The TI 8930 (SKU: 10PR12D00 - P/N: 2557814-0001) is a new generation of high performance Omni 800 forms printer from Texas Instruments, designed for heavy-duty, reliable operation with the additional business printing features required for today's business application. The 8930 model offers the ability to print up to seven colors on continuous feed or cut sheet paper.

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) Cut-sheet multi-part forms/document insertion (Model 8930 only)

Automatic Sheet Feeder Option

Input Bin 1: - Capacity: 120 sheets (16 lbs) - Paper size: letter, legal, A4 - Paper direction: portrait or landscape Input Bin 2: - Capacity: 120 sheets (16 lbs) - Paper size: letter, legal, A4 - Paper direction: portrait or landscape Output Bin: - Capacity: 100 sheets (16 lbs)

Top Feed Inserter Option

Creates top feed paper path Designed for cut sheet documents that are too short for front insertion and forms with extra thick card stock backing Handles up to nine part cut sheet forms

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 Color ribbons-four color process mixable for seven colors (standard on Model 8930) Black ribbon (standard on Model 8920, accessory on Model 8930)

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 Automatic sheet feeder (8930 only) Top feed inserter (8930 only)

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: 1.5 million characters per color band (Color), 8.5 million characters (Black)