Supplies And Accessories; Find Your Fx-80 A Safe Home - Epson FX-80 User Manual
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Supplies and Accessories
The following items may be purchased separately from your Epson
dealer:
Printer cable or interface kit. Each computer system has its own
way of connecting to a printer. Some need a cable only, others require
a cable and circuit board. The FX-80 printer uses the Centronics™
standard parallel interface scheme.
If
your system requires a serial
printer, you must purchase a serial board for the printer. Your Epson
dealer can supply you with a variety of interface boards and cables.
Printer paper. The FX-80 is designed to accommodate several types
and sizes of paper. Standard printer paper is 9Yz by ll-inch fanfold
paper (called continuous-feed) with Yz-inch tear-offs on each side for
the pin-feed holes; when the printout is torn down to size, or "burst," a
standard 8V2 by l1-inch page is left. The pin-feed mechanism handles
this type of paper. Single sheets of paper (without holes) are moved
through the printer by the friction feed mechanism. And continuous-
feed papers whose widths range between
4
and 8V2 inches (such as
mailing labels) are handled with an optional tractor-feed unit which
you may purchase from your Epson dealer.
You'll need a stack of paper for the sample programs in this manual.
Standard continuous-feed paper is recommended for these application
programs.
Tractor feeder (optional). The tractor-feed mechanism is necessary
only if you intend to print forms 8V2 or less inches wide-such as pin-
feed mailing labels or fanfold paper without removable perforations.
Roll paper holder (optional). This option holds continuous-feed pa-
per that is fed by the friction feeder.
Ribbon cartridge replacement. The expected life of a cartridge is
three million characters-(roughly 1,000 pages of text.)
Print head replacement. The expected life of a print head is one
hundred million characters.
Find Your FX-80 a Safe Home!
Naturally, your printer must be somewhere near the computer (the
length of the cable is the limiting factor), but there are other consider-
ations in finding a choice location for your computer/printer opera-
tion. For instance, you may want to find an electrical outlet that is not
controlled by a switch-since a switch may be accidentally shut off
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