Epson DFX-5000 Dot Matrix Printer, 560 cps [DFX-5000] - Refurbished Why buy an impact printer? An impact printer has several advantages over any other type of printer: Low cost — both in purchase price and low cost of ownership Flexible paper handling — only impact printers can handle multi-part forms and multiple paper paths that can all have paper loaded and waiting. Reliability — EPSON impact printers are renowned for their reliability with tireless printheads and superior quality ribbons. Impact printers are either 9- or 24-pin, which determines the type of printing and the number of multi-part forms that the printer are capable of printing. Nine-pin impact printers — These printers have the sturdiest printhead pins which: Hit the paper hard to make impressions through the thickest multi-part forms Offer the fastest print speeds Print from High Speed Draft up to Near Letter Quality Twenty-four-pin impact printers — These printers have finer printhead pins which: Hit the paper less hard to make impressions through most multi-part forms Offer finer Letter Quality printing Print from High Speed Draft up to Letter Quality The name of an EPSON's impact printer tells you if it is a 9- or a 24-pin printer, and whether it has a narrow or wide carriage: Nine-pin printers all begin with FX, LX, or DFX Twenty-four pin printers all begin with LQ Wide carriage printers have 4 number in their names Narrow carriage printers have 3 numbers in their names DFX-5000 DOT - MATRIX PRINTER Printable area: Continuous paper 4 to 16 inches (101 to 4 0 6 . 4 mm ) left margin 0.51 to 1.22 in right margin 0.51 in ribbon cartridge power cable Paper thickness: Front--up to 0.018 inches (0.46 mm) Rear-up to 0.012 inches (0.30 mm) Printer Specifications Number of copies:With continuous, multi-part paper only: Front-one original plus up to five copies, maximum thickness Printing method: 9-pin Impact dot matrix of 0.018 inches (0.46mm) Rear-one original plus up to Printing speed: three copies, maximum thickness of 0.012 inches (0.30mm)Mechanical Ribbon : Cartridge ribbon, available in black only (#8766). Do not use ribbons for 24-pin printers. Life expectancy (in draft Printing direction: Bidirectional logic seeking for characters, at 14 dot/character text printing. Unidirectional for 15 million characters graphics (can also be switched to bidirectional by using the proper MCBF: For all components excluding software command). print head: 13,500,000 lines Line spacing: 1/6-inch, 1/8-inch, or MTBF: 6000 power-on hours programmable increments of 1/216th of an inch Print head life: 200 million characters at 14 dots per character Printable columns: Dimensions and Height: 14.5 Inches (367mm) Width : 2 6 . 8 inches (680 mm) Depth : 1 5 . 0 inches (382.5) Weight: approx. 65 lbs. (30kg)
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