The TI 8920 (SKU: 10PR11D00 - P/N: 2557812-0001) is a new generation of high performance Omni 800 forms printer from Texas Instruments. The 8900 series is designed for heavy-duty, reliable operation with the additional business printing features required for today's business application. The 8920 model is designed for businesses that need to print only continuous feed documents.

Printing Capabilities

User-replaceable 18-pin printhead Print speeds in characters per second (cps): - Rapid Print (7x9, 15 cpi only) : 600 cps - Rapid Print (7x9, 12 cpi only) : 480 cps - Draft (9x9) : 400 cps - Text (15x9) : 240 cps - Letter Quality (32 x 18) : 100 cps Print pitches in characters per inch (cpi): 5.0, 6.0, 7.5, 8.3, 8.6, 10.0, 12.0, 15.0, 16.7, 17.1 Three, four, six or eight lines per inch (Ipi) Software selectable bold, emphasized, italic, auto underline and expanded character printing True descenders, superscripts, subscripts and underline Text and graphics printed in up to seven colors, including black

Control Panel

Two line by sixteen character liquid-crystal display (LCD) Three Powerkey function keys: F1, F2 and Select Operation keys: online, paper path selection, pitch, print quality, printer status, form feed, form align, clear error, printer setup/ test, select form and configure form Control Panel information can be displayed in the following languages: English, French, German and Spanish

Paper Handling

Straight paper path with heavy-duty tractor feed for continuous forms Zero tear-off Prints up to 6 part forms (standard mode) and up to 9 part forms (double strike mode) Automatic top-of-form alignment Z-Axis Control automatic form thickness adjustment Page Finder paper edge detection: top, left and right Forward and reverse line feeds and one-half line feeds Line feed rate of less than 27 milliseconds Paper advance of 16 inches per second (ips) for continuous forms Paper width from 3.0 to 15.0 inches Paper parking Print line of 13.6 inches (136 columns at 10 pitch)

Character Sets

Full ASCII 96-character set (U.S.), ISO 8859/1, IBM PC #1 and #2, Nordic PC, IBM Multinational and Epson Extended Graphics National Substitution Tables for: U.S. ASCII, German, Canadian French, Norwegian, English (U.K.), Finnish/Swedish, French, Spanish, Swiss, Netherlands, Italian and Japanese

Fonts

Resident fonts: Courier and Gothic Optional word processing fonts in ROM: Prestige Elite and Presentor Optional machine readable fonts: Bar code 3 of 9, Interleaved 2 of 5, OCR A and OCR B

Graphics

Raster graphics (all points addressable) Horizontal dot density 60, 72, 80, 90, 120, 144, and 240 dpi Vertical dot densities: 72, 144, and 216 dpi

Ribbons

Continuous loop cartridge ribbons Black ribbon (standard on Model 8920)

Interfaces

Serial EIA RS-232 with 7 or 8 data bits and XON/ XOFF, ETX/ACK, DTR & Pin 11 ready/busy flow control Industry standard parallel (Centronics) Standard 32K buffer Optional EIA RS-422 and current loop interfaces Optional Serial EIA RS-423 models

Emulations

Resident control codes include: TI 880, TI 855 (Qume/Epson), IBM Proprinter, Epson FX (Escape/P) and Epson JX color codes

Options

Printer stand Stand mounted paper basket Printer mounted paper basket

Physical Specs

Size: 25.4" wide by 13.0" deep by 11.1" high Weight: 52 pounds Power: power supply switchable for 120V or 240V Temperature: 41° to 104°F (Operating), -22° to 150°F (Non-operating) Relative Humidity: 10 to 90% (Operating), 5 to 95% (Non-operating) Altitude: 10,000 feet (Operating), 40,000 feet (Shipping carton)

Reliability

Mean-time-to-repair: 20 minutes Mean-time-between failures: 9000 hours (no duty cycle limitations) Printhead life: 500 million characters Machine life: 1.0 million pages Ribbon life: 8.5 million characters (Black)