Service manual
Service Manual 1-13
General Information 1
Table 1-7. Functional specifications
Characteristic Specification
Printing process Sequential surface thermal transfer printing (thermal-wax
transfer).
Transfer rolls Wax-impregnated transfer rolls. The printer automatically
senses the transfer roll type by the coding on the leading
edge of the yellow band.
3-Color Transfer Roll features sequential bands of yellow,
cyan, and magenta; 342 prints per roll.
A 4-pass Plain Paper Transfer Roll features sequential bands
of precoat, yellow, magenta and cyan; 214 prints per roll.
Black Transfer Roll features all black panels; 880 prints
per roll.
The printer automatically senses the transfer roll type by the
size of the transfer roll cores.
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: about 30 seconds per print.
ColorCoat transfer roll: about 40 seconds per print.
Print times do not include image processing time by the
image processor which varies due to image complexity.
Minimum printing
margins
Perforated paper:
A- and A4-size: all sides, 5 mm (0.2 ins.).
Non-perforated paper
A- and A4-size: all sides, 5 mm (0.2 ins.) except the bottom,
which is 21 mm (0.8 ins.)