Epson LQ-570+ Product Brochure

EPSON

EPSON LQ-570+ Impact Printer

FEATURES BENEFITS

VERSATILE LETTER QUALITY PRINTING THAT’S FAST, SHARP AND QUIET.

Once again, EPSON rewrites the book on performance and productivity with an affordable 24-pin printer for the small business or desktop printing.

The EPSON LQ heard about EPSON products–reliable, versatile, easy-to-use-plus something you won’t hear–it’s whisper quiet!

This printer outclasses the competition with a host of performance features: it’s fast, has the widest range of built-in fonts, and offers multi-path paper handling for single sheets, envelopes, or multipart forms. And, with our optional film ribbon cartridge, it produces ultra Letter Quality results–for the sharpest professional text and graphics available from an impact printer.

Add easy compatibility with popular software applications, plus EPSON’s renowned service and support. So stop getting distracted by noisy printers when there’s work to be done. Let the EPSON LQ-570+ quietly handle your printing needs.

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-570+ is everything you’ve ever

Fast print speed 24-pin high performance printer technology

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Compatibility Ideal for Windows and most software

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Functionality Ultra Letter Quality at 360 dpi for the

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Versatility Provides a wide variety of built-in fonts

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Reliability Backed by the EPSON two-year limited

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Unbeatable EPSON Connection technical support to

• service & support answer your questions.

delivers 337 characters per second in Draft mode and 112 cps in Letter Quality mode.

applications; EPSON ESC/P 2 emulation backwards-compatible with EPSON ESC/P®. Easy connectivity to Macintosh through EPSONTalk™option.

sharpest professional text and graphics available from an impact printer; whisper quiet at 46.5 dB(A).

for layout versatility: 14 easily selectable typefaces, four scalable, switches easily from single sheets to envelopes to labels to continuous multipart forms.

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PRINTER SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATIONS

Printing Method

24-pin, impact dot matrix

Print Direction

Bidirectional with logic seeking in text and graphics mode

Print Speed

Bitmapped fonts

Draft 337 cps (15 cpi)

269 cps (12 cpi) 225 cps (10 cpi)

Letter 112 cps (15 cpi) Quality 90 cps (12 cpi)

75 cps (10 cpi)

Character Matrix

Bitmapped fonts 9 x 22 Draft mode (10 cpi)

31 x 22 Letter Quality mode (10 cpi) 22 x 16 Letter Quality mode (15 cpi) 37 x 22 proportional

Character Sets

96 ASCII characters; 14 international character sets and 1 legal character set; 128 user-defined characters; Extended IBM style graphic characters; 5 code pages

Scalable Fonts

EPSON Roman 8 to 32 points, EPSON San Serif 8 to 32 points EPSON Roman T 8 to 32 points, EPSON San Serif H 8 to 32 points

Resident Bitmapped Fonts (cpi)

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

Column Width

10 cpi 80 12 cpi 96 15 cpi 120 17.16 cpi 137

Physical Dimensions

Height 6.3" Depth 14.5" Width 17.1" Weight 14.8 lb

Print Enhancements

Bitmapped fonts

Double-wide, double-high, condensed, double-strike

Bitmapped & scalable

Superscript, subscript, emphasized, underline, score, outline, shadow, italic, strike-through, double underline

Formatting

32 horizontal tabs; line spacing in 1/6" or 1/8" or programmable (minimum 1/360" increments); skip over perforations in lines; page length in lines or inches

Maximum Graphics Resolution

360 x 360 dpi

Paper Feed Mechanism

Removable push/pull tractor for rear, front and bottom feed; automatic fanfold paper load; automatic single sheet paper stacking; friction feed; top and front automatic single sheet load

Paper Feed Speed

65.2 millisecond per 1/6" line

2.8" per second continuous feed

Sound Level

46.5 dB(A)

Advanced Paper Handling

Micro-adjustment for top-of-form and tear-off mode, paper parking for loading single sheet paper without removing continuous paper. Optional pull tractor, standard capacity cut sheet feeder, and high capacity cut sheet and envelope feeder.

Paper Handling

Single sheets of 5.8" to 10.1" (top loading)

plain/recycled paper 7.2" to 10.1" (front loading) Continuous 4.0" to 10.1" No. 6 envelopes 6.5" x 3.625" No. 10 envelopes 9.5" x 4.125" Labels Continuous sheets Forms Continuous multipart:

original plus three carbonless copies; maximum thickness 0.012"

Input Buffer

8KB

Interface

Centronics Serial and buffered Parallel, Twinax, Coax, LocalTalk Multiprotocol Ethernet Print Servers

Printer Language

EPSON ESC/P2

Power Requirements

120V AC± 10%; 49.5 to 60.5Hz; 120 VA max.

‚ compatible 8-bit Parallel standard; optional

Hardware Features

Control panel selection of fonts, condensed mode, paper source, micro-adjustment, paper feeding, buffer clear, tear-off mode

Reliability/ Life Expectancy

MTBF 4,000 power-on hours (POH)

@ 25% duty

Print head life

Fabric 200 million strokes per wire Film 100 million strokes per wire

Ribbon life

Fabric 2 million characters in LQ mode

at 48 dots/character

Film 0.2 million characters in LQ

mode at 48 LQ dots/character

Product/Accessory Part Numbers

EPSON LQ-570+ impact printer C107001 Std. capacity cut sheet feeder C806371 High capacity cut sheet

and envelope feeder C806381 Pull tractor C800191 Interfaces—Type B

Serial C823051

32KB Serial C823071

Bidirectional Parallel C823452

Multiprotocol Series 2 Ethernet

Print Server C823622 Twinax C823151 Coax C823141 LocalTalk C823121

Ribbons

Fabric (black) 7753 Film (black) 7768

Warranty

Two year limited warranty in the U.S. and Canada

Support—The Epson Connection

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

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