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Out
of a wide range of printer capabilities, only the
most important ones are specified below:
• The printer can produce durable
and legible prints on a variety of surfaces, including
smooth, porous and also uneven materials of irregular
shapes, such as cables, tubes, insulation sleeves,
furs or extruded packing,
• Non-contact print technology
is applied to avoid problems when printing on curved
surfaces (there is a significant distance of up to
30 mm between the print-head and object),
• The process of printing is
fully automated by the application of a photo-detector
for detecting objects to be labelled and of an optional
sensor for detecting travel rate of factory conveyors
if the conveyors run at varying speeds,
• The printer offers excellent
capabilities to print (at a given value of MPH):
texts on up to 4 lines, with the use of a variety
of matrices, in capital and small, boldfaced and rotated
letters, including the use of diacritical national
characters,
graphics with a set of graphics character either built-in
or created by a user with the application of a built-in
graphics processor,
bar codes of various types, in positive or negative,
with or without a numerical label,
• The time and date are available
and can be used to automatically update service life/period
of storage, with an option for coding date and time
elements, number objects (via incremental, decremental
and special counters) and produce dynamically changing
bar codes (via incremental or decremental counters),
• Data can be transferred from
a PC or external devices, such as automatic scales,
data from a bar code reader or data from a database,
• The printer’s operation
is fully automated and supported by a monitoring system
and gives a warning if operator intervention is required,
• It can work with any IBM-compatible
PC via the application-specific printer control program
EdGraf to be run under MS Windows®, via an RS-232
or RS-485 interface,
• There is an option for interconnecting
a number of EBS printers of various types into a network
and controlling them from one computer via InkNet,
network software running under MS Windows®, and
an RS-485 interface.
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