Chapter 1: About the 7156 Printer
Features
The 7156 printer comes with several features and options.
Receipt Station
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Slip Station
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Both Stations
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Thermal printing
Standard pitch (host selectable): 15.2 characters per inch, 44 columns
Compressed pitch (host selectable): 19.0 characters per inch, 56 columns
Resident bar codes
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Code 39
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Code 128
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UPC-A
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UPC-E
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JAN8 (EAN)
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JAN13 (EAN)
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Interleaved 2 of 5
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Codabar
Drop-in paper loading requiring no spindle or threading paper
Paper low indicator
Paper exhaust
Bi-directional, impact printing
Standard pitch (host selectable): 13.9 characters per inch, 66 columns
Compressed pitch (host selectable): 17.1 characters per inch, 80 columns
Printing of forms up to five plies
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Front insertion of forms with forms stop
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Side insertion of forms with override of forms stop
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Automatic and manual insertion of forms
Form alignment sensors and Slip In LED indicator
Horizontal flat-bed slip table with optional extension (standard with MICR check
reader)
Snap-on ribbon cassette
Variety of print modes: double high (receipt station only), double strike (slip station
only), double wide, upside down, and rotated
Two resident character sets:
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PC Code Page 437 (US)
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PC Code Page 850 (Multilingual)
16K RAM for downloaded character sets or bit-mapped graphics (such as logos)
September 1998
7156 Service Guide