Chapter 1 Product Description

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1.7 Main Components
EPSON Stylus Color 600 has following major units. Also, it is one of the major characteristics that the
bottom of the Printer mechanism plays the role as lower case at the same time.
Upper case
Printer Mechanism
C200 MAIN Board (Main control circuit board)
C206 PSB/PSE Board (Power supply circuit board)
C206 PNL Board (Control panel circuit board)

1.7.1 Printer Mechanism

Unlike EPSON’s previous ink jet printer mechanisms, one of the major characteristics of EPSON Stylus
Color 600 is that the printer has no Engage/Disengage mechanism in order to change over pump
mechanism and paper feeding mechanism. Instead, however, this change-over control is done by the
distinction between turning direction of PF motor and position of present carriage unit. Also, another
major characteristic is that print head is changed to be one unit combined with black and CMY. Nozzle
configuration for black is 64 nozzles (the nozzle pitch of each column is 90dpi and between two
consecutive nozzles in number (e.g. #1 and #2) is 180dpi). On the other hand, CMY nozzle has 32
nozzles (90dpi) for each color. Following figure shows exterior of mechanism.
CR Motor
PF Motor
Carriage
Control Panel
Hopper
(Exit paper tray)
*ASF is not shown in the above figure.
Figure 1-12. Exterior view of the Printer Mechanism