Printing And Paper Specifications - Epson TM-U220 Reference Manual

1.5 Printing and paper Specifications

Printing method:
Head wire
configuration:
Printing direction:
Print speed: *1
Paper width:
Printing width:
Characters per line:
Character spacing:
Paper feed speed:
Line spacing (default): 4.23 mm {1/6"}, programmable by control commands.
Number of characters: 95 alphanumeric, 48 international characters,
Character structure:
*1 This printer adjusts print speed when it prints graphic data, etc.
1-6 General Information
Serial impact dot matrix
9-pin serial configuration
Bidirectional printing (logic seeking)
Approximately 4.7 lps (printing 40 columns per line at 16 cpi)
Approximately 6.0 lps (printing 30 columns per line at 16 cpi, with 1/8"
line spacing)
(except data transmission and processing time)
76 mm / 69.5 mm / 57.5 mm {3.00"/2.74"/2.26"}
63.4 mm / 57 mm / 47.5 mm {2.50" / 2.24" / 1.87"}
Dot positions depend on DIP switch setting. See the table "Dot width
of Printable area" (page 1-7) for details.
35 (font A), 40 (font B, default) (When using 76mm width paper)
ANK: 3 half dots (default) or 2 half dots.
Kanji: 2 half dots (default) or 0 half dots.
Thai: 3 half dots (default) or 2 half dots.
The spacing of ANK and Thai characters is selectable by DIP SW2-1.
The spacing of Kanji characters is selectable by ESC/POS command.
30 lps
Extended graphics: 128 × 12 pages. (15 tables for Japanese model)
Multilingual character model supports printing with one of the
following character sets:
• Japanese Kanji (Two-pass printing font) (JIS X0208-1990): 6879
• Simplified Chinese (Two-pass printing font) (GB18030-2000): 28553
• Traditional Chinese (Two-pass printing font) (Big 5): 13494
• Korean Kanji (Two-pass printing font) (KS C5601 type): 8366
• Thai (Three-pass printing font): 128 characters 7 pages
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Font A: 9 9
×
Font B: 7 9
×
Kanji: 16 16
(Font B is the default)
(133 character types)
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