DASCOM T2348

High-speed printing - At 10 cpi, print speed ranges from 113 cps for letter quality to 432 cps for high speed draft quality (Catalog says 537cps fastest draft). A 24 pin print head offers high speed with excellent quality.

Software compatibility - Compatible with the IBM Proprinter XL24E and Epson ESC/P2 command sets.

Multiple fonts - The printer has nineteen resident fonts: Ten bitmap fonts - Courier 10, Pica 10, Prestige Elite 12, Boldface PS, OCR-B, OCR-A, Correspondence, Compressed, Draft and High-speed Draft, and nine outline fonts - Timeless, Nimbus Sans and Courier, each in upright, italic and bold.

Large print buffer - 128k bytes are available in total for strong input data and downloading fonts. A large input data buffer allows you to send files to the printer and re- turn quickly to your application.

Simple switching of paper types & Auto tear-off - Parking continuous forms makes it easy to switch between con- tinuous forms and single sheets. Continuous forms are automatically fed up to the tear-off position at the end of each job.

Maintenance free - Periodic cleaning and changing the ribbon cartridge are all that‘s required.

Colour:

Mono.     These machines take a standard black ribbon.

Control:

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

Print Speed:

Print speed up to 448 characters per second.

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

Print Speed at 10 cpi: High Speed Draft 448; Draft 360; LQ 113

Throughput (ECMA 132) 319pages per hour.

Print Resolution:

up to 360 x 360 dots per inch (in ESC/P Emulation only)

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

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

Duty Cycle:

Workload: 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 4.01-16.53 inches, length 2.99-16.53 inches

Processor:

Not stated.

Network:

A 10BaseT version of the printer is available. The printers can also 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.

Unix and Linux will be able to support these printers using their Epson LQ driver.

Power Requirements:

Power Voltage: 220 V - 50/60 Hz.

Power Consumption:

Power Consumption: Printing: 90W, Sleep Mode: max 28W.

Environment:

Temperature: +5°C to +38°C.

Humidity: 30% to 80%.

Acoustics:

Acoustic: 49 dB(A)

These are quite quiet- for a dot matrix printer. Dot matrix printers are inherently quite noisy; their dominant uses are in factory and logistics environment where that is not an issue. Put them in a separate room if noise is a problem.

Dimensions:

Physical Size 120 x 570 x 330mm (H x W x D)

Weight:

Physical Weight: 9.7 kg.

Consumables:

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

Black ribbon

Spares:

Printhead

Ribbon mask

Trailing cable

Carriage belt

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Service:

We provide service in North East England and can arrange service cover elsewhere.

Warranty:

2 year onsite with 3-day business response. Enhancement to 3 year with next-day response is available. (In the US One Year return to depot.)

Options and Accessories:

No Options: this is a basic simple printer.