The Texas Instruments 830 model (SKU: 10PR03D00 - P/N: 2562926-0002) features-rich additions to the TI family of personal printers. The combination of three print speeds, versatile paper handling capabilities, and easy to use operator control panel satisfies a wide range of personal workstation printing needs.

Printing Capabilities

Print speeds and character matrix: - HSD 300 cps 7 x 7 - UTL 250 cps 9 x 7 - NLQ 63 cps 17 x 13 Characters per inch (cpi) and characters per line (max. cpl) spacing: - CPI :  10  12   17   20 - Max CPL :   80  96  137  160 Line spacing: 1/6, 1/8, n/72, n/144, n/216 inch Print attributes: Italics, emphasized, enhanced, underline, subscripts and superscripts, double high and double wide, and overscore.

Font Handling

Resident typestyles: - Courier, Sans Serif, and Proportional in NLQ mode - Gothic in UTL and HSD modes

Character Sets

Full ASCII 96 character set (U.S.) 14 international character sets: - French, German, British, Danish I, Swedish, Italian, Spanish I - Japanese, Norwegian, Danish II, Spanish II - Latin America, French Canadian, Dutch User-defined downloadable characters (Proprinter mode only) IBM 256 character sets I, II, and III

Graphics

Raster graphics Horizontal and vertical graphics resolution in dots per inch (dpi) - 60[H] X 72[V] - minimum - 240[H] X 216[V] - maximum

Printhead

User-replaceable, 9-pin, stored-energy printhead Head dot size: 0.34 mm diameter 200M average characters before failure

Ribbon

Self-inking ribbon cartridge 3 million character ribbon life

Paper Handling

Standard friction feed and push-tractor feed Optional pull-tractor for use with bottom feed and for push-pull operation Top, rear, and bottom feed paper paths Paper parking Maximum of 24 pound paper weight Original plus four copies (0.014 inch maximum thickness) Slew rate: 4.5 inches per second (ips) Forms tear-off feature to reduce forms waste Optional cut sheet feeder, expandable to fit both the 830 and the 835

Interfaces

Centronics parallel port standard Optional user-installable RS232-C serial board: - with 300 to 19.2K baud rates and 7 or 8 bits - with ready-busy or XON/ XOFF (DC1/DC3) protocols

Emulations

Co-resident TI 855 DP/865 DP, TI 855 WP/865 WP, and IBM Proprinter II/XL

Memory

Standard 23K-byte buffer

Operator Controls and Indicators

Power switch/indicator Online/offline (SEL) button/ indicator Paper-out indicator (ALARM) Print quality selection for HSD, UTL, and NLQ modes Character pitch selection for 10, 12, 17, 20 cpi and proportional Control panel buttons active online and offline Mode selection: Print mode/Menu mode Print mode buttons including Line Feed, Form Feed, Park (paper parking), and TOF/Quiet (Top-of-form-setting/Quiet mode) Menu mode with customized print features that can be stored in nonvolatile printer memory

Physical Specs

Size: 15.7 in. W X 13.6 in. D X 4.6 in. Weight: 16 pounds Power requirements: - Voltage: 120 VAC, +5.5%, -15% 220/240 VAC, ±10% - Frequency: 50/60 Hz ±2% Temperature: 40° to 104° F (Operating), 14° to 109° F (Nonoperating) Relative humidity: 20% to 90% (Operating), 5% to 95% (Nonoperating) Audible Noise: 57 dBA (UTL mode), 52 dBA (Quiet mode)

Reliability

Mean-time-between failure (MTBF): 5,000 hours at 25% duty cycle Mean-time-to-repair (MTTR): 15 minutes