Specifications

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1.11 Reliability
1) Life
Mechanism: 7,500,000 lines
Print head: 150 million characters (using an average of 2 dots/wire per character).
(The printing pattern is based on Appendix A,1), Print Duty).
Print color switching: Refer to Appendix A, 1), Print Duty.
Autocutter: 1,000,000 cuts
End of life is defined as the point at which the printer reaches the beginning
of the wearout period. Recommended paper must be used.
2) MTBF 180,000 hours
Failure is defined as a random failure occurring at the time of the random
failure period.
3) MCBF 18,000,000 lines
This is an average failure interval based on failures relating to wearout and
random failures up to the life of 7.5 million lines.