High Speed Form Printing from Lake Erie Systems

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Models & Options
Ethernet Interface for 8920 / 8930

The 8900 Series is designed for heavy-duty, reliable operation and is ideal for shared resource use on a LAN, multiuser UNIX® computer, engineering workstation, minicomputer, or mainframe.

Model 8920

• Designed for businesses that need heavy duty continuous form printing, up to 9 parts.
• Heavy Duty 18,000 pages per month printing volume
  
  Model 8930
  
• Versatile printing on continuous forms or cut sheet paper.
• Four-color process ribbon mixable for seven colors.

  Intelligent Forms Processing Technology.

• Z-Axis Control ^™ provides automatic document thickness sensing and adjustment.
• Page Finder ^™ automatically detects the top, left, and right edge of each form that is loaded. Printing always begins at the same position, relative to the edges of the document.
• Metal Tear Bar for clean and quick form removal.
  
  
• Handling Tough Jobs.
  
• Designed for heavy-duty operation.
• Multiuser environments.
• Recommended workload: 18,000 pages per month.

  Typical Applications
  

• Shared-resource environments
• Office printing
• Business reports, spreadsheets, color charts
• Multipart forms

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  Printing

  Technology:Serial impact dot matrix

• Print Head:18-pin

• Speeds (cps):

  	10 cpi	12 cpi	15 cpi
  DP	400	480	600
  Text	240
  LQ	100

  Fonts: Courier, Gothic Options: Presentor, Prestige Elite, OCR-A, OCR-B

• Bar Codes:

• Options: Code 3 of 9, Interleaved 2 of 5, POSTNET

  Character Sets:

• US ASCII 96 character set, IBM PC1, IBM PC2, Nordic PC, ISO 8859/1 Multinational, IBM Multinational

  Print Modes:

• Normal, bold, emphasized (shadow), expanded, compressed, underline, italics (Epson only)

  LF Interval:

• <27 msec

  Character Spacing:

• 5, 6, 7.5, 8.3, 8.6, 10, 12, 15, 16.7, 17.1 cpi

  Line Spacing:

• 3, 4, 6, and 8 lpi

  Print Line:

• 13.6 in.

  Dot Graphics (dpi):

• 240H x 216V

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  Flexible Paper Handling

  Paper Handling:
  

• Zero-inch tear-off, automatic top-of-form alignment, Z-Axis control (auto forms thickness adjustment), Page Finder paper edge detection, paper parking

  Paper Drive:

• 5-pin push tractors

  Paper Dimensions:

• Continuous forms:
          3" to 15" W x 57" L maximum
• Cut sheets:
          3" to 14" W x 4.5" L minimum (8930)

  Number of Copies:

• 6-part copies in standard mode
• 9-part copies in double strike mode

  Maximum Forms Thickness:

• 0.032"

  Paper Slew:

• 16 ips

  Print Control

  Formats:
  

• 10 user-defined forms Emulations
• TI 880, TI 855 (Qume/Epson), IBM^® Proprinter, Epson^® FX, Epson JX
• 30 Character ABM / Answerback Memory feature standard under TI 880 emulation

  Options:

• DEC LA120 with 30 character ABM / Answerback Memory feature

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  Interfaces and Connectivity
• CENTRONICS^® parallel and EIA RS-232 serial

  Input Buffer:

• 32K

  Options:

• Current loop, RS-423, RS-422, Ethernet 10BT

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  Physical Size (HxWxD):
  
• 11.1 x 25.4 x 13 in. (282 x 645 x 330 mm)

  Weight:

• 52 lbs (23.6 kg)

  Acoustics:

• 61 dBa

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  Operating Environment

  Voltage:

• 100-132, 200-264 VAC; 47-63 Hz, single phase

  Power Input:

• 225 watts maximum (768 BTU/hour)

  Storage Temperature:

• -22° to 150° F (-30° to 66° C)

  Operating Temperature:

• 41° to 104° F (5° to 40° C)

  Storage Humidity:
  

• 5% to 95% (no condensation)

  Operating Humidity:

• 10% to 90% (no condensation)

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  Reliability

  MTBF:

• 9,000 hours @ 100% duty cycle

  Workload:

• 18,000 pages per month

  MTTR:

• 20 minutes

  Print Head Life:

• 300 million draft characters

  Ribbon Life:

• Black:
          13 million draft characters, Use only genuine factory authorized ribbons for best results. Reorder number 2551152-0011
• Color:
          1.5 million draft characters per band (8920C, 8930): Reorder number 2551152-0014

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  Ribbon Type:

• Continuous loop cartridge ribbons
• Black:
          33 yards, reorder number: 2551152-0011
• Color:
          30 yards (8920C, 8930), reorder number: 2551152-0014

  Ribbon Warning: Unapproved ribbons and ribbon cartridges not authorized by Texas Instruments
  may cause premature damage to your printhead and may void the warranty on the printer or printhead.

  Warranty 1 year return to depot

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  Options
• Printer stand
• Stand mounted basket
• Printer mounted basket
• Acoustic cover
• Top feed tray (8930)
• Bar code/OCR font
• Presentor and Prestige Elite font
• DEC LA120 Emulation Kit
• Ethernet 10BT
• Current loop