Brother P-Touch QL650TD Label Printer
December 30, 2007
Brother, a prominent company in the UK has introduced a new label printer in the name Brother P-Touch QL650TD Label Printer. With attractive design and
stylish exterior coated with black, this new label printer serves you the needs of printing on small sheets like labels. The device is the perfect example of the latest technology integrated into a compact yet stylish device.
This new label printer is a black and white printer that uses direct thermal technology for printing. Labels or continuous forms can be used to print form this machine. The device supports a USB port with 4 PIN USB Type B interface and it also features a serial interface.
The media used in this new Brother Label printer can have a custom media size of 62 mm. The maximum printing width supported by the printer is 59 mm. With labels or continuous forms to print; it will support one full roll at a time that has a size of 6.2 cm.
This new Brother printer features an auto cutter and the Brother P-Touch QL650TD Label Printer needs wires to be connected to the system or the power. The display resolution of the printer is 2 liner x 15 characters. The fonts included in the printer are 5 x TrueType and 16 x barcode. The maximum printing resolution in black and white is 300 dpi and the print speed is up to 90 mm/sec. The various styles and effects supported are bold, normal, outline, shadow, italic, underline, 8 styles, frame, shadow light and surround. The barcodes that the device can print include the following:
• Code 39
• QR code
• EAN/JAN-8
• EAN/JAN-13
• UPC-A
• UPC-E
• Codabar
• Code 128
• PDF417
• ITF
The Brother P-Touch QL650TD Label Printer having a weight of 1.1 Kg supports both Mac and PC systems. It has a depth of 14.5 cm, a height of 19.6 cm and a width if 15.2 cm.
The system requirements for the printer to function efficiently include:
Windows 98SE/ME with a RAM of 64 MB and a HD capacity of 70 MB
Windows 2000/XP with a RAM of 128 MB and a HD capacity of 70 MB
The OS supported by the printer are:
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Apple MacOS X 10.1 or later
Epson TMU220 Impact Printer
December 19, 2007
Epson introduces Epson TMU220 Impact Printer with features like drop-in paper load, auto-cutter selection, 9-pin serial impact dot matrix, print speed up to
4.7 to 6 lps, 8KB user NV memory etc. This user-friendly device is available in the UK market which the potential to offer high quality printouts with huge speed. Make a trail on this brand to get fabulous printouts!
The components of Epson TMU220 Impact Printer are made of robust construction. Manufacturer offers a clamshell covers for additional protection of the device. Manufacturer has marketed the user-friendly device with the dimensions as 160 mm width, 248 mm depth and 133 mm height. It uses 9-pin serial impact dot matrix printing technology. Users can take prints up to the maximum font size as 7 x 9/9 x 9 and the device weighs just 4.9 kilo grams.
Users can make use of both 40/42 or 33/35 column capacity and 95 alphanumeric character set. You can print 128 x 12 graphic tables. It is possible to print 4.7 to 6 lps. You can use two distinct types of papers for printing. Type A paper comes with 76 x 83 mm diameter and Type B and D paper comes with 76 x 69.5 x 57.5 mm. Supportive paper thickness of the product is measured as 0.05 to 0.08 mm. But you can use paper with the maximum thickness up to 0.14 mm.
Copying functionality can be done with the support of device. Users can take one copy and you can load paper one by one. Epson TMU220 Impact Printer has come with a 40 bytes data buffer, 128 KB NV bit image and user NV memory 8 KB. It will require 31 watts power for proper functioning. The following are the available interfaces with the unit:
• RS232
• RS485
• Bidirectional Parallel
• USB
• Powered USB
• Ethernet
• IEEE802.11B
Panasonic KXP1150 Impact Printer Review
December 17, 2007
Impact printers are best for printing invoices and distinct models of these printers are available in the UK market. Panasonic KXP1150 Impact Printer is latest arrival from Panasonic manufacturing company. Users can get benefits like 240 cps maximum draft print speed, flat-belt tractor, 11.7” maximum paper width, bidirectional printing, less noise production and reliable printouts.
Manufacturer has made budget-friendly unit with compact dimensions like 17.1” width, 12.4” depth and 5.3” height and 10.6 lbs weight. Users can expect reliability up to 4000 hours Mean Time between Failures (MTBF) at the rate of 25% printing output. You can tolerate noise level up to 55 dBA. Manufacturer offers different buffer levels like 1, 8, 22 and 54 KB. Choose appropriate buffer levels according to your printing requirement.
Make use of Centronics parallel interface. Certain printers have been purposely designed for imitating leading printers as they come with much software’s. It is possible to emulate printers like Epson FX-850, IBM Proprinte Ill and Centronics parallel printers. You can use different type of paper specifications like continuous, single sheets, envelopes and carbon copies. Utilize maximum line feed time up to 100 milliseconds approximately.
