Reference Information 4-1

Chapter 4

Reference Information

Printing Specifications

Slip Paper
Printing method: Serial impact dot matrix
Head wire
configuration: 9-pin vertical line, 0.353 mm (1/72-inch)
wire pitch
Head wire diameter: 0.29 mm (.01")
Printing direction: Bidirectional, minimum distance printing
Number of characters: Alphanumeric characters: 95
International characters: 32
Extended graphics: 128 × 10 pages
(including space page)
Character structure: Font A: 9 × 9, 3-dot spacing (in half-dot
units)
Font B: 7 × 9, 2-dot spacing (in half-dot
units)
Larger spacing can be set by using ESC SP.
Character size and printing speed
Character
structure
(Horizontal
dots × vertical
dots)
Character
spacing
(half dots)
Characters
per inch
Characters per
second
(carriage
moving speed)
Characters
per line Character size
(width×height)
9 × 9 3 dots 12.5 233 66 1.6 × 3.1 mm
(.06" × .12")
7 × 9 2 dots 16.7 311 88 1.3 × 3.1 mm
(.05" × .12")
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