Technical Brief

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Versatility—Flexible interfacing
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Versatility—Built-in fonts
Each EPSON impact printer includes a variety of built-in fonts.
Most EPSON impact printers offer both standard bidirectional parallel and serial interfaces which make the
printers compatible with virtually any Windows system environment.
Bundled Microsoft Windows
®
3.1x, Windows NT 3.51/4.0, Windows 95 and Windows 98 drivers
guarantees ease of use right out of the box.
For optional connectivity, most EPSON impact printers offer EPSON Type B interface slots that allow you to add:
When an optional interface is added, EPSON impact printers automatic interface switching feature will
automatically switch to the interface receiving data.
32KB Serial
Serial
Coax
Twinax
Multiprotocol Series 2 & 100/
10Base-TX Ethernet Print Server
LocalTalk Interface board
Description
RS-232C serial port
Standard serial port
IBM
®
mainframe connection
IBM minicomputer connection
Direct Ethernet/ EtherTalk
network connection
AppleTalk connection
Interface card Compatibility
PC/Macintosh
PC/Macintosh
PC
PC
PC/Macintosh
Macintosh
DOS applications will take advantage of all of the built-in fonts that are available on a printer. EPSON
impact printers offers these types of built-in fonts:
Windows applications will overide all built-in fonts in favor of the Windows fonts resident on your
computer.
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Bitmap fonts—available on all EPSON impact printers
Proportionally-spaced scalable fonts—selectable in 2-point increments,
available on EPSON 24-pin impact printers
Barcode fonts—available on most EPSON impact printers.
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Barcode fonts are printed
unidirectionally for accuracy
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Functionality—SmartPark™ settings
EPSON SmartPark settings, which help you save paper and trouble, and precisely line up documents, include
automatic tear-off, paper parking, and microfeed adjustments.
Automatic tear-off
Can be automatic or activated by a button on the control panel.
After a document is printed, the printer will automatically advance the paper to the tear-off position.
When the paper is torn off, or when another document is printed, paper is automatically retracted to the
top-of-form position.
Paper parking
Supports loading of paper from most paper paths, by pressing a button on the control panel.
Paper from one path is backed out and "parked," while paper from the other path is loaded into printing
position
Microfeed adjustments
Can set a top-of-form setting within 1/180 of an inch, to precisely line-up printing on pre-printed forms.
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