LX-300+ Impact Printer

The LX-300+ printer is very similar to the LX-300, only better. It's faster, more reliable, and accommodates more copies per multi-part form (1 original plus 4 copies). It is backward compatible with the LX-300, so there should be no problems using the current software. This table summarizes the basic specification differences for the two models.
- Function LX-300 LX-300+
- Printing speed
- Letter Quality (10 cpi) 44 cps (uni-d) 56 cps (bi-d)
- Draft (10 cpi) 220 cps 225 cps
- High speed draft
- (10 cpi) not available 300 cps
- (12 cpi) not available 337 cps
- Copy capability 1 + 3 1 + 4
- Printable area
- Top margin 5.3 mm (.2 in) 4.2 mm (.17 in)
- Bottom margin 9 mm (.35 in) 4.2 mm (.17 in)
- Built-in fonts Roman, Roman,
- Sans Serif Roman condensed
- Draft, Sans Serif,
- Draft condensed Sans Serif condensed,
- Draft, Draft condensed
- Input buffer 4 Kb 8 Kb
- Reliability
- MVBF 3 million lines 12 million lines
- (except print head)
- MTBF (POH) 25% duty cycle 4,000 hours 6,000 hours
- Interface Parallel Bidirectional Parallel
- supporting IEEE 1284
- parallel nibble mode
- Control code emulation EPSON ESC/P, EPSON ESC/P,
- IBM (r) 2380 IBM 2380 PLUS
- Bar code fonts none 8 fonts
- Character set tables 9 13
- Paper feed speed 79 ms/line 80 ms/line
- at 1/6-inch at 1/6-inch
- line spacing, line spacing,
- intermittent intermittent
- 2.78 inches/second, 3 inches/second,
- continuous continuous
- Single sheet paper
- width 7.2 to 10.1 inches 3.9 to 10.1 inches
- (182 to 257 mm), (100 to 257 mm),
- single sheets single sheets and
- multipart forms
- Energy saving mode No Yes
- Copy mode No Yes
- Quiet mode No Yes
- Physical dimensions
- Width 14.4 inches (366 mm) 14.4 inches (366 mm)
- Depth 10.8 inches (275 mm) 10.8 inches (275 mm)
- Height 5.2 inches (132 mm) 5.8 inches (147 mm)
- Weight 8.8 lb. (4.0 kg) 9.8 lb. (4.4 kg).