Printer Specifications; Printing; Print Method; Interfaces - Epson TM-J7100 Developer's Manual

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Printer Specifications

Printing

Print method

Serial inkjet dot matrix
❏ TM-J7000: single-color, 64 nozzles × 1 line
❏ TM-J7100: two-color, 64 nozzles × 2 lines
❏ Density: 180 × 180 dpi

Interfaces

❏ Standard: RS-232 and IEEE 1284 parallel
❏ Options: RS-485, all UB boards, except the UB-P02, 10Base-T

Reliability

❏ Life
• Mechanism: Receipt: 15,000,000 lines, Slip: 5,000,000 lines
• Print head: 1600 million shots/nozzle (Shots are defined as the numbers of pulses
energized for the print head.)
• Autocutter: 1,500,000 cuts (End of life: the printer is defined to have reached the end of
its life when it reaches the beginning of the Wearout Period.)
• MICR reader mechanism (factory-installed option): 240,000 passes (when used with US
personal checks)
• Endorsement mechanism: 240,000 passes (when used with US personal checks)
❏ MTBF: 180,000 hours (Failure is defined as a random failure occurring during the random
failure period.)
❏ MCBF: 50,000,000 lines (This is an average failure interval based on failures relating to
wearout and random failures up to the life of 20,000,000 lines (receipt: 15,000,000 lines plus
slip: 5,000,000 lines)

Buffer Sizes

❏ Receive: 4KB
❏ User-defined (both for user-defined characters and downloaded bit images): 12KB
❏ NV graphics and user NV memory: 384KB
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TM-J7000/TM-J7100 Developer's Guide
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