Panasonic KXP1150 Impact Printer has the capability to offer bit image up to 240 x 216 dots per inch. Distinct character sets are listed as:
• 96 ASCII characters
• 96 italic ASCII characters
• 38 International characters -14 language sets
• Legal
• 158 IBM special characters
Users can get prints distinct number of characters per line like 40, 48, 60, 68, 80, 96, 120, 137 and 160 cpl.
Various printing sizes of the device have been listed as 5, 6, 7.5, 8.5, 10, 12, 15, 17 and 20.
The highest character matrix of the device has measured as 9 x 9 in draft mode and 18 x 18 in NLQ. Supportive letter quality fonts are:
• Courier
• Bold PS
• Roman
• Sans Serif
Available Printing Speeds:
• Micron (Draft) 240 cps and (NLQ) 32 cps
• Elite (Draft) 192 cps and (NLQ) 38 cps
• Pica (Draft) 160 cps and (NLQ) 32 cps
Other Features of Panasonic KXP1150 Impact Printer:
• 240 Characters Per Line in draft mode
• Flat-belt Push Tractor
• 11.7” maximum paper width
• Easy-to-use setup disk
• Energy Star compliancy
Epson LX1170 Impact Printer
December 15, 2007
Impact printers are more commonly known as dot matrix printers. They are very popular and have a lot of advantages to its list. Epson is a reputed manufacturer in the field of electronic devices and they have introduced the Epson LX1170 Impact Printer. Apart from impact printers they also manufacture laser as well as inkjet printers. The new LX1170 is a 9 pin monochrome dot matrix printer.
Compact in its size, this new impact printer comes with a width of 54.6 cm, a depth of 27.5 cm and a height of 16.3 cm. With a weight of just 6.3 Kg, this printer can be easily moved from one place to another and it makes the device more compact.
For using this Epson impact printer, your system should be using any of the following OS:
• Microsoft Windows NT 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
• Microsoft Windows 3.x/95/98
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
It will not support any other OS.
The connectivity options supported by this printer include:
• 1 x parallel - IEEE 1284 (EPP/ECP) - 36 PIN Centronics
• 1 x serial - RS-232C - 9 pin D-Sub (DB-9)
This new impact printer supports various print speeds. It can print up to 337 characters per second in fast draft mode at 12 cpi, up to 300 characters per second in fast draft mode at 10 cpi and up to 270 characters per second in draft mode at 12 cpi. The maximum print resolution of Epson LX1170 Impact Printer in black and white is 12 cpi x 12 cpi.
The maximum media size supported by the printer is 420 mm (A2) x 559 mm and the other supported media sizes are 364 x 420 mm and Roll (40.6 cm x 55.9 cm). The device can print on envelopes, labels, plain paper and also on continuous forms.
The cartridge duty cycle or the cartridge duty cycle of the printer is 400 million characters. The device also has an installed RAM of 8 KB. The fonts included in the printer are 8 x barcode and 4 x scalable. The barcodes supported are:
• Code 39
• EAN/JAN-8
• EAN/JAN-13
• UPC-A
• UPC-E
• Code 128
• Interleaved 2 of 5
• Postnet
Brother P-Touch QL550 Label printer
December 13, 2007
There are a range of printer models and printer types available in the market like laser printer, inkjet printer, impact printer each named after the technology used for printing. Printers are available to printer documents and also to take prints of photos. Recently, printers to take prints of labels have also been invented. Brother – a leading manufacturer of printer has recently introduced a new label printer named as Brother P-Touch QL550 Label printer. This printer allows you to take prints of labels in small size.
Specifications
This new label printer employs direct thermal monochrome printing technology in it. The key feature for this model of printer is auto cutter feature. Another remarkable feature of this label printer is the cutter, integrated in it. Being a wired device, the interface use to connect this printer to your PC is the USB port. For this printer to work perfectly fine, your system should be compatible with any of the following OS.
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional
The maximum media size supported by this printer is 62 mm and the media feeder is 1 roll with 6.2 cm with a total media capacity of just 1 roll. This new Brother Label printer can print with a maximum resolution of 300 dpi in black and white. The device allows you to print various bar codes like:
• Code 39
• ISBN
• QR code
• EAN/JAN-8
• EAN/JAN-13
• UPC-A
• UPC-E
• Codabar
• Code 128
• Interleaved 2 of 5
• Postnet
• PDF417
• Data Matrix
Dimensions
This new Brother direct thermal monochrome printer has a depth of 19.6 cm, a height of 15.2 cm, a width of 14.6 cm and the total weight of the model is just 1.3 Kg.
