Epson service manual Features, DFX-8500 Exterior View

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

1.1 FEATURES

The DFX-8500 is a 18-pin, serial, dot matrix printer with a maximum speed of 1120 characters per second (cps). It is designed for business use and provides high-speed, high-volume printing and continuous-sheet handling. The main features of the printer are:

‰￿ Maximum printing speeds:

„￿ 1120 cps (high-speed draft mode) „￿ 840 cps (draft mode)

„￿ 210 cps (NLQ mode) at 10 cpi ‰￿ Advanced paper handling:

„￿ 10 inches per second (ips) paper feeding „￿ Paper jam detection

„￿ Paper width detection

„￿ Front and rear two-way push tractors „￿ Optional pull tractor

„￿ Automatic paper back-out and loading from another paper path and paper park „￿ Automatic platen gap adjustment for paper thickness

„￿ Automatic tear off „￿ Paper memory function

„￿ Automatic paper path changing

„￿ Auto cut mode enables the optional perforation cutter to cut the paper at the perforation. ‰￿ Bi-directional parallel interface (IEEE-1284 nibble) and RS-232C serial interface standard ‰￿ EPSON ESC/P (upper compatible with DFX-8000) and IBM/LEXMARK 2381Plus emulation ‰￿ 35 character tables in the NLSP (National Language Support) version and 11 character tables in

the standard version

‰￿ 2 NLQ and 1 draft bit-map type faces and 8 barcode fonts are supported. ‰￿ Optional paper cutter and perforation cutter

‰￿ Upgraded data handling „￿ 128 KB input buffer

„￿ Automatic interface selection „￿ Type-B optional I/F cards

The figure below shows the DFX-8500.

Figure 1-1. DFX-8500 Exterior View

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