Epson LQ-2080 Product Brochure

EPSON

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EPSON LQ-2080
Impact Printer

FEATURES BENEFITS

THE RUGGED, FAST AND AFFORDABLE
LETTER-QUALITY IMPACT PRINTER
FOR THE BUSY OFFICE.

Let’s face it. Most budget-priced, letter-quality
impact printers leave a lot to be desired. They
too slow, skimp on quality or have too few features.
Enter the EPSON
letter-quality, wide-carriage 24-pin printers ever.

At a speedy 400 cps in high-speed draft mode, the
EPSON LQ-2080 will make quick work of just about
any job you give it, from continuous and multipart
forms to envelopes, labels and invoices. You can also
depend on the EPSON LQ-2080 for years of trouble­free use. Its MTBF rating is an impressive 10,000
power-on-hours (POH) with a print head life rated at
200 million strokes/wire and a ribbon life rated at 8
million characters.

The EPSON LQ-2080 can print up to 5-part
(original + 4) forms. User-selectable front, rear, top
and bottom paper paths let you load a variety of forms
and quickly switch between them. And its zero-tear-off
paper handling saves time and money by eliminating
wasted pre-numbered and standard forms. Together,
these features make the EPSON LQ-2080 an ideal
choice for busy offices with a variety of printing tasks.

Windows

3.51/4.0 printer drivers are standard, as are 8 built-in
bar code fonts. Optional network interface boards let
you easily connect the EPSON LQ-2080 to an Ethernet
network. It’s backed by a two year limited warranty.

Best of all, the EPSON LQ-2080
and versatility comes at a very attractive price, making
it the impact printer that meets your business needs
and fits well within your budget.

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LQ-2080—one of the best values in

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24-pin, wide Sharp, easy-to-read letter quality printing

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carriage printing of both text and numerals.

Up to 400 cps Printing tasks are completed faster than

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print speed comparable 24-pin printers.

(fastest in its class)

MTBF rating of Reliable and trouble-free printing.

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10,000 POH with

200-million
strokes/wire
print head life

Prints up to 5-part Prints most multipart forms with excellent

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(original +4) forms legibility.

Front, Rear, Multiple paper paths allow printing on a

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Top and Bottom variety of paper types without having to reload.

paper paths

Long-life 8 million Ribbons last longer than comparable printers

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character printer saving both time and money.

ribbon

Windows 95, Compatible with most industry standard

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Windows 3.1x, operating systems.

and Windows NT

3.51/4.0 printer
drivers

PRINTER SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATIONS

Printing Method

24-pin, impact dot matrix

Print Direction

Bidirectional with logic seeking

Print Speed

High Speed Draft 400 cps
Draft 300 cps
Letter Quality 100 cps

Print Characteristics

Character sets

14 international; 1 legal

Character code tables

13 tables: Italic, PC437, PC850, PC860, PC861,
PC863, PC865, Abicomp, BRASC II, Roman 8,
ISO Latin 1, PC858, 1508859-15

Bitmap fonts

EPSON Draft 10, 12, 15 cpi
EPSON Roman 10, 12, 15 cpi, proportional
EPSON Sans Serif 10, 12, 15 cpi, proportional
EPSON Courier 10, 12, 15 cpi
EPSON Prestige 10, 12 cpi
EPSON Script 10 cpi; EPSON OCR-B 10 cpi
EPSON Orator 10 cpi; EPSON Orator-S 10 cpi
EPSON Script C Proportional

Scalable fonts

EPSON Roman 8 to 32 points
EPSON Sans Serif 8 to 32 points
EPSON Roman T 8 to 32 points
EPSON Sans Serif H 8 to 32 points

Bar code fonts

EAN-13, EAN-8, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, UPC-E,
Code 39, Code 128, PostNet

Printable Columns

Characters Per Line Character Pitch (CP)

10 cpi 136 10
10 cpi condensed 233 17.1
12 cpi 163 12
12 cpi condensed 272 20
15 cpi 204 15

Paper Handling

Cut sheet size (single sheet or multipart)

Width 3.9-16.5" (100-420mm)
Length Max 16.5" (420mm)

Envelopes-top entry

No. 6, No. 10; 12 to 24 lb

Card

Width 3.9-5.8" (100-148mm)
Length Max 5.8" (148mm)

Continuous paper size (single sheet, multipart or labels)

Width 4.0-16.0" (102-406mm)
Length Max 22.0" (559mm)

Paper thickness

Cut sheet 0.0025-0.0055" (0.065-0.14mm)

Cut sheet multipart forms thickness

0.0047-0.015" (0.12-0.39mm); 12 to 15 lb

Card thickness

0.0087" (0.22mm); 51 lb Top entry

Continuous paper multipart forms thickness

0.0025-0.015"(0.065-0.39mm)

Paper feeding

Friction feed (front/rear);
Push tractor feed (front*/rear);
Push/pull tractor feed (front*/rear);
Pull tractor feed (front*/rear/bottom)

Copies

Original + 4 copies

Paper Handling (cont)

Paper path

Cut sheet Front/rear entry;
Continuous paper Front*/rear/bottom entry

Line spacing

1/6" or programmable by 1/360"

Input data buffer

64KB or 0KB (user selectable)

Interface

Standard Bidirectional parallel interface

(IEEE-P1284 nibble mode supported)

Optional Type B interface

Printer Language

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and IBM 2391+

ESC/P2
(IBM®ProPrinter compatible)

Reliability/Life Expectancy

Mean print volume 10 million lines (except print head)
MTBF 10,000 power-on hours (POH)

@25% duty
Print head life 200 million strokes/wire
Ribbon life 8 million characters

(48 dots/character)

Control Panel

Buttons Operate, Pause, Load/Eject, LF/FF,

Tear Off/Bin, Font, Condensed
Indicators Pause, Paper Out, Micro Adjust,

Tear Off/Bin selection, Pitch

Selection, Font Selection

Sound Level

Approx. 54 dB(A) (ISO 7779 pattern)

Environmental Conditions

Temperature 41º to 95ºF; 5º to 35ºC
Humidity 10 to 80% RH

Power Requirements

Voltage 120V
Frequency 50 to 60Hz
Power Consumption

Approx. 34W (during Draft self test)

Physical Dimensions

Width 25.2" (639mm) Depth 15.4" (410mm)
Length 10.1" (257mm) Weight Approx. 28.7 lb (13kg)

Product/Accessories Part Numbers

EPSON LQ-2080 printer C273001
EPSON LQ-2080 ribbon cartridge

S015086
Push/Pull Tractor Unit C800321
High Capacity Cut Sheet Feeder C806731
Second-Bin Cut Sheet Feeder C806741
Interfaces—Type B

Multiprotocol 10/100 Ethernet Print Server

with AC Adapter C823642

Multiprotocol Series 2 10 Mbps Ethernet

Print Server C823622
Twinax C823151
Coax C823141
LocalTalk C823121
32KB Serial C823071

Warranty

Two year limited in the U.S. and Canada

Support–The Epson Connection

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Pre-Sales Support U.S. and Canada 800-463-7766
Automated Technical Support 800-922-8911
Internet Website http://www.epson.com

*with optional Push/Pull tractor(s)

Epson America, Inc.

20770 Madrona Ave., Torrance, CA 90503

Epson Canada, Ltd.

550 McNicoll, Willowdale, Ontario M2H 2E1

Epson Latin America, Inc.

6303 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami, FL 33126 1-305-265-0092

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Printed on recycled paper