H-Series Printers; Hd Printers; Zero Tear Pedestal (Ztp) Printers - Printronix P7000 Series Maintenance Manual

Chapter 1
Printronix P7000 Printers

H-Series Printers

H-Series models print the ideogrammic symbols used in China, Hong Kong,
South Korea, and Taiwan. (See Table 2.) These Kanji/Hanzi/Hangul printers
are indicated by the letter H in the model number suffix. (See Figure 1 and
Table 1.) H-Series printers have specially designed platens and unique
shuttle assemblies which are only used in H-Series and HD Series printers.
These assemblies are not interchangeable with any other Printronix printers.
GB
BIG-5, with an additional 3000 Cantonese characters
BIG-5
TCA
DCI (1st and 2nd segments)
DCI (3rd segment)
CNS
KSC 5601

HD Printers

HD (High Definition) printers use a Windows printer driver with the LQ1600K
emulation to print scalable alphabetic characters in high resolution print
quality. Using the same shuttles mechanisms as the P7X08H H-Series
printers, HD models print alphabetic character sets as graphic page images
instead of in linear character streams. For this reason, the speed of HD
printers is measured in inches per minute (ipm) instead of lines per minute
(lpm). (See Table 1 and Figure 1.)

Zero Tear Pedestal (ZTP) Printers

Zero Tear Pedestal (ZTP) printers are models equipped with special
hardware and software that permits them to print small jobs or single sheets
without losing a sheet between print jobs. A ZTP printer automatically
presents the current print line to a tear bar when it finishes printing and
presents the perforation of the last form printed to the tear bar. When it
receives more data from the host computer, the printer pulls the form down to
the print station and resumes printing.
ZTP printers are covered in Appendix E (page 507).
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Table 2. H-Series Character Sets
Character Set Where Used
China
Hong Kong
Taiwan
South Korea