What is a stylus printer, what kind of 24-pin printer is it?

What is a stylus printer?

The printing principle of the stylus printer is to print a small dot on the print medium by printing a mechanical impact on the ribbon, which eventually makes up the desired object to be printed. The number of printed needles is the number of pins on the print head of the pointer printer. The number of printed needles directly determines the effect of the product printing and the speed of printing. At present, the most common product of the number of printed needles is 24 stitches, the early needle printer has a 9-pin, but the printing effect and speed are much inferior. And some high-end products have the use of double print head, but the number of pins per print head is also 24 stitches, but the speed of printing will be greatly improved.

User question: What kind of printer does the 24-pin printer belong to? Answer: Hit-type invoice printer.

Stylus Printer Terminology--Highest resolution

The highest resolution is the most basic technical specification of a printer. The resolution Unit is DPI (dot per inch), meaning how many points can be displayed in each square inch, and it is directly related to the quality of the text and image of the product output. The highest resolution refers to the maximum resolution that the product can achieve. A product can work at a lower-than-maximum resolution, but must not work at a higher-than-maximum resolution state.

The vertical and horizontal resolutions of the highest resolution (resolution) of the stylus printer are generally the same, unlike inkjet printers or laser printers, which may be different. So the pin printer is usually identified with a number, but the actual meaning is the vertical resolution and the horizontal resolution is the number.

If the resolution of a product is dpi, it means that the product's horizontal resolution and vertical resolution are dpi, that is, the maximum performance in a square inch area can reach points, vertical  points, a total of 129,600 points. The higher the resolution, the larger the number, which means the higher the quality of the product output.

and inkjet printers, laser printers, the highest resolution of the needle printer is much lower, the current more mainstream needle printer's highest resolution generally in 180dpi~dpi. But there are also some products with the highest resolution of 600dpi, such as Oki 5630SC, which means that the product in a square-inch area of the performance level of 600 points, vertical 600 points, a total of 36,000 points.

Stylus Printer Terminology--printing speed

Needle printer printing speed identification and inkjet printer, laser printer, not in PPM, but the use of "Word/sec", and some high-end products (many IBM products) are often used "line/minute" to identify. Such a logo is also at a glance, the number of "characters" or "lines" that can be printed within a unit of time, the faster the printer is.

However, it is necessary to note that the "Word/sec" to identify the product, if the product does not make a special note that many refers to the English characters, the size of the standard number 5th, but some products will also identify the character of the printing speed, the same size is also standard 5th Word. If you print a character larger than number 5th, the number of characters printed in the unit time will naturally decrease.

such as the most widely used two products Epson Lq-670k+t and lq-1600k4+ printing speed is 167 words/sec and 400 words/sec respectively. And an IBM 6400-d3p printing speed of 336 lines/min.

The printing width of the glossary of the stylus printer

The print width refers to the range of widths that the stylus printer can print. In general, refers to the needle printer can support the maximum width of printing, its logo and ink-jet printer, laser printer paper specifications to identify different, but the daily length of the unit mm to identify. Users should choose according to their own in the actual application needs to print the width of the choice. And for this problem, the user must consider clearly, so wide can print small, but the width of small is certainly unable to print large. For example, Epson Lq-670k+t has a maximum printing width of 304.8mm.

However, it should be noted that some products in addition to the upper limit of the printing width, and some also on the lower limit of the width of the printing also has provisions, if you need to print the width of the object is too small, the same can not print. such as Epson &nbs p; The print width of the lq-1600k4+ is 100-420mm, which means the width of the printed object cannot be greater than 420mm, not less than 100mm.

Needle Printer Terminology--types of paper

The type of paper refers to the type of paper that the printer can support. In addition to ordinary paper types, such as copy paper, envelopes, and continuous print, stylus printers can also support wax paper, bills, and multilayer carbon papers. and wax paper, bills and multilayer carbon, laser printers and inkjet printers do not have, this is the needle-type printer to leave a unique space, so that can be long-lasting.

Needle Printer terminology--paper thickness and paper-feeding method

Paper thickness

Paper thickness refers to the stylus printer can support, and the printing of the largest paper thickness, its unit is mm. Stylus printers are often used to print bills and reports, and bills and statements often require multiple copies of the print, so in the use of stylus printers, in addition to a single sheet of paper can not exceed the fixed thickness of the paper, multi-page overlay printing of the total thickness can not exceed the specified thickness of the paper.

In practical applications, as a result of the use of different, so the thickness of the printed paper is not the same, such as commercial invoices in the paper is generally thinner, the thickness of the paper and print thickness need not be too large; in the financial sector because of the need to print the Passbook and the bill of exchange thickness is larger, Therefore select should choose the paper feed thickness and printing thickness of the product.

But at present many products for the lower limit of the thickness of the paper also has certain provisions, if the paper is too thin, below the lower limit, the same in the process of printing will fail. such as Epson lq-1600k4+ paper thickness of 0.065-0.52mm, and Fujitsu DPK 8600E paper thickness is labeled 2.0mm, so more by some financial departments to choose Print Passbook.

Paper Feeding method

Paper means how the stylus printer can obtain the paper it needs to print. Although different brands of products for the use of paper is different, but we according to the needle-type printer for paper, you can divide it into two categories: the use of gear drag to supply continuous paper and through the principle of friction to supply a single sheet of paper. But most of the needle-type printers now have these two ways to feed. There are still some products, can be added "automatic single page feeder" to the single sheet of paper for automatic paper, so that printing more convenient and efficient.