Seiko TM-U590/U590P manual Reference Information, Printing Specifications, Paper

Chapter 4

Reference Information

Printing Specifications

Paper

Printing method:	Serial impact dot matrix
Head wire	9-pin vertical line, 0.353 mm (1/72-inch)
configuration:	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			Characters
structure	Character
		Characters	per second	Characters	Character size
(Horizontal	spacing
		per inch	(carriage	per line	(width×height)
dots × vertical	(half dots)
			moving speed)
dots)
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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