Service Manual
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Table 1-8 Functional specifications
Characteristic
Specification
Printing process
Sequential dye sublimation transfer printing.
Transfer rolls
Dye-impregnated transfer rolls. The printer automatically
senses the transfer roll type by the combination of lengths
(short or long) on the transfer roll cores.
3-Color Transfer Roll features sequential bands of yellow,
magenta, and cyan; 100 prints per roll.
4-Color Transfer Roll features sequential bands yellow,
magenta, cyan and black; 100 prints per roll.
Black Transfer Roll features all black panels; 200 prints
per roll.
Addressability
300 dots-per-inch (horizontal and vertical).
Engine printing speed
The time it takes from paper loading to paper ejecting a print:
3-Color transfer roll:
on A-size: about 110 seconds per print.
on A4-size: 115 seconds per print
on Letter Extra: 126 seconds per print
4-Color transfer roll:
on A-size: about 145 seconds per print.
on A4-size: 151 seconds per print
on Letter Extra: 167 seconds per print
Black transfer roll:
on A-size: about 64 seconds per print.
on A4-size: 67 seconds per print
on Letter Extra: 74 seconds per print
Print times do not include image processing time by the
image processor, which varies, due to image complexity.
Print times more than double when printing on transparency
film.
Minimum printing
margins (
±
2 mm)
Left and right sides: 3 mm (0.12 in.)
Top side (clamped end): 11.5 mm (0.43 in.)
Bottom edge: 2.5 mm (0.1 in.)
Maximum print area
A-size: 8.27 x 10.4 in.
210 x 265 mm
2480 x 3136 pixels
A4-size: 8.03 x 11.1 in.
204 x 282 mm
2416 x 3344 pixels
Letter Extra: 9.33 x 12.72 in.
237 x 323 mm
2800 x 3816 pixels
