Gemini User’s Manual

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

The following table provides a summary of the technical specs for the Gemini-lox and the Gemini-15X. If you understand all of it,

.* great! If you don’t, that’s okay, too. Either way, by the time you finish reading this manual, you should know more than enough to use your printer to its full potential.

Note: The technical specifications of the Gemini printers are subject to change without notice.

Printer:

Print head:

Print speed:

Print buffer:

Character matrix:

Serial

impact

dot

matrix

 

 

-.

 

 

 

9 wire

(user

replaceable)

 

 

 

120 CPS

(at

10 CPI)

 

 

-

bidirectional

logic

seeking.

Graphics

mode:

unidirectional

 

 

 

 

 

816 bytes

(expandable

up

to 4K or 8K)

-

9 x 9 standard with true descenders

18 x 9 emphasized

18 x 18 double strike

6 x 6 block graphics

60 x 72 low-resolution bit-image graphics

120 x 144 high-resolution bit-image graphics

240 x 144 ultra-high-resolution bit-image graphics

Character sets:

96

standard ASCII

characters

 

 

96

italic characters

 

 

 

64

special

characters

 

 

32

block

graphic

 

characters

 

 

96

Downloadable

 

characters

(programmable)

 

88

International

characters

(selectable)

Character fonts:

Special features:

Normal

(10 CPI)

 

 

 

 

Elite

(12 CPI)

 

 

‘rl

-

Condensed

(17 CPI)

 

 

Emphasized

 

 

 

 

Double

strike

 

 

 

 

Enlarged

(5, 6, 8.5

CPI)

 

 

Super/subscripts

 

 

 

-

Italic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self-Test

 

 

 

 

-

Continuous

underline

 

 

 

Backspace

 

 

 

 

 

Vertical,

horizontal

programmable

tabs

-

Left and right margin set

 

 

 

7 or 8-bit selectable interface

 

 

Bit

image

column

scan

 

 

Perforation

skip

 

 

 

Downloadable

characters (programmable)

 

Macro

instruction

 

 

 

10

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