- Micronics Co.. Ltd. Opration Manual printer LS-5 EX, LS-5 TT

1.3 PRINTER FEATURES

The Star LS-5 Series Laser Printer is a highly compact, fast and high-

resolution model, equally well-suited to home or office use. Its small

footprintconsumes significantlylessspace than many ofother laserprinters,

making it admirably suited for use in places where space is at a premium.

Standar@output resolution is 300 x 300 dots per inch. This can be boosted

to 300 x 600 dots per inch, giving the printer a noticeable edge over the

competition in clearly and sharpness of output.

The printing process used is that of’laser beam scanning, described in the

previous section.

The printer’s engine israted for fivepagesperminutes— morethan adequate

for home use. and fine for many commercial environments. Actual throughp-

ut, however, depends on several other factors as well, most important y the

complexity of documents that are transmitted to the printer for printing.

Paper feeding is from one of two sources, a slide-in cassette that fits

compactly into the deck at the base of the printer chassis. and a front-loading

tray. The cassette holds 250 sheets as standard and there is also an additional

feeder unit and cassette available as an option that will increase cassette-

feeding capacity to 500 sheets. The front paper tray can hold 50 sheets. A

range of paper sizes (Letter, A4, Executive. B5, Legal), and envelope sizes

— COM- 10,Monarch, DL and C5 are available. Printing materials include

plain paper, envelopes, labels and transparency films.

The printer is easily setup and controlled by means of the control panel and

LCD display screen.

Connection to host computers is via any one of three ports — parallel,

RS-232C serial or AppleTalk. Two computers connected to dif-ferentports

may freely sharetheprinter. The AppleTalk interface isonly availablefor use

with theLS-5TT or the LS-5EX with its,optionalTrueImage Boardinstalled.

Internally the printer processes data using a fast, high-performance RISC

chip — the 16MHz INTEL 80960SA.

The LS-5EX comes with 1MB of RAM as standard, and the LS-5TT comes

with 2 MB of RAM as standard. This can be expanded to a maximum of 7

MB (LS-5EX) or 8 MB (LS-5TT). which isadvisable ifcomplex documents

are to be processed, or if heavy use of fonts and macros is envisaged.