• Home
• -
• -
• -
• -
• -
• Other Printers

The narrow-carriage LA48N and wide-carriage LA48W are designed for a broad spectrum of applications and are specially optimized for the DEC® environment. There’s support for DEC®ANSI, IBM® ProPrinter® X24e, and Epson® ESC/P2 emulation.

The 24-pin print head produces clear, crisp output of texts and graphics. The printer has nineteen resident fonts and eight resident bar code fonts ensuring fast, high quality text and dependable bar code printing.

The printer offers simple switching of paper types and auto tear-off functionality. Parking continuous forms makes it easy to switch between continuous forms and single sheets. Continuous forms are automatically fed up to the tear-off position at the end of each job.

With a maximum noise level of only 49 dB(A) the LA48N and LA48W are very quiet printers compared with many competitive models.

Colour:

These are mono-only machines.

Control:

Pushbuttons and LEDs in a recess to guard against accidental operation. Power switch on the right front. Platen knob to assist manual feed.

Print Speed:

Print speed up to 400 characters per second.

As usual with dot-matrix printers there is a substantial trade-off between speed, print quality and resolution.

Print Speed 10 cpi: High Speed Draft 400

Throughput (ECMA 132) 319pages per hour.

Print Resolution:

up to 360 x 360 dots per inch

Character Density: 10, 12, 15, 17.1, 18, 20 cpi.

Line Density: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 lpi.

Duty Cycle:

Workload: Up to 8,000 pages per month.

Printhead Life: 400 million strokes.

Consumables: Ribbon 4 million characters.

MTBF: 20,000 hours @ 25% duty cycle.

Standard Paper Handling:

Standard Paper Handling: Auto tear; manual continuous/cut sheet switch; manual paper thickness adjustment.

Number of Copies: Orginal + 4 (5-part forms).

Paper Type: Continuous forms and Cut forms.

Paper Size : Cut sheet: width 4.01-10.51 inches, length 2.99-14.33 inches.

Duplex:

There don't seem to be any duplex dot matrix machines.

Interface:

(model variants) Parallel/USB; Parallel/Serial RS232; All 128K input

External Ethernet 10/100baseT

Network:

Only a few dot matrix printers are available with built-in Ethernet however they can use parallel or USB print servers.

Print Languages:

Basic ASCII teletype behaviour

Standard Emulation:DEC ANSI PPL2, IBM® Proprinter, Epson® LQ (ESC P/2).

Fonts:

Fonts: Bitmap fonts: Courier 10, Prestige Elite 12, Boldface PS, Compressed Draft 12, High-speed draft 12, OCR-B 10,OCR-A 10, Correspondence 10, PCIA 10, Scalable Fonts: Courier, Nimbus Sans®, Timeless (Normal, Bold, Italic), 8barcodes

System Compatability:

Drivers are provided for:Windows 9x/ME, 2000, 2003 Server, XP, Vista

Power Requirements:

Power Voltage: 120 V - 50/60 Hz.

Power Consumption:

Power Consumption: Printing: 90W, Sleep Mode: max 10W (LA48N)

Environment:

Temperature: +5°C to +38°C.

Humidity: 30% to 80%.

Acoustics:

Acoustic: 49dB(A)

Dot matrix printer are inherently quite noisy; their dominant uses are in factory and logitics environment where that is not an issue. Put them in a separate room if nise is a problem.

Dimensions:

Physical Size 120x415x330mm (Approx. 4.72 X 16.33 X 12.99 inches) (H x W x D)

Weight:

Physical Weight: 7.3 Kg (16 lbs.).

Consumables:

The only consumeable is a ribbon with a typical life of 4 million characters.

Spares:

Printhead

Ribbon mask

Trailing cable

light

dark

Warranty:

One Year return to depot

Options and Accessories:

No Options: this is a basic simple printer.

Copyright G & J Huskinson & MindMachine Associates Ltd 2013, 2015. Some pictures derived from DASCOM User and Service guides. These technical pages do not constitute an offer for sale; just our knowledge at the time of writing. See the catalog. Sales pages on this Web site use cookies to store user information. We also use Google Analytics to track site usage patterns.