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chapter 8
SPECIFICATIONS
Printing system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Serial Impact Dot-matrix
Printing
speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pica
Elite
High-Speed Draft
2OOcps 225cps
Draft
15Ocps 18Ocps
NLQ
37.5cps 45cps
Print direction
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Bidirectional, logic-seeking
Unidirectional, logic-seeking
(selectable)
Print head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 9pins
Life: 100 million characters
Line spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
l/6, l/8, n/72, n/216 inches
Characters
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96
International 16 sets (*)
IBM special 111
IBM block graphic
50
IBM code page 6 sets (**)
Download 255
* USA, France, Germany, England, Denmark I, Sweden, Italy, Spain I,
Japan, Norway, Denmark II, Spain II, Latin America, Korea, Irish,
Legal
** #/437 (USA), #850 (Multi-Lingual), #860 (Portuguese), #86l (Ice-
landic), #863 (Canadian French), #865 (Nordic)
Number of columns
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Pica
10
Elite
12
Condensed pica
17.1
Condensed elite
20
Proportional
80
96
137
160
Variable
115