Printer EPSON LQ-310 Dot Matrix - Epson LQ 310 Dot Matrix Printer

Narrow carriage 24-pin SIDM
High 416 CPS print speed at 12CPI
10,000 power on hour MTBF
USB, Serial and Parallel ports

Printing Technology:
Print Method:
Impact dot matrix
Control Panel:
4 switches and 5 LEDs
Print Direction:
Bi-direction with logic seeking
Number of Pins in Head:
24 pins
Control Code:
ESC/P2 and IBM PPDS emulation

Print Speed:
High Speed Draft:
10cpi: 347 cps
12cpi: 416 cps
Draft:
10cpi: 260 cps
12cpi: 312 cps
15cpi: 390 cps
(Condensed) 17cpi: 222 cps
(Condensed) 20cpi: 260 cps
Letter Quality:
10cpi: 86 cps
12cpi: 103 cps
15cpi: 129 cps
(Condensed) 17cpi: 147 cps
(Condensed) 20cpi: 172 cps

Reliability:
MTBF:
Approx. 10,000 POH (25% Duty)
Printhead Life:
Approx. 400 million strokes/wire
Mean Print Volume Between Failure (MVBF):
Approx. 20 million lines (Except print head)

Print Characteristics:
Character Sets:
Italic table, PC437 (US Standard Europe), PC850 (Multilingual), PC860 (Portuguese), PC861 (Icelandic), PC863 (Canadian-French), PC865 (Nordic), Abicomp, BRASCII, Roman 8, ISO Latin 1, PC 858, ISO 8859-15