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TM-U590 series
Specification
(STANDARD)
1. GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
1.1 Printing Specifications
1) Printing method: Serial impact dot matrix
2) Head wire configuration: 9-pin vertical line, wire pitch 0.353 mm {1/72"}
3) Head wire diameter: 0.29 mm {.01"}
4) Printing direction: Bidirectional, minimum distance printing
5) Printing speed: Refer to Table 1.2.1
6) Characters per line: Refer to Table 1.2.1
7) Characters per inch: Refer to Table 1.2.1
8) Kanji characters print: Unidirectional two-pass printing
1.2 Character Specifications
1) Number of characters: Alphanumeric characters: 95
International characters: 32
Extended graphics: 128 × 10 pages
(including one space page)
The multilingual character model supports printing with one of the
following characters:
➀ Japanese (Two-pass printing font)
JIS (JIS X0208-1990) Level 1, Level 2
➁ Simplified Chinese (Two-pass printing font)
7580 (GB2312)
➂ Traditional Chinese (Two-pass printing font)
13494 (Big 5)
➃ Thai (3-pass printing font)
128 characters × 7 pages (133 character types)
2) Character structure: Font A: 9 × 9 3-dot spacing (in half dot units)
Font B: 7 × 9 2-dot spacing (in half dot units)
Font C: 5 × 9 1-dot spacing (in normal dot units) (*1)
Kanji : 16 × 16 Left 0-dot, Right 2-dot spacing (in half dot units)
Thai:
Font A: 9 × 27 3-dot spacing (in half dot units)
Font B: 7 × 27 2-dot spacing (in half dot units)
Larger spacing can be changed by using ESC SP or FS S.
*1: Font C is supported in all models except the multilingual
model. Font C is automatically selected by the printer itself
when the page mode is selected or when 90° clockwise
rotation is selected in the standard mode.