections contain a detailed description of both hardware and configuration software that allow
obtaining the maximum benefit of the printer capabilities.
1 – INTRODUCTION
