Instruction manual

A758 Owner’s Guide Chapter 5: Techical Spcifications
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Allowable Duty Cycle (measured over one minute of continuous printing)
The impact printhead can continuously print the following average number of
characters over a one minute period.
Ambient Temperature in degrees: 5C 20C 35C 50C
11.5 Dots/Char. avg.: 7200CH 6000CH 4800CH 3600CH
15.0 Dots/Char. avg.: 5700CH 4800CH 3900CH 3000CH
19.0 Dots/Char. avg.: 4200CH 3600CH 3000CH 2400CH
No one print wire may exceed 18% of the dots printed.
Ribbon Life
The snap-on purple and black ink ribbon cassettes are available in 3 and 5 million
character cartridge lives.
Receipt Printing
Receipt Format, 80mm Paper Width
Print line width: 576 dots @ 8 dots/mm centered on 80 mm.
Standard Font Compressed Font
Character Cell
13 x 24 dots 10 x 24 dots
Character Per Line
44 @ 15.6 CPI 56 @ 20.3 CPI
Nominal Margins
4.25 mm (.167 inch) 5.00 mm (.200 inch)
Minimum Margins
2.00 mm (.079 inch) 2.50 mm (.098 inch)
Print line height: 24 dots @ 8 dots/mm + Extra Dot Rows between lines
0 EDR: 3.00 mm (.118 inch)
±
3% = 8.47 LPI
1 EDR: 3.12 mm (.123 inch)
±
3% = 8.13 LPI
2 EDR: 3.25 mm (.128 inch)
±
3% = 7.81 LPI
3 EDR (Standard): 3.37 mm (.133 inch)
±
3% = 7.52 LPI
4 EDR: 3.50 mm (.138 inch)
±
3% = 7.25 LPI
5 EDR: 3.62 mm (.143 inch)
±
3% = 7.00 LPI
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10 EDR: 4.25 mm (.167 inch)
±
3% = 5.98 LPI
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N EDR: (3 + N/8) mm
±
3%
Top margin to manual tearoff: (non-Knife) 9.75 mm (.384 inch) minimum.
Top margin to knife cut: 17.80 mm (.700 inch) minimum.