Life: Mechanism:
3,000,000 lines
Print head:
100 million characters
(when in the average
of 2 dots/wire per
character.)
Reliability• End of Life is defined as the point
at which the printer reaches the
beginning of the Wearout
Period.
MTBF: 180,000 hours
• Failure is defined as Random Failure
occurring at the time of the Random
Failure Period.
MCBF: 7,000,000 lines
• This is an average failure interval
based on failures relating to wearout
and random failures up to the life of 3
million lines.