5100 ￜ FormsPro Series

Wide Carriage

The next generation FormsPro 5100 Series printers can solve your toughest printing problems.

With the FormsPro5100 Series you’ll print with greater legibility and unsurpassed reliability.

The FormsPro 5100 Series Features:

• With Fast draft speed up to 960 CPS, which prints a typical 1,000-character document in less than 5 seconds.

• Zero Tear for no wasted forms.

• FP5100 has a single set of tractors, while the FP5102 is set up with 2-tractors providing for loading of 2 different forms.

• Auto-Gap feature adjusts the print head according to form thickness.

• Store up to 8 different forms on the printer.

• Easy forms loading with straight-up paper path eliminates the problem of forms buckling and jamming

FormsPro 5100 series has a “Heavy Forms” setting that provides for increased readability on thick multi-part forms where legibility can be an issue.

Print Modes 5100/5102

• Fast Draft 960 cps

• Draft 800 cps

• NLQ 267 cps

• Graphics* up to 360 by 360 dpi

Character Matrix

• HSQ (12 x 8 half space matrix at 12.0 CPI)

• HSQ (12 x 10 half space matrix at 10.0 CPI)

• NLQ (24 x 18 half space matrix at 10.0 CPI)

• LQ (24 x 36 half space matrix at 10.0 CPI)

Printhead

• 24 needle (12 needle parallel array)

Character Sets

• HS Draft, Draft, Courier, Roman, Sans Serif, Prestiage, OCR-A/B, Orator, Souvenir, Gothic (All resident in NLQ and LQ). DLL is standard.

Character Spacing

• 5, 6, 7.5, 8.6, 10, 12, 15, 17.1, 20 cpi.

Line Length

• 13.6 inches (136 Columns @ 10 cpi)

Line Spacing

• 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 lpi

Paper Handling

• Tear Bar, Park Position, Push Tractor for straight path

• Auto-Gap Adjust for Forms thickness

• Fanfold, continuous forms, Multi-Part Forms

Operator Controls

• Online Mode: Tear Advance

• Offline Mode: Park, Form Feed/Line, Adjust for Tear position, Top of Form and Head Gap

Form Parameters

• Nonvolatile memory for eight forms, each designates: Paper Path, cpi, lpi, form length, lft/Rt Margin, Skip perf, Ignore Form Feed, Emulations, font

Operating Indicators

• 2 x 16 LCD for form selection, on/off line status and error descriptions.

Ribbon

• Cartridge, 20 million characters

Power Requirements

• Auto-switching Voltage (120 V or 230 V)

• Frequency (50 or 60 Hz)

• 70 Watt printing: 2 Watts Power Save

Paper Slew Rate

• 10 ips, slower rates with Font and Heavy Forms

Paper Width

• 3" to 16.5" width, 3" to 22" length

Paper Loading

• Front loading, Straight-through bottom feed

• Optional 2nd Front Tractor - FP5102

Multi-Part Forms

• Single tractor (FP5100): 1 + 6 copies

• Dual tractor (FP5102): 1 + 6 copies

• 0.025" max. thickness.

Graphics Density*

• up to 360 by 360 dpi

Audible Noise (Draft Mode)

• 54 dBA

Setup (Automatic Methods)

• Control Panel or internal Web Page

I/O Buffer

• 256k

Standard Interfaces

• Ethernet 10/100 Mbit, USB

Optional Interfaces

• Ethernet IPDS

• Serial/Parallel

Software Controls

• Epson LQ-2550, Epson LQ-2170, IBM Proprinter xI24e, MTPL, Genicom ANSI + Barcodes + LCPBarcodes

Physical Specifications

• (WxDxH) 24.5" x 17" x 11" 42 lbs.

• 19 kg

Reliability

• MTBF - 20,000

• Print Head Life: 750 million characters

• Warranty: One-year printer warranty *May be emulation dependent.