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Printing technology

Control code/emulation

Paper handling

SmartPark™ settings

Contents

This technical brief provides detailed information on the following topics, related to all EPSON impact

printers:

Functionality

Flexible interfacing

Built-in fonts

Computer-based set-up

Versatility

Functionality—Printing technology

Impact printers are either 9- or 24-pin, which determines the type of printing and the number of multi-part

forms that the printer are capable of printing.

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Ribbon quality

Ribbon cartridge reliability

Total Print Volume vs. MTBF

Off-carriage motor assembly

Reliability

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Nine-pin impact printers — These printers have the sturdiest printhead pins which:

Twenty-four-pin impact printers

— These printers have finer printhead pins which:

Why buy an impact printer? An impact printer has several advantages over any other type of printer:

Low cost — both in purchase price and low cost of ownership

Flexible paper handling — only impact printers can handle multi-part forms and multiple paper paths

that can all have paper loaded and waiting.

Reliability — EPSON impact printers are renowned for their reliability with tireless printheads and

superior quality ribbons.

Hit the paper hard to make impressions through the thickest multi-part forms

Offer the fastest print speeds

Print from High Speed Draft up to Near Letter Quality

Hit the paper less hard to make impressions through most multi-part forms

Offer finer Letter Quality printing

Print from High Speed Draft up to Letter Quality

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The name of an EPSON's impact printer tells you if it is a 9- or a 24-pin printer, and whether it has a narrow

or wide carriage:

FX-980—Nine-pin

narrow carriage

Nine-pin printers all begin with FX, LX, or DFX

Twenty-four pin printers all begin with LQ

Wide carriage printers have 4 number in their names

Narrow carriage printers have 3 numbers in their names

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