4-10 Reference Information
Reliability
Slip: Life (when
printing
alphanumeric
characters):
Mechanism: 12,000,000 lines
Print head: 200 million characters
(when printing with
font B)
MICR reader
mechanism (only
when the printer
is used with the
MICR reader):
End of life is
defined to have
reached the end
of its life when it
reaches the
beginning of the
Wearout Period.
240,000 passes
MTBF: 180,000 hours
Failure is defined
as Random
Failure occurring
at the time of the
Random Failure
Period.
MCBF: 29,000,000 lines
This is an average
failure interval
based on failures
relating to
wearout and
random failures
up to the life of 12
million lines.
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