Specifications

2.5.4 Ink Jet Printers
Ink jet printers provide high-quality color graphics with near-letter-quality
text.
2.5.4.1 LJ250/LJ252 Companion Color Printers
LJ250ILJ252 Companion Color Printers are disposable cartridge, thermal
ink jet printers, available with either serial or parallel interface.
Performance
Printing speed
Print technology
Character spacing
Line spacing
Character sets
Graphics
Character printing attributes
Page printing attributes
Color graphics mode
Aspect
ratio
Text-print speed
Black: near-letter-quality, 167 characters/second
(burst);
90 characters/second (throughput)
Color: near-letter-quality, 55 characters/second
(burst);
20 characters/second (throughput)
Thermal ink jet drop-on demand
Standard: 10/12/18 characters/inch
Double width (DEC mode only): 5/6/9 characters/inch
2, 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 lines/inch
VT100, US ASCII, DEC Technical, ISO Supple-
mental, 14 National Replacement Character Sets,
DEC Supplemental, Roman-8, PC-8, ECMA-94,
IBM-EUROPE, and National Character Sets
DIGITAL and HPIPCL protocols
Color, true descenders, superscript, subscript,
bold, italics,
underline, double underline, overline,
strike-through
Margins, tabs, printhead positioning, autowrap,
unidirectionallbidirectional printing, transparency
mode
Solid colors (180 x
180 dots/inch): black, cyan,
magenta, yellow, red, green, and blue
Half-tone dithered colors (90 x 90 dots/inch, with
90 x 45 dots/inch in DEC mode only): 255 colors,
HLS system or RGB
1:1,2:1, or 2.5:1
Option Specifications 2-93