Epson LQ-590II Impact Printer (12 months Carry-in)

Printing Method Impact dot matrix
Number of Pins in Head 24 pins
Print Direction Bi-direction
Control Code ESC/P2, IBM PPDS
Printer Speed
Ultra Speed Draft 10 cpi 550cps
High Speed Draft 10 / 12 cpi 487 / 584 cps
Draft 10 / 12 cpi 366 / 439 cps
NLQ 10 / 12 cpi 121 / 145 cps
Print Characteristics
Character Table 1 Italic and 12 graphical character tables:
Italic table, PC437 (US, StandardEurope),
PC850 (Multilingual), PC860 (Portuguese),
PC861 (Icelandic), PC865 (Nordic),
PC863 (Canadian-French), Abicomp, BRASCII,
Roman 8, ISO Latin 1, PC858, ISO 8859-15
Bitmap Fonts Draft 10, 12, 15 cpi
Scalable Fonts Epson Roman / Sans Serif / Roman T / Sans Serif H: 10.5pt., 8pt – 32pt. (every 2pt.)
Barcode Fonts EAN-13, EAN-8, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A , UPC-E, Code 39, Code 128, POSTNET
Printable Columns
Pitch 10cpi 80 columns
Paper Handling
Paper Path Manual insertion (Front or Rear in-Top out), Push Tractor (Front or rear in, top out),
Pull tractor (Front, rear or bottom in, top out)
Paper / Media Length Width Thickness
Cut Sheet (Single Sheet) Entry: Front 100 – 364 mm 100 – 257 mm 0.065 – 0.14 mm
(3.9 – 14.3”) (3.9 – 10.1”) (0.0025 – 0.0055”)
Entry: Rear 100 – 364 mm 100 – 257 mm 0.065 – 0.14 mm
(3.9 – 14.3”) (3.9 – 10.1”) (0.0025 – 0.0055”)
Cut Sheet (Multi-part Sheet) Entry: Front 100 – 364 mm 100 – 257 mm 0.12 – 0.46 mm
(3.9 – 14.3”) (3.9 – 10.1”) (0.0047 – 0.018”)
Copies 1 Original + 5 copies
Continuous Paper (Single Sheet / Multi-part)
Entry: Front, Rear, Bottom 101.6 – 558.8 mm 101.6 – 254 mm 0.065 – 0.49 mm
(4.0 – 22.0”) (4.0 – 10.0”) (0.0025 – 0.019”)
Copies Original + 6 copies
Envelope (No.6) Entry: Rear 92mm 165mm 0.16 – 0.52 mm
(3.6”) (6.5”) (0.0063 – 0.0205”)
Envelope (No.10) Entry: Rear 105mm 241mm 0.16 – 0.52 mm
(4.1”) (9.5”) (0.0063 – 0.0205”)
Label (Base Sheet) Entry: Bottom 101.6 – 558.8 mm 101.6 – 254 mm 0.16 – 0.19 mm
(4.0 – 22.0”) (4.0 – 10.0”) (0.0063 – 0.0075”)
Card Entry: Front, Rear 100 – 148 mm 100 – 148 mm 0.22mm
(3.9 – 5.8”) (3.9 – 5.8”) (0.0087”)
Diameter Width Thickness
Roll Paper Entry: Rear 127mm 216mm 0.07 – 0.09 mm
(5”) (8.5”) (0.0028 – 0.035”)
Line Spacing 4.23mm (1/6”) or programmable in increments of 0.0706mm (1/360”)
Acoustic Noise 55dB
Input Data Buffer 128KB
Interface USB 2.0, Bi-directional parallel USB 2.0, Bi-directional parallel
(IEEE-1284 nibble mode supported) (IEEE-1284 nibble mode supported),
Serial, 100base-Tx wired LAN
Ribbon Cartridge Standard Fabric Ribbon Cartridge (Black)
Ribbon Life Approx. 5 million Characters*1
Reliability
Mean Print Volume Between Failure (MVBF) 50 million lines (except print head)
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) 25,000 Power On Hours (POH) (25% Duty)
Print Head Life 400 million strokes / wire
Control Panel 6 switches and 10 LEDs
Environmental Conditions (Operating)
Temperature*2 5 – 35 °C
Humidity*2 10 – 80% RH
Electrical Specification
Rated Voltage AC 220 – 240 V
Rated Frequency 50Hz – 60Hz