Printronix P9000 Series manual Chapter Overview, Introduction, Features

CHAPTER 1

OVERVIEW

Introduction

The Printronix P9012 printer is a quiet, full-featured, multifunction line printer. In addition to the basic Printronix P-Series printer functions, the P9012 includes correspondence quality print for near-letter-quality (NLQ) printing requirements, high-speed printing, and character-by-character attributes for wide application compatibility.

This chapter presents an overview of the printer:

nFeatures

nOptional Features

nCharacter Formation

nLine Matrix Printing

nPrint Rate

nPlot Rate

Features

P9012 printer provides the following standard features:

nP-Series and Serial Matrix emulation protocols

nP-Series Plot and Bit Image compatible graphics

nBy-Character Attributes D Selectable pitch

D Emphasized print D Bold print

D Expanded print

D Automatic underline D Automatic overscore

D Superscript/Subscript printing

nSelectable Forms Length

nElectronic Vertical Formatting

D Standard Printronix electronic vertical format unit (EVFU) D Direct access vertical format unit (DVFU, NVFU, CVFU) D Serial Matrix compatible vertical formatting

nResident Multinational Character Sets

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