Manesmann Tally Spirit 80 Dot Matrix Printer

Manesmann Tally Spirit 80 Dot Matrix Printer

The Spirit-80 is the latest entry from Mannesmann Tally, the people who brought you the MT-160 printer. The Spirit-80 is their low-end entry, with a list price of $399 with standard Centronics parallel interface.

While it is not in the same class as the MT-160, it is much less expensive and has many features of more expensive machines. Compared with other machines in its price range, the Spirit-80 looks very good indeed.

At a printhead speed of 80 cps, the unit is capable of multiple fonts in extended, normal, and compressed modes, including italics. In compressed mode, up to 142 columns are available. The unit can handle superscripts and subscripts, and has a graphics mode offering resolution of 640 dots per line.

The printer can accept continuous form or single sheet friction feed. Up to three carbon thickness can be supported. Mannesmann claims a mean time between failures of over 5 million lines (excluding printhead life). The printhead is rated at approximately 30 million characters.

A large part of the speed of a printer can be judged by the linefeed speed. The linefeed time of the Spirit-80 is approximately 0.02 seconds--very quick for a $400 machine.

No graphics duty cycle is imposed, but guidelines are provided within the documentation so that a user can create duty cycles for his own use. Under normal conditions, however, none are necessary.

 

Manesmann Tally Spirit 80 Dot Matrix Printer






